Obama Executive Order on Abortion Funding

Today, the President announced that he will be issuing an executive order after the passage of the health insurance reform law that will reaffirm its consistency with longstanding restrictions on the use of federal funds for abortion.

While the legislation as written maintains current law, the executive order provides additional safeguards to ensure that the status quo is upheld and enforced, and that the health care legislation’s restrictions against the public funding of abortions cannot be circumvented.

The President has said from the start that this health insurance reform should not be the forum to upset longstanding precedent. The health care legislation and this executive order are consistent with this principle.

The President is grateful for the tireless efforts of leaders on both sides of this issue to craft a consensus approach that allows the bill to move forward.

“...By working with my Pro-Life colleagues and with Speaker Pelosi, I was able to secure an up or down vote on my amendment with regards to federal funding of abortion. My amendment does one very simple thing: It applies current law (the Hyde Amendment), which bars federal funding for abortion except in the case of rape, incest or life of the mother, to the health care reform bill. The Hyde Amendment has been the law of the land on federal funding of abortion since 1977 and applies to all other federally-funded health care programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, the VA and the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP). My amendment is not new federal abortion policy but continues current law.

My amendment has no impact on those individuals with private insurance who do not receive affordability credits and in no way prohibits any individual from purchasing a supplemental abortion coverage policy. Health insurance companies can still offer policies that cover abortion; insurance companies just can’t sell those policies to individuals using affordability credits to pay for the policy. My amendment was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives by a vote of 240 to 194 on November 7, 2009 and was included in H.R. 3962. Without the votes of 41 Democratic Pro-Life supporters of my amendment, health care reform never would have passed the U.S. House of Representatives...” Bart Stupak

Stupak speaking with Greta on Fox now.

“The President has said from the start that this health insurance reform should not be the forum to upset longstanding precedent.”

Really? And what of the “long standing precedent” of individual rights and the right to be free from coercion?

Here we have a MARXIST turning our republic into a socialist dictatorship, yet stating that he does not desire to “upset longstanding precedent” ... WHAT A LOAD OF ORWELLIAN SH*T.

Let me remind you, Mr. “President,” there’s also a long standing precedent to hang traitors. You may have your hour of power, but God will have is day of judgment... and yours may be swift in coming, sir.

“when the life of the woman would be endangered”

Just watch how many women’s lives will now be “endangered” by having a mental illness CAUSED by a child that is not wanted. I ‘ve seen that excuse before. After all, we wouldn’t want to “punish” women with a child, would we?

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