Focus on Family: Mary Harned on Abortion Funding in Health Care=more coming out on HCR

 

TOP STORY June 1, 2010   Friday Five: Mary Harned, staff counsel of Americans United for Life By Kim Trobee, editor More and more "little-known" provisions are being uncovered in the health care reform law. Mary Harned of Americans United for Life commented on five of those provisions for our Friday Five segment. 1. No Language Ensuring Abortions are Excluded The new health care reform law only prohibits the use of certain funds to pay for abortions (the new affordability credits and cost-sharing reductions), leaving open the possibility that other authorized funds in the law will be used to pay for abortions. 2. The Law is Structured to Fund Abortion if Protections are Removed If the Hyde Amendment is not renewed (it must be renewed annually), the new affordability credits and cost-sharing reductions created by health care reform may be used to directly fund abortion. The law was designed to be deconstructed that way. (The Hyde Amendment prohibits funds from the Department of Health and Human Services from paying for abortions.) Read More                     VIDEO FEATURES   NEWS   We're thinking Stuart has been spending too much time watching YouTube. Or perhaps not enough. We'll let you be the judge of his — unusual — Stoplight® commentary. Tuesday's primaries offered a glimpse of what America is thinking as it heads for the November election. Stuart Shepard gets insights from Tom Minnery and Ron Prentice, executive director of the California Family Council. Republican Leader Seeks Answers from President Obama House Minority Leader John Boehner asked President Obama on Thursday for a progress report on how the administration was implementing the executive order banning taxpayer funding of abortion Florida Governor Vetoes Pro-Life Bill Gov. Charlie Crist vetoed an ultrasound bill today that would have allowed abortion-minded women in Florida the chance to see an image of their preborn child. Kids with Special Needs Get Scholarship Money in Oklahoma A new law in Oklahoma will create publicly funded scholarships for kids with autism, Down syndrome or other disabilities.                               ALSO OF NOTE   FOCUS ON THE FAMILY RESOURCE   PluggedIn Movie Review: The Karate Kid Twenty-six years after Mr. Miyagi schooled Daniel LaRusso in the ways of "wax on, wax off," The Karate Kid is back ... with 11-year-old Jaden Smith playing the role of a struggling American expat in China who gets help from mentor Jackie Chan. How does the remake stack up to the original? Listen online to the day's top radio news stories, hosted by Kim Trobee.                        The Faith: What Christians Believe, Why they Believe it, and Why it Matters The word "Christianity" conjures up many pictures, depending on who defines it. But Chuck Colson asserts that the faith "given once for all" is an invitation to a wonderful vision of life, open to all who will come. The Faith invites all who will - whether believers or skeptics - to explore the basic doctrines of Christianity and find out for themselves what it really means to be called a disciple of Christ - and how to live as a disciple. Hardcover $9.49             QUOTEWORTHY   "Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. Do not be too severe upon their errors, but reclaim them by enlightening them. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress, and Assemblies, Judges, and Governors, shall all become wolves." — President Thomas Jefferson           citizenlink.com | about us | contact us | focusaction.org | focusonthefamily.com Copyright © 2010, CitizenLink. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. For information on reprints, forwarding and other information, here

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