Ahead of March for Life, Congress Moves Legislation Forward to End Taxpayer Funding for Abortion
(CNSNews.com) – Both the House and the Senate are moving legislation forward this week that would end all taxpayer funding for abortion, including those paid for through some insurance plans that are part of the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare.
“The ‘No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act,’ or S. 184 [1], would establish a permanent, government-wide prohibition of taxpayer funding for abortion,” a press release distributed to the media said. “Similar policies, such as the Hyde Amendment, currently require annual passage and do not apply to Obamacare.”
The legislation has a provision to make certain all plans offered through Obamacare exchanges must disclose whether it includes coverage of elective abortion procedures, as well as the abortion surcharge embedded into abortion-covering plans, the press release said.
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