About 65,000 Americans have signed a national petition in just one week calling on Congress to exclude abortion as a mandatory health benefit as part of any health care legislation being considered, The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) announced yesterday, according to LifeSiteNews. The ACLJ, which specializes in constitutional law, is providing legal analysis to House members urging them to reject the abortion mandate.
" When it comes to mandatory health benefits, Americans don't want their tax dollars used - or force private insurance plans - to fund abortion. We will continue to push for a legislative remedy that explicitly excludes abortion from any government mandated coverage or taxpayer funded health plan." said Jay Sekulow, Chief Counsel of the ACL.
"The two central 'health care reform' bills currently moving in Congress … each contain provisions that would, if enacted, represent the greatest expansion of abortion since the Supreme Court handed down its Roe v. Wade ruling legalising abortion in 1973," explained US National Right to Life Committee Federal Legislation Director Douglas Johnson in LifeSiteNews’ July 13 bulletin.
"These bills contain multiple provisions that would result in federally mandated insurance coverage of abortion on demand, massive federal subsidies for abortion, mandated creation of many new abortion clinics, and nullification of at least some state limitations on abortion."
Unlike Australia, abortions in the US are not yet funded by taxpayers. With over 50% of Americans now calling themselves ‘pro life’, Obama’s pro-abortion legislation is likely to meet with a lot more opposition over the coming months.
Australian taxpayers paid out over $10.5 million in Medicare-subsidised abortions in 2003.
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