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Despite what P-BO and the rest of the liberal Dems have been saying – the fact remains that taxpayer funded abortions are covered under this monstrosity.

Health Care Issues: Paying for Abortions

Before I get in to some of the details – I will put it on record that I am anti-abortion – as if some of you hadn’t already figured that out.  I believe that all life is sacred – and especially the unborn that don’t have a voice.

HOWEVER – it is not my responsibility to tell another individual they can’t have an abortion.  My anti-abortion position comes from my religious and moral belief.  To me, abortion is outright murder.  Unfortunately, the SCOTUS has legalized this form of murder.  But, God is the real judge.  Those who have abortions and kill their unborn children will have to confront Him one day to plea their case.

Having said that – let’s move on – from the link above:

A look at key issues in the health care debate:

THE ISSUE: Would new health care legislation allow abortions to be funded with tax money?

THE POLITICS: Abortion opponents say proposed government-sponsored health insurance plans would change federal policy by paying for abortions in many cases. For years, a restriction in the law that governs Medicaid — health insurance for the poor — has barred federal funding of abortions except in cases of rape, incest and danger to the mother’s life. The proposed legislation would permit government-sponsored health plans, open to non-Medicaid patients, to cover abortions. In seeking a political compromise, a House version would require publicly sponsored plans to pay for abortions with private funds from customers’ premiums, not tax dollars. Critics call the requirement meaningless. They say public and private sources of insurance funding would essentially go into, and come out of, one big pot.

WHAT IT MEANS: Women with private insurance plans that cover abortion might be able to switch to a less-expensive public plan without losing that coverage. Anti-abortion activists would feel they’ve lost an important battle, as taxpayer funds mingle with some insurance plans that, one way or another, pay for abortions.

So – here’s the deal-i-o, this bill has no way of keeping private money from taxpayer money – as stated above – ergo – we taxpayers will be funding abortions.  For the 92% of us in this country that are religious – regardless of religious belief – we have a first amendment right to our belief.  I know that Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism all believe that abortion is immoral (I can’t say for the others, however, these alone represent a little more than 80% of the population – full breakdown is here).  As such, it would be a violation of our first amendment rights for our taxpayer dollars to fund these abortions.

I said earlier that it is not my place to tell someone they can’t have an abortion.  However, when MY tax dollars may potentially be funding those abortions – HELL YES I have a right and it is my place to tell you HELL NO you can’t have that abortion.  You made the mistake – you either pay for it yourself or you have the child.  I won’t pay for it.

Before you libbers jump all over me for that last statement – let’s look at the statistics – of the approximately 1.5 million abortions performed annually in the United States – only 7.2% of those are due to risk to maternal health (2.8%); risk to fetal health (3.3%), or other (includes incest and rape – 2.1%).  The remaining 92.8% are mistakes and the woman is using abortion as a form of birth control:

Wants to postpone childbearing:  25.5%

Wants no (more) children:  7.9%

Cannot afford a baby:  21.3%

Having a child will disrupt education or job: 10.8%

Has relationship problem or partner does not want pregnancy: 14.1%

Too young; parent(s) or other(s) object to pregnancy: 12.2%

I’m sorry – but these are not legitimate excuses for having an abortion. In every one of those cases those babies could have been put up for adoption to other families that so frightfully want children but are unable to. Abortions are selfish – and – I’m not going to pay for it. These provisions need to be stripped from any bill that even attempts to reform our health care system.