Opponents of health care reform are claiming that the Senate health reform bill will force taxpayers to fund abortion. This just isn't true. Here you can learn about what's actually in the bill, read independent analysis of health care reform and abortion, and find out about the growing list of pro-life organizations that have endorsed the health reform plan.
Independent Experts on Health Care Reform and Abortion
- Memo from Professor Timothy Jost of the Washington and Lee School of Law analyzes abortion funding in the Senate health reform bill
http://blog.faithinpubliclife.org/Jost%20Analysis%20030510.pdf - Professor Jost responds to critiques from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
http://law.wlu.edu/faculty/facultydocuments/jost/Jost_Response_to_Bishops_3.14.10.pdf - Washington Post: Universal health care tends to cut the abortion rate
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/12/AR2010031202287.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
Pro-Life Support for the Senate Health Care Bill
- Associated Press: Catholic hospitals support health care bill
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100313/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_overhaul_abortion - Associated Press: Catholic nuns urge passage of Obama's health bill
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100317/ap_on_go_co/us_health_overhaul_catholic_nuns_1 - Baptist Press: Faith leaders say abortion provisions adequate in healthcare bill
http://www.abpnews.com/content/view/4927/53/
Independent Fact Checks on Health Care Reform and Abortion
- Politifact
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/mar/10/bart-stupak/stupak-says-every-enrollee-office-personnel-manage/ - MSNBC First Read
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2010/03/09/2222673.aspx - CBS News
http://cbs13.com/national/health.care.reform.2.1547260.html - The Hill
http://thehill.com/opinion/op-ed/86323-abortion-debate-must-not-stop-healthcare-reform - Politics Daily
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/03/11/the-senate-bill-funds-abortions-nope-and-its-more-pro-life-th/
High Risk Pools and Abortion Funding
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issues regulations banning abortion funding in state high-risk pools
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/07/29/insurance-americans-with-pre-existing-conditions - Politifact: Abortions in Pennsylvania paid for with federal dollars? Not so.
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2010/03/09/2222673.aspx
