Proving just how abhorrent the pro-abortion left has become, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown has signed a bill into law requiring all state insurers to provide free abortions for everyone, including illegal aliens:
The $10.2 million Reproductive Health Equity Act includes $500,000 for abortions for the estimated 22,873 women who would be eligible for the Oregon Health Plan, the state’s Medicaid program, “except for their immigration status.”
Under the first-of-its-kind law, most of which goes into effect immediately, Oregon insurers must provide 100 percent coverage for abortions without co-pays or deductibles.
Those covered by Providence Health Care, a nonprofit Catholic health care provider, and the only Oregon insurance company that does not cover abortions, will have expenses reimbursed by the state.
Unsurprisingly, members of the pro-abortion movement praised the law:
Oregon just EXPANDED abortion access, taking a firm stand against Trump’s extreme agenda: https://t.co/r9eeY2pikr pic.twitter.com/sIIQfLb8lf
— NARAL (@NARAL) August 17, 2017
Of course, Planned Parenthood helped draw up the bill; and, in effect, the law is nothing more than a government bailout for the organization. Four Oregon Planned Parenthood facilities have shut down in recent years due to a 15 percent decrease in abortions from 2011 to 2014. Nationally, Planned Parenthood client visits have declined from 3 million to 2.4 million.
The fact that Planned Parenthood clinics are shuttering across the country due to a drop in abortions certainly calls into question the liberal talking point that Planned Parenthood provides so much more than abortions.
But Gayle Attenberry, the executive director of Oregon Right to Life, said Oregon’s new law is sure to increase the abortion rate:
“Oregon taxpayers already cover nearly 50 percent of all abortions in the state whether they like it or not,” said Ms. Atteberry. “By making abortion free, this percentage will inevitably increase. We also expect more late-term abortions, which are currently very expensive as well as risky to perform. All completely covered by either insurance companies or by the Oregon taxpayers.”
Just disgusting.
If pro-abortion advocates want to donate a portion of their paychecks to help women abort their babies, that’s their decision. But the government – state or federal – should not force pro-life taxpayers to surrender their money to fund something to which they are morally opposed. As Republican state Rep. Bill Post wrote on Facebook, “Oregon should be ashamed and embarrassed.”
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