The AP notices that the abortion industry is suddenly upset about health care:
Trying to head off more problems, the Health and Human Services Department announced last week the program will not cover abortions except in cases of rape, incest or when the motherโs life is in danger โ exceptions traditionally allowed under federal law.
Thatโs a more restrictive policy than will be generally applied under Obamaโs new health care law.
Starting in 2014, the overhaul will allow federally subsidized health insurance plans to cover abortions, but only if policyholders pay for coverage separately and the money is segregated from government funds.
The current program for the high-risk uninsured was also authorized by the health care law, as temporary help for the most vulnerable, until the big coverage expansion in 2014. But Congress didnโt spell out how to deal with abortion.
Abortion rights supporters say the Obama administrationโs restrictions go too far.
โWe didnโt expect that women would be treated differently here with regard to the high-risk insurance pool,โ said Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-choice America. โThis is inexplicable and wrongheaded to us, and it puts womenโs lives in jeopardy.โ
NARAL Pro-choice America knew what many a โpro-life Democratโ wouldnโt admit: There were no actual concessions granted Stupak and co. The health-care legislation signed into law in March didnโt prohibit abortion funding. HHS is now making the likes of NARAL nervous. And even the Associated Press seems to see through the Obamacare abortion lie.





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