Published: November 07, 2009 07:14 pm      

Health bill should not require taxpayers to pay for abortions

I thought that the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) was not going to happen and that taxpayers would not be forced to fund abortions.

However, the abortion lobby has found a way to get the cornerstone issues of FOCA passed — they got taxpayers to fund abortions through the health care bills.

There are no provisions that explicitly station abortions should not be funded by taxpayers in the health care bill. That means that you and I will be paying for abortions.

Not only that but FOCA mandated abortion to be covered under all healthcare plans. Guess what is in the health care bill now? That’s right — abortion is now a mandate and must be covered by all health insurance plans.

I don’t want to be forced to subsidize abortions and I don’t think the government has the right to force its citizens to pay for such a procedure. Tell Congress to vote against the health care bill if specific language is not included that makes stops taxpayers from funding abortions.

Ronald Moomaw

Ridgeley, W.Va.