Press Release
Obama Continues to Violate HydeNew Website Helps Healthcare Consumers Avoid Pro-Abortion Plans
A new website was unveiled today to address the appalling lack of transparency of abortion coverage in Obamacare by the Administration.
“Obamacareabortion.com is an extraordinarily useful new tool for healthcare consumers,” said Smith. “The Obama Administration’s cover-up of abortion insurance plans on the exchange is unnecessary, unacceptable and absolutely unconscionable. Consumers have a right to know. Abortion is not healthcare – it dismembers and chemically poisons defenseless unborn children and hurts women.” With “open season” beginning Nov. 15, the Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI) and Family Research Council (FRC) have been examining healthcare.gov and state-based exchanges for general information on abortion coverage and the accessibility of that information. Researchers from CLI and FRC and Smith, sponsor of the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act (HR 7), shared their findings to date and announce a new website, www.obamacareabortion.com. An extensive audit this summer by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released in September found that 1,036 Obamacare exchange plans covered elective abortion. GAO also found that separate billing of the abortion surcharge–required by the Affordable Care Act–is not being enforced and the abortion-funding premium is again in 2015 being illegally rolled into the total plan cost. Healthcare consumers are therefore buying health insurance with little or no knowledge that they are purchasing abortion-subsidizing plans. “On September 9, 2009 President Obama told lawmakers and the American public in a specially called joint session of Congress on healthcare reform that ‘under our plan, no federal dollars will be used to fund abortion,’” said Smith. “In an 11th hour ploy to garner a remnant of pro-life congressional Democrats absolutely needed for passage of Obamacare (the Affordable Care Act), the President issued an executive order on March 24, 2010 that said: ‘the Act maintains current Hyde Amendment restrictions governing abortion policy and extends those restrictions to newly created health insurance exchanges.’ Turns out that those ironclad promises made by the President himself are absolutely untrue, and ranks right up there with President Obama’s oft stated deception that if you like your health insurance plan you can keep it, dubbed Politifact’s 2013 ‘lie of the year.’” Click here to read Smith’s remarks. Smith was joined at the press conference with Arina Grossu from FRC; Genevieve Plaster from Charlotte Lozier Institute, and; Kerri Kupec, Alliance Defending Freedom. ### |