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To: ArrogantBustard
Wow, this story is completely bogus then. This group represents no one except a bunch of secular 'nuns' who seem to be socialists first, Catholics twenty-third.

Pathetic.

I posted this to my FaceBook page. People need to know that this story is garbage.
30 posted on 03/17/2010 1:58:00 PM PDT by Antoninus (It's a degenerate society where dogs have more legal rights than unborn babies.)
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Okay here is why Stupak is against the bill. I think. It is a fancy way of financing abortions. Just don't co mingle funds from feds and private pay. It will be okay to use our money to fund abortions unless each state passes a law against it. Right, that is not going to happen in Ca.

Obama and Reid is mandating insurance companies pay for abortions and use private citizens pay to circumvent the Hyde amendment.

Page 2069 through Page 2078 of the Senate-passed bill. It says, "If a qualified plan provides [abortion] coverage … the issuer of the plan shall not use any amount attributable to [health reform's government-funding mechanisms] for purposes of paying for such services."

(This is on Page 2072.) That seems pretty straightforward. No government funding for abortions. (Except in the case of rape, incest, or a threat to the mother's life—the same exceptions granted under current law.) If a health insurer selling through the exchanges wishes to offer abortion coverage—the federal government may not require it to do so, and the state where the exchange is located may (the bill states) pass a law forbidding it to do so—then the insurer must collect from each enrollee (regardless of sex or age) a separate payment to cover abortion. The insurer must keep this pool of money separate to ensure it won't be commingled with so much as a nickel of government subsidy. (This is on Pages 2072-2074.)

Anyone who enrolls through the exchange in a health plan that covers abortions must pay a nominal sum (defined on Page 125 of the bill as not less than "$1 per enrollee, per month") into the specially segregated abortion fund. (Under the Senate bill, every insurance exchange must offer at least one abortion-free health plan.)

31 posted on 03/17/2010 2:32:36 PM PDT by OafOfOffice (W.C:Socialism:Philosophy of failure,creed of ignorance,gospel of envy,the equal sharing of misery)
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