Slippery Truth About Health Care Reforms and Elective Abortion Coverage

President Obama was gilding the lily when he declared that his healthcare reforms would not fund abortions with tax money, according to FactCheck.org. While the president's statement is technically correct, it is nevertheless true that the new system would collect non-tax "insurance" contributions from employers to fund abortion on demand.

Abortion 'explicitly' covered under ObamaCare
by Pete Chagnon
OneNewsNow

FactCheck.org says the National Right to Life Committee is correct concerning abortion provisions in ObamaCare.

According to FactCheck.org, President Barack Obama was right to a "limited extent" when he stated that his healthcare reform plan does not allow for "government-funded abortion." Although FactCheck.org states that under H.R. 3200 federal money is not used to fund abortion, under the public insurance option there is a provision for abortion coverage -- as well as provisions for government-subsidized public and private insurance plans that cover what are described as "reproductive services."

Douglas Johnson, legislative director for the Washington, DC-based National Right to Life, says the president purposely neglected to tell the whole story.

"Well, President Obama really brazenly misrepresented the abortion-related components of this bill that his congressional allies have crafted and that his staff had a role in," Johnson contends.

"As the bill was amended by the House Energy and Commerce Committee on July 30, it includes something called the Capps amendment which was put in by the pro-abortion side. And it explicitly authorizes the government plan to cover all elective abortions -- explicitly."

The Capps amendment has proposed by Congresswoman Lois Capps (D-California) as a supposed "compromise" on the abortion issue as it relates to healthcare reform. Johnson doubts Capps was trying to limit abortion funding, telling LifeNews.com that the California Democrat has never cast a pro-life vote in her 11+ years in Congress.

Johnson believes Obama, in trying to squelch discussion on abortion coverage, tried to hide behind a technical distinction between tax funds and government-collected premiums -- both of which, the pro-life activist notes, are collected and spent by government agencies.

Over-the-Counter Abortifacient Wreaks Havoc on Teens' Menstrual Cycles

RU-486 has become, as predicted, a form of routine contraception. It's available "over the counter," and is wreaking havoc on young women's menstrual cycles, according to a Times of India report cited here by LifeSiteNews.com.

LifeSiteNews.com
Over-the-Counter Abortion Pills Lead to Menstrual Complications
By Patrick B. Craine

LifeSiteNews.com - Unsupervised over-the-counter use of 'emergency' contraceptive and abortive pills is leading to menstrual problems, reports The Times of India.

The paper reports that gynecologists are encountering increased incidents of menstrual problems among young women who are arbitrarily and repeatedly using these pills as regular forms of contraception.

"They check dosage on the internet, do their own calculations. Not understanding the consequences, they land up with incomplete abortions. They are scared about the uncontrollable bleeding, or not getting their periods," said Dr. Shilpi Tiwari to The Times of India. He also said that more than half of her clients are between 18 and their early 20s, all with pill-related complications.

In a 2002 Medscape interview, American 'emergency' contraception proponent
Dr. David Grimes asserted that easier access to these drugs would not result in greater reliance upon them as regular birth control.

"There are four studies which suggest that advance access to EC does not prevent use of regular birth control," he said. "When legalized abortion became available we heard the same argument, but going through an induced abortion actually encourages women to use birth control methods subsequently."

Grimes admitted the danger of such drugs to a woman's menstrual cycle. "Repeated use of EC wreaks havoc on a woman's cycle, so the resulting menstrual chaos acts as a powerful deterrent to using this method too often," he said.

Contrary to Grimes' assertions, however, popular morning-after pills are being used as casual contraception, the paper says.

"When you're with your boyfriend, you don't want to use condoms," says 21-year-old D Bina. Asked whether there are complications, she said, "At times. But you prefer sex
without a condom. ... Some put on weight, others don't feel right. But the body gets used to it."

Morning-after pills such as Plan B and I-Pill claim to be effective in preventing pregnancy for up to 72 hours; however, if fertilization has already occurred, they are abortifacient, preventing the newly-formed child from implanting in its mother's womb.

RU-486, on the other hand, known as 'chemical abortion', can be effective in killing an unborn child up to 7 weeks. According to some reports, however, this drug has a 'failure' rate of 15%, normally resulting, then, in a surgical abortion.

See related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:

Abortion Pill not 'Safe' Despite Media Spin - Study Suggests Pill as
Dangerous As Surgical Abortion
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/aug/07081601.html

Canadian Physicians Group Warns of Dangers of "Morning After Pill"
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2004/may/04052005.html