In today’s Washington Times, three days after AUL’s meeting with White House officials failed to give adequate reassurances that abortion funding would not be in the health care bill, an op-ed by AUL President & CEO Dr. Charmaine Yoest strikes to the core of the current debate: “Is Abortion Health Care, or Is it Not?”
The truth is that the health care packages under consideration do include abortion funding. Without a specific statutory amendment that includes an explicit ban on federal funding and coverage, we face health care reform that includes abortion.
Lost in the debate over whether or not abortion is “in there” – whether or not you can flip to a certain page and point to a particular clause related to abortion funding – is an understanding among political elites that this is a watershed battle over definition. It’s existential, if you will, and comes down to a very straightforward question: Is abortion health care, or is it not? …
Planned Parenthood and the abortion lobby define abortion as health care, as being morally equivalent to a tonsillectomy, and health care reform is their vehicle for imposing that view definitively with the full force of the federal government.
Learn more:
- Watch the recent TV appearances of Dr. Charmaine Yoest on Fox News and AUL Staff Counsel Mary Harned on CBN, each giving the inside story on their meeting last week at the White House.
- Read coverage of AUL’s White House meeting at FoxNews.com, the Washington Examiner, LifeSite, CBN.com’s Brody File, and LifeNews.
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How can any one be that stupid to think that “abortion/legal murder” is health care!
Abortion is not HEALTH CARE IT IS MURDER PURE AND SIMPLE.