The lack of transparency on the subject of which plans in the Affordable Care Act cover abortions and related services has prompted pro-life leaders to develop a new website containing this information for consumers.
According to a statement from the Family Research Council, the new website was launched at a national news conference on the House Triangle yesterday afternoon. The lead researchers of the data presented in the site, experts at the Family Research Council (FRC) and the Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI), spoke at the event revealing their findings. They were joined by U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), lead sponsor of the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act.
The new site educates and informs site visitors on whether or not their own plans force them to pay for elective abortions.
“By launching ObamacareAbortion.com we are attempting to do what the Obama Administration has not been willing or able to do for the 2015 new enrollment,” said Arina Grossu, FRC’s Director of the Center for Human Dignity. “That is, to inform Americans about abortion coverage in Obamacare plans and expose the great difficulty in obtaining this information. As in 2014, the Obamacare exchange lacks transparency, often lacks abortion-free options for many Americans, and continues to fund coverage of elective abortion with taxpayer money. The Family Research Council and Charlotte Lozier Institute have done extensive research and are proud to launch our findings.”
Grossu went on to list some of the difficulties experienced when trying to discover if health care plans are covering abortion.
“It’s not right that Assurant Health and FirstCare Health Plans in Texas would not give out a link to their ‘internal’ document where they were obtaining their information, citing that they were not allowed to give it to the public. It’s not right that after multiple calls to United Healthcare in Rhode Island, we still don’t know if they cover abortion on demand or not because they keep transferring us to their Medicaid/Medicare office. . . ”
She went on to bemoan the fact that “people living in Hawaii, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Vermont will most likely not have access to one single plan that is abortion-free. In addition, people living in California, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, and Washington will have to wade through plans where most likely 90% or more cover elective abortion. So much for choice!”
The bottom line is that “people who sign up for plans with abortion on demand are paying for other people’s abortions under that plan through an abortion surcharge. Everyone, and I mean everyone, in all 50 states is being forced to subsidize others’ abortions through their taxpayer funds to the beat of $855 billion in the next 10 years. So much for no taxpayer funding of abortion.”
Because Obamacare violates the principles of the Hyde amendment ban on subsidizing abortion, and because Obamacare lacks transparency for Americans, “Congress must enact the Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act (H.R.3279) and the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act (H.R.7). The new Senate offers hope that these bills could become law. Now is the time. Let’s do this!” concluded Grossu.
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