Reality Check: Claims That Reform Will Encourage Abortions at School "Sex Clinics" are Absurd
Ed. Note: Opponents of health reform appear to have run out of fresh smears against health insurance reform and have started recycling old debunked attacks. In response to those that brought up this attack that Politifact proved false months ago, we simply bring back this classic Reality Check first published on October 1, 2009.
Last night [...]
Government Health Care Is a Double-Edged Sword
Late Saturday night, House Democrats celebrated the “historic”
passage of national health care, but the victory was only made
possible by forcing their liberal members to swallow a bitter
pill.
To pass the 1,990-page health care legislation by a narrow 220 to
215 margin, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi [...]
Reality Check: Claims that reform will encourage abortions at school ?sex clinics? are absurd
Last night Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann questioned health insurance reform, raising the spectre of school-based "sex clinics" that would take students to "have their abortion, be back and go home on the school bus that night":
It means that parents will never know what kind of counsel and treatment that their children are receiving. And as [...]
But for Wales?
From 1997 to June of 2009, Rep. John McHugh (R-NY), had a near perfect pro-life voting record. But since June he’s gone 0 for 3 on pro-life votes. Why the change of heart? McHugh’s press secretary won’t say. But the likely reason is obvious: On June 2, 2009 President Obama nominated McHugh to serve as [...]
Obamacare Would Make Public and Private Insurance Plans Cover Abortion
In July 2007, presidential candidate Barack Obama told a group of Planned Parenthood activists that he would require coverage for abortion in both his public plan and in private insurance plans:
In my mind reproductive care is essential care. It is basic care, and so it is at the center, the heart of the plan that [...]
