[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 17833]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               TAXPAYER DOLLARS SHOULD NOT FUND ABORTIONS

  (Mr. FLEMING asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. FLEMING. Mr. Speaker, as it stands now, the Democrat health plan 
equals taxpayer-funded abortions. Let me repeat that. As it stands now, 
the Democrat health plan equals taxpayer-funded abortions.
  If unamended, the Obama health plan restructuring will be the most 
massive abortion expansion since Roe v. Wade and every insurance 
premium payer and every taxpayer will be forced to pay for every 
abortion. The taking of innocent life is not health care. I know; I'm a 
physician. Yet, without an abortion exclusion, this reform bill will be 
the platform for thrusting abortion into every aspect of health care in 
this country.
  The Secretary of HHS and the so-called Benefits Advisory Committee 
will determine the specific mandated services. Abortion will be 
included in the minimum benefits unless it is excluded, and the 
Democrats refuse to do that.
  This bill does an end run on current abortion funding restrictions by 
containing language that both authorizes and appropriates.

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