It appears Rep. Joe Wilson was right when he said President Obama lied during his speech promoting his health care plan.
"One more misunderstanding I want to clear up," he said, adding "No federal dollars will be used to fund abortions, and conscience laws will remain in place."
But that was then.
On Tuesday, the President had a different message.
CNS News reported:
The proposed regulation, designed to implement part of Obamacare, will require all private health plans in the United States to cover sterilizations and all FDA-approved contraceptives--including those that cause abortions—without charging any fees or co-pay. These regulations were drawn to implement a provision in Obama’s health-care law that calls for all health-care plans to cover “preventive services.”
Combined with Obamacare’s mandate that all individuals must buy health insurance, the “preventive services” regulation would require all American Catholics to buy health care plans that pay for sterilizations, contraceptives and abortions--all of which violate Catholic moral teaching.
So much for the President's promise regarding abortion, and so much for conscience laws.
While speaking at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser at the Renaissance Hotel in St. Louis Tuesday, Obama let the cat out of the bag.
“And, yes, we passed health care reform because no one in America should go bankrupt because somebody in their family gets sick,” he said.
“Insurance companies can’t drop your coverage for no good reason,” the President said. “They won’t be able to deny your coverage because of preexisting conditions. Think about what that means for families all across America. Think about what it means for women."
It was then an audience member shouted out: “Birth control.”
“Absolutely. You’re stealing my line,” the President said.
“Breast cancer, cervical cancer, are no longer preexisting conditions,” he continued. “No longer can insurance companies discriminate against women just because you guys are the ones who have to give birth.”
Someone in the audience shouted out: “Darn right!”
“Darn tooting,” Obama answered, to laughter.
“They have to cover things like mammograms and contraception as preventive care, no more out-of-pocket costs.”
In 2009, Ed Morrisey of Hot Air wrote that the Obama Administration was indeed lying when it said no abortions would be covered by the massive health care law:
It only took the Associated Press six weeks after Rep. Joe Wilson’s “You lie!”, but they finally have reported that Barack Obama told a whopper in his joint speech to Congress — and that Democrats have lied all along about abortion and ObamaCare.
Last week, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops called on Catholics to contact HHS to object to the regulation. That call generated 57,000 comments to HHS, according to the Conference's web site.
Now, the Conference is asking Catholics to write Congress in support of HR 1179 and SR 1467, the Respect for Rights of Conscience Act
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