Democrats Healthcare Plan Sets Aside Taxpayer Money for Abortions- Obama was Wrong, I was Right

In The Secret to Doing Well on Government and Civics Tests: A Grader Tells All I wrote:

Once, a student asked me how I could consider myself a conservative, when conservatives are such bad people (in their opinion). I said that I wish I could be a socialist, or a liberal, but sadly, those ideologies are false- they do not describe the reality of the world that I see about me. An ideology is a way of looking at the world, a lens through which you can view things, and if the lens is wrong or incorrect, you won't see the true reality of the world. Liberals don't see the true reality of the world around them- in fact, most outright reject that there is any sort of true reality to the world and that everything in it is just subjective- and so whenever they advance their theories, make predictions, or shape policy, they are always wrong, because their lens is wrong. I'd love for them to be right- if only money grew on trees and that paying people to stay home and do nothing made society a better place to live and criminals could be released early from prisons and holding hands and singing a song made evil dictators be nice- but sadly, that isn't the way the world really works. To be right, to be correct, you have to be conservative.

Okay, so let's examine this theory in the context of whether or not the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 provides more public taxpayer money to increase abortions. In my post Obama's Health Care Plan Attacks Life, Liberty, and Property I claimed that the act did subsidize abortions. In speech after speech, and with an executive order signed under oath of office, President Barack Obama claimed that the act did not subsidize abortions. I'm a conservative and view things through a conservative lens; Obama is a liberal and views things through a liberal lens. So, which lens is correct and which one is incorrect? Does the Health Care Act provide public taxpayer money for abortions? Does it allow the government to increase the amount of money taken from from pro-life individuals and give it others so that they can kill unborn babies? Turns out it does. It looks like I was right, and the President was wrong.

Via theblogprof That was fast! Obama approves first taxpayer-funded abortion under ObamaCare that he promised would never happen, from LifeNews Obama Administration OKs First Tax-Funded Abortions Under Health Care Law:

The Obama administration has officially approved the first instance of taxpayer funded abortions under the new national government-run health care program. This is the kind of abortion funding the pro-life movement warned the kind of abortion funding the pro-life movement warned about when Congress considered the bill.


The Obama Administration will give Pennsylvania $160 million to set up a new "high-risk" insurance program under a provision of the federal health care legislation enacted in March. It has quietly approved a plan submitted by an appointee of pro-abortion Governor Edward Rendell under which the new program will cover any abortion that is legal in Pennsylvania.

The high-risk pool program is one of the new programs created by the sweeping health care legislation, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, President Obama signed into law on March 23. The law authorizes $5 billion in federal funds for the program, which will cover as many as 400,000 people when it is implemented nationwide.

Looks like I was right. The healthcare plan passed by the Democrats does attack life, liberty, and property.