Two opinion pieces published today hit the nail on the head when it comes to abortion and healthcare.
Four powerhouse pro-life leaders, Dr. Charmaine Yoest (AUL), Marjorie Dannenfelser (SBA List), Kristan Hawkins (Students for Life) and David Bereit (40 Days for Life), call out Planned Parenthood and the rest of the abortion industry in today’s Washington Times for actively trying to mislead the public on the merits of the Stupak Amendment:
Earlier this month, New York Democratic Rep. Nita Lowey claimed that the Stupak-Pitts Amendment “puts new restrictions on women’s access to abortion coverage in the private health insurance market even when they would pay premiums with their own money.” Just days later, PolitiFact.com issued an analysis and said her comments were “false.”
Planned Parenthood’s cover has been blown. Before the vote on Stupak-Pitts, there were no uproars from the abortion lobby about government funding of abortion in the health care bill. There were no send-your-legislator-a-hanger campaigns. Why? Because they were hoping this issue would slip under the radar and that the bill would pass without any specific exclusion of abortion, which would ensure that abortion would certainly be funded by the government.
Read the whole thing here: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jan/06/abortion-funding-fiight-far-from-over/.
And Kristan Hawkins has her own piece at CNSNews.com today as well talking about the Mikulski amendment that passed in the Senate that would provide government funding for “preventative healthcare.” Kristan makes the case that preventative healthcare would include abortion – and she has the knowledge to back it up.
As a mother of a son with cystic fibrosis, a genetic life-threatening disease, and pregnant with another son, who has a 25 percent chance of having the disease, I know the first “preventative” abortions will be performed on children diagnosed prenatally with incurable, expensive-to-treat genetic diseases.Already, over 90 percent of babies prenatally diagnosed with Downs Syndrome are aborted. That’s certainly a “preventative” service.
Kristan has become quite an expert on rationing of care in the healthcare bills and runs the website www.HealthcareForGunner.com to raise awareness.
See the full opinion piece here: http://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/article/59320
