The following comes from a Mar. 4 story on LifeSiteNews.com.
Congressman Chris Smith’s years-long contention that it is difficult to determine whether insurance companies cover abortion has been bolstered by an unlikely source: the leading figure in a regional Planned Parenthood.
Elaine Rose, the CEO of Planned Parenthood Votes Northwest, wrote that “under the Affordable Care Act, it’s nearly impossible to find out which insurance plans cover abortion.”
“It took the staff of Planned Parenthood Votes Northwest more than a week to figure it out, and we’re still not even completely sure which plans do what,” she admitted.
“If it’s this hard for insurance carriers and Planned Parenthood to figure out which plans cover abortion, then imagine how hard it is for the average consumer,” she wrote in an article for Real Change, an alternative newspaper in Washington state that prides itself on “taking action for economic justice.”
Smith sponsored the Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act, which would require insurance companies to clearly tell consumers whether their premiums would defer the cost of abortion. The House of Representatives passed the bill, along with the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, in late January by a 227-188 vote.
A few weeks before it passed the House, 13 Republicans led by Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts introduced the bill in the Senate. However, Majority Leader Harry Reid is not expected to bring the measure up for a vote.
Sen. Roberts introduced the law into the upper chamber after HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius had a tense exchange with Rep. John Shimkus of Illinois over the topic.
On October 30, Congressman Shimkus asked Sebelius to provide his committee with a list of insurers who do not cover abortion. “I will check and make sure that is clearly identifiable,” she promised.
Yet Congressman Shimkus asked why she had not fulfilled her pledge by December 11 at a subsequent hearing.
Sebelius said the information is already clearly listed and thus, “It is available.”
The op-ed by a Planned Parenthood leader may undermine that case.
Rose, a former state senior assistant attorney general, intended her words to support a more controversial bill, the state’s Reproductive Parity Act. The RPA forces insurance companies that pay for maternity care to provide coverage for elective abortions, as well.
“The truth is that there’s only one way to end the confusion and achieve equal justice under the law: pass RPA,” she said.
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I doubt this.
PP was involved with planning Obamacare. They know how to bill.
OBAMACARE is a real mess.
Let’s not forget that those in Congress who voted for it, did not read it. – The DEMOCRATIC PARTY of Death (mostly) at work with our tax dollars.
Harry Reid (D) and his Democratic Party of Death is a scourge upon this Country.
With Catholic heretics – Nancy Pelosi (D), Kathleen Seblius (D), John Kerry (D), Joe Biden (D), not being any better.
Remember the nonsense Nancy P said when she demanded that the Obamacare bill be passed before it could be read, so it could be understood. Such double speak never existed before, but because big brother is watching over us ,this is the price we have to pay for being in a nanny state.
Some theologians suggest that, in addition to accepting the will of His Father regarding His crucifixion, Christ refused to defend himself before Herod Antipas because He was confronting a man who Jesus knew was bound for Hell (and whom he would ultimately judge). While no one fully knows her fate, Kathleen Sibelius might well be assuming the role of a modern Executive Branch Herod. She will continue to defy her Faith, and directly be responsible for torturing the administration of the ACA to bury the public funding of abortion so that it is virtually impossible to recognize. She appears to Congress regularly and lies constantly; achieving one of the central purposes of the ACA, to reward Planned Parenthood for its unwavering support of the Democratic Party (thus deserving the receipt of hundreds of millions in congressional largesse). The only bigger offender are: (1) her ordinary (yes, she was told not to receive communion) for not publicly excommunicating her (too bad she was not a priest saying the TLM); (2) the USCCB, most notably Cardinal Wuerl, who uncompromisingly fail to recognize and apply Canon 915; and (3) the Vatican, that seems to run by “Alfred E. Neuman” when it comes to publicly calling abortion-loving politicians and administrators to task. Yes, who can ever forget Cardinal “Yuck-it-up” Dolan having a belly-laugh with our abortionist-in-chief President Obama.