Though many of us saw this coming, there was no preparing for the anger and sheer disgust that rises at the blatant hypocrisy of this administration with its latest actions. President Walking Eagle continues to live up to his name through the auspices of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, who is reportedly giving Pennsylvania $160 million to set up a new high-risk insurance pool that will cover any abortion that is legal in the state.
That means that YOUR tax dollars will now go directly to help fulfill someone else’s choice to abort their unborn child.
That means that for all his disdain towards those who tried so hard to keep the Hyde amendment intact in that farce progressive liberals call health care “reform”, the Executive Order penned to appease some in Congress to vote for turning over the health care industry to bureaucrats in the federal government isn’t worth the paper on which it was printed.
President Obama pledged that under his health care plan “no federal dollars will be used to fund abortions, and federal conscience laws will remain in place.”
The conservative Family Research Council says the $160 million in taxpayer funds for Pennsylvania is the first known instance of direct federal funding of abortions through the new high-risk insurance pools.
The abortion funding for pool participants validates the arguments pro-life groups made throughout the health care debate – that taxpayer dollars will fund abortions, said Tom McClusky, senior vice president of the Family Research Council’s political action arm.
“For our efforts to remove the bill’s abortion funding, we were called ‘deceivers’ by President Obama and ‘liars’ by his allies. Now we know who the true deceivers and liars really are,’ McClusky said.
“This action by the Obama Administration also exposes the worthlessness of President Obama’s Executive Order that supposedly would prevent federal funding of abortion, but which both sides, including Planned Parenthood, agreed was unenforceable.
McClusky noted that the new health care law also includes $12.5 billion for community health centers, and $6 billion for co-ops, both of which can fund abortions. And some people will use tax credits to help them pay for plans that cover abortion.
And some still wonder why there is such a “backlash” against the majority in Congress and those in this administration. Their lying can’t be demonstrated any more clearly than with this.