Abortion Industry Bailout Act
of 2009
By Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ)
Part Two of Two
Editor's note. These remarks were prepared for a
press conference held yesterday.
When the legislative text of
ObamaCare was finally revealed a few weeks ago,
it became absolutely clear that Congress had
before it yet another bailout proposal.
This bailout, however, was not
for an industry that makes loans to business or
to big car manufacturers, but a massive bailout
to a nefarious industry that systematically
dismembers and chemically poisons to death
innocent children, all while inflicting serious,
often irreparable harm on women.
ObamaCare is the Abortion
Industry Bailout Act of 2009.
ObamaCare will force every
taxpayer and every insurance premium payer to
pay for every abortion in America.
Huge new government subsidies
for abortion under the so-called "public option"
will be coupled with massive taxpayer subsidies
for abortion coverage through affordability
credits. This enormous funding stream, combined
with abortion mandates in private insurance will
cause the number of dead babies and wounded
mothers to skyrocket.
On April 2, Secretary Sebelius
said "most private plans do not cover abortion
services except in limited instances."
That radically changes under
the Obamacare abortion mandates.
The legislation vests new,
sweeping powers in an Obama-appointed committee
tasked with establishing "essential health
benefits" that all plans must include. NARAL's
president said, "if indeed we can advance a
panel or commission, then I'm very optimistic
about reproductive health care being part of the
entire package."
Unless the legislation
explicitly excludes abortion by amendment,
abortion will be forced on every health plan in
America.
On Sunday, in a John King CNN
interview, Speaker Pelosi was asked "Should the
public option cover abortions?"
In the course of a minute, the
Speaker said four times "that's not the issue."
With all due respect for the
Speaker of the House, this IS the issue. Speaker
Pelosi also said "that people will be treated
the same in a public option as they are in a
private option…"and that we need to be
"respectful of full reproductive health care..."
Full reproductive health care
is a euphemism for abortion on demand. In 2007,
Mr. Obama told Planned Parenthood that
"reproductive care is essential care…insurers
are going to have to abide by the same rules by
providing comprehensive care, including
reproductive care…" An Obama spokesman told the
Chicago Tribune this meant abortion.
On April 22, in response to
question I posed, Secretary Clinton said
'reproductive health includes access to
abortion."
Pro-abortion organizations
believe they are on the verge of the biggest
expansion of abortion ever.
The President of the Religious
Coalition for Reproductive Choice said, "Let
there be no mistake, basic healthcare includes
abortion service."
Some in Congress are now
trying to cobble together a phony "compromise"
on abortion mandates, and abortion funding.
While we have yet to see the language, please
beware.
If past experience is any
guide, if past is prologue, as it so often is,
we need to be exceedingly wary and alert
concerning bogus legislative language that
purports to be pro-life.
If we lose this fight or
accept inferior, ineffective legislative
language, millions of babies--who otherwise
would have been born--will die and millions of
mothers will be wounded.
Again, passing airtight
language is paramount.
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