In the wake of misleading news coverage from the Associated Press and others claiming an amendment passed Friday by a House committee will protect taxpayers from paying for abortion, Iowa Republican Congressman Steve King set the record straight in an online interview today. Asked by blogger John Hawkins if Americans’ tax dollars will fund abortion, he responds:
The way it stands today, that answer is, “yes,” and the history of abortion funding from the federal government has been this: since 1973, the federal government has funded abortions unless there was an explicit prohibition written into the law. We have prohibited that in any number of cases, but this healthcare bill that’s being rolled out by the Democrats and the House, by any information I have of what’s in it, would fund abortion because there is no explicit prohibition.
This is exactly the point Americans United for Life’s legal experts make in the talking points on our informational site KeepAbortionOutOfHealthCare.com. Unless it is explicitly prohibited from a health care reform proposal, any proposal passed by Congress will be required by the federal courts, under the governing precedent, to include abortion within the mandatory categories of care.
TAKE ACTION: Sign the petition at KeepAbortionOutOfHealthCare.com to make your voice heard, and follow the links on the site to read pro-life legal analysis of the current health care reform proposals.
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