Abortion Coverage in President Obama's Health Care Reform Bill | The Heritage Foundation

Yes Virginia, Obama does provide federal funds for abortion in the new healthcare bill.

 

Abortion Coverage in President Obama's Health Care Reform Bill | The Heritage Foundation

Published on March 4, 2010 by Chuck Donovan

President Obama has put forward another variant of health care reform whose foundation is H.R. 3590. Nearly a year after the President launched the health reform process with a White House summit, public opinion has moved even more strongly in the direction of keeping longstanding prohibitions on federal financing of abortion and plans that cover abortion. Despite this fact, H.R. 3590 includes multiple provisions that facilitate abortion funding, including new grants to federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) that contain no restriction on abortion payments whatsoever.