New Must-Reads

THREE NEW ITEMS ON PRESIDENT OBAMA’S

PRO-ABORTION HEALTH CARE AGENDA

 

On September 10, House Republican Leader John Boehner (Oh.) issued a release in which he referred to Barack Obama’s 2007 appearance before the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, the occasion on which Obama said that “reproductive care” would be “at the heart” of his health plan and that his public plan “will provide all essential services, including reproductive services.” 

 

As Mr. Boehner put it, “During his quest for the presidency, now-President Obama declared that everyone deserves access to reproductive health care that includes abortion, and vowed that this ‘right’ would be at the heart of his health care reform plan if elected president.” 

 

Mr. Boehner’s statement drew the attention of Politifact, the Pulitzer Prize-winning website (a project of the St. Petersburg Times) that scrutinizes the assertions of policymakers and advocacy groups about policy issues.  Politifact’s “Truth-O-Meter” concluded that Mr. Boehner’s statement was “TRUE.”  The Politifact review is here.

 

Also, note that FactCheck.org on September 10 posted a brief, but helpful, commentary on President Obama’s claim, during his September 9 speech to Congress, that his plan would not use “federal dollars” for abortions.  The FactCheck commentary is here:

http://www.factcheck.org/2009/09/obamas-health-care-speech/

 

On September 9, National Review Online published my rebuttal to a column by Ruth Marcus of the Washington Post, in which Marcus extolled, but rather mischaracterized, the Capps-Waxman Amendment to H.R. 3200.

 

Douglas Johnson
Legislative Director
National Right to Life Committee
512-10th Street, Northwest
Washington, D.C. 20004
202-626-8820

For an up-to-date status report on the fight
over abortion in the Obama health care bills,
with tools for action:
http://nrlactioncenter.com/

To obtain key documents about the abortion mandates
and abortion subsidies in the Obama health care bills: http://www.nrlc.org/AHC/Index.html