President Obama "Lies" on Abortion Funding During Health Care Reform Speech
- Steve Ertelt - LifeNews.com
- Sep 11, 2009
In his address to a joint session of Congress last night, Obama said "One more misunderstanding I want to clear up -- under our plan, no federal dollars will be used to fund abortions."
But Douglas Johnson, the legislative director for the National Right to Life Committee, says federal dollars will definitely pay for abortions under HR 3200 and the Kennedy bill in the Senate.
"Barack Obama needs to learn that the mere repetition of a verbal formula does not change reality," he told LifeNews.com late Thursday.
"The reality is that the Obama-backed House bill would explicitly authorize the federal government insurance plan to pay for elective abortions and would explicitly authorize subsidies for private abortion insurance -- and all with federal dollars, which are the only kind of dollars that the federal government can spend," he said.
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