[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 20]
[House]
[Page 26750]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    NO PUBLIC FUNDING FOR ABORTIONS

  (Mr. INGLIS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. INGLIS. Madam Speaker, there are many things wrong with the 
Pelosi health care bill. Some of them rise to moral issues, and 
certainly the moral issue that I am focused on right now is the 
abortion issue.
  There are a lot of people who want to say, Well, there won't be 
public funds used for abortion, but really, please, when we debate this 
bill, let's not insult the intelligence of other Members of Congress or 
of the American people. There is a clear commingling of resources. If 
you set up a public option and then there is money flowing into that 
from taxpayers, that money will ultimately find its way to abortion 
services.
  So what we need in order to avoid that problem that many of us have 
of funding abortions with taxpayer money is an expressed prohibition on 
abortion services. There needs to be a bright line in this bill saying 
there will be no support for abortion services anywhere in the bill, 
similar to the Hyde amendment in HHS appropriations.
  So, Madam Speaker, this is something that needs to be done in order 
to make it clear and to avoid this moral challenge.

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