By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Anyone needing proof that ObamaCare will use taxpayer money to fund abortion can now look to the state of Pennsylvania where the Obama Administration has just agreed to give the state $160 million to set up a new "high-risk" insurance program that will cover any abortion that is legal in Pennsylvania.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The state of Louisiana has become the fourth state to opt out of the abortion funding mandated by ObamaCare, with lawmakers in both the House and Senate passing the measure by wide margins.
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by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The Obama Administration is claiming that the establishment of a new $25 million fund to help pregnant teens is the fulfillment of his promise to seek "common ground" on the abortion debate during his speech at the University of Notre Dame, even though other initiatives promise to pour billions into contraception and abortion programs.
LifeSiteNews.com is reporting that the Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships sent an e-mail to nonprofit organizations last Friday announcing that it would begin accepting applications for a $25 million fund that it praised as "another critical step in the President's vision for common ground."
"It was only a year ago that President Obama gave a seminal speech at Notre Dame urging our nation to find common ground on the issue of abortion and unintended pregnancies," said the email. "The Pregnancy Assistance Fund is a competitive grant program established by the Affordable Care Act to assist women who have decided to carry their pregnancies to term and those who are parenting."
The fund, which is part of ObamaCare, will make $25 million available to states to support pregnant and parenting teens. However, as LifeSite points out, another section of the same legislation makes billions of taxpayer funds available to abortion providers through the Community Health Centers program.
There was no mention of abortion or other "family planning" programs in the e-mail.
During an interview with CNN, Democrats for Life executive director Kristen Day praised the initiative. "Pro-life and pro-choice people have gotten behind it, so it's a good first step at reducing abortion and providing support for healthier babes and mothers," she said.
Day said that the fund promised a political advantage to Democrats, who have "been working on common ground around abortion for a long time because we want to take it away as a wedge issue."
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A new lawsuit filed on behalf of five U.S. citizens is charging that the insurance mandate included in the new health care reform bill violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 by forcing them to buy insurance from companies whose tenets violate their religious beliefs.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Thus far, several states are considering, or already planning, to include ballot initiatives that will give citizens a chance to weigh in on health care reform this November, a move that is expected to boost voter turnout at the polls.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In response to the first of many lawsuits challenging ObamaCare, the government has filed a motion asking a federal judge in Virginia to dismiss the state’s suit alleging that Congress oversteps its constitutional bounds in the new health care reform law.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In what some are calling a harbinger of things to come now that ObamaCare is law, a caseworker for the Department of Human Services (DHS) in Pennsylvania is being accused of pressuring a Philadelphia teen into a late-term abortion by threatening to take away her toddler and the unborn child should she decide to go through with the pregnancy.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Almost 60 lawmakers are co-sponsoring a new bill designed to counter a mandate in ObamaCare that will provide taxpayer funding of abortions should Congress ever fail to pass the Hyde Amendment.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In anticipation of the abortion-funding provisions in the new health care reform law, dozens of states are either passing – or planning to pass – new restrictions on abortion.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
An Irish Catholic doctor practicing Church-sanctioned Napro Technology in a Catholic hospital was hauled before a medical board for refusing to offer fertility treatments to an unmarried couple, a case that could be a portend of things to come in the U.S. due to inadequate conscience protections in the recently passed ObamaCare.
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