Do you remember a few months ago when we were promised by everyone on the left that no tax dollars would be used to fund abortions under ObamaCare? President Obama even issued an Executive Order to make the abortion funding ban clear. Well, Obama’s Executive Order doesn’t seem to have much weight and the federal dollars are already being doled out to provide tax-payer funded abortions.
Boehner and other Republicans point to reports that the Health and Human Services Department is giving Pennsylvania $160 million to set up a new high-risk insurance pool that will cover any abortion that is legal in the state.
“The fact that the high-risk pool insurance program in Pennsylvania will use federal taxpayer dollars to fund abortions is unconscionable,” Boehner said in a statement on Tuesday.
The President’s response? Surprise surprise, he doesn’t have one.
“Just last month at the White House, I asked President Obama to provide the American people with a progress report on the implementation of his Executive Order, which purports to ban taxpayer-funding of abortions. Unfortunately, the President provided no information, and the American people are still waiting for answers.”
Give Obama a few days for this story to hit critical mass and then come out with some nonsensical untrue statement. But at least HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is talking, right?
In a May 13 letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Boehner asked if her department has provided guidance to the states on how to implement the president’s Executive Order on abortion funding. Boehner also asked Sebelius if the new federal high-risk pools would exclude abortion coverage.
He says his questions remain unanswered.
Stooge and Lame-Duck Congressman Bart Stupak was unavailable for comment.
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