[or Perform] Abortions
Tucked away in the massive heathcare bill that no one seems to have time to read is a provision that mandates all insurance would have to cover abortions. An attempt to add conscience exclusions for providers failed in committee.
House and Senate committees continue to work out the details of the health care reform bills and, thus far, every effort to explicitly remove the abortion coverage and include conscience protections for health care workers has been shot down.
We now expect the vote on health care to come in September.
Let's be honest, we know who's paying big money and worked hard to elect this president. Still, conscience protection has always been a fundamental part of American life. Members of the Society of Friends and Mennonites are excluded from military service because of their beliefs and that is no different from a nurse holding the view that preborn life is not to be takeen.
Forcing those who object on moral or ethical grounds to fund and perform abortions goes against everything fundamentally American.
Pro-life citizens give a lot of money and time to support alternatives to abortion. Pregnancy help centers are an amazing resource and provide pre-natal care, counselling, resources and support to those facing unexpected pregnancies. It is not only immoral, but insulting to suggest that they need to be forced to support something that is against their beliefs.
Dogwood blossoms.
Update:
Randy Alcorn Writes About The Bill [click to read] and makes a number of important points about this legislation.
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