President Obama has stated emphatically that
the health care reform proposals being considered by Congress will not allow
for government funding of abortion. But I think the most convincing evidence
that the president might be being less than candid is not to be found in the
detailed language of the legislation but in the fact that the pro-abortion
movement has been completely silent on the issue. Does anyone think for a
minute that groups like Planned Parenthood and the National Abortion and
Reproductive Rights Action League (NARAL) would not be clamoring for changes in
these bills if they–Obama supporters all–actually believed the President?
Clearly these groups have no doubt that all of these bills in the House and
Senate, either directly or indirectly through government subsidized insurance
premiums, would allow for the government funding of abortions. It is only when
they start opposing these bills that we can truly believe that money coming
from the US Treasury will not be finding its way into the pockets of
abortionists.
