WASHINGTON – A report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), a nonpartisan investigatory arm of Congress, made public today, provides dismaying confirmation of earlier predictions by National Right to Life that federally subsidized abortion coverage would become a widespread feature of Obamacare. The report found that more than one thousand federally subsidized exchange plans … Read more
By Susan T. Muskett, J.D. Senior Legislative Counsel Editor’s note. This appeared in the online, digital edition of National Right to Life News for April. You can read this story and all the many other important news items and commentary at www.nrlc.org/uploads/NRLNews/NRLNewsApril2014.pdf. Based on the number of persons who had enrolled in ObamaCare as … Read more
By Susan T. Muskett, J.D., Senior Legislative Counsel Congressman Andy Harris Congressman Andy Harris (R-Md), a member of the House Appropriations Committee’s Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, today questioned HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius regarding two key aspects of abortion coverage on the ObamaCare Exchanges. First, Congressman Harris questioned Secretary Sebelius regarding the … Read more
By Susan T. Muskett, J.D., Senior Legislative Counsel Susan Muskett, JD On Christmas Eve 2009, ObamaCare passed the Senate after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid secured the last needed vote from Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska. Part of the “deal” that Senator Nelson negotiated included a requirement that Exchange plans that cover elective abortion … Read more
By Susan T. Muskett, J.D., Senior Legislative Counsel As ObamaCare kicks in, new details are emerging regarding its pro-abortion effect in the Exchanges around the country. It is bad enough that federal premium subsidies will be paid to Exchange plans that cover elective abortion in the 27 states that have not passed a law opting … Read more
By Dave Andrusko Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York Forty-three Catholic dioceses, schools, hospitals, social service agencies, and other institutions filed suit today, accusing Obama’s Department of Health and Human Services of violating the First Amendment and federal law by requiring Catholic organizations to “sacrifice their beliefs in order to be able to continue their … Read more
By NRLC Legislative Director Douglas Johnson and NRLC Senior Legislative Counsel Susan T. Muskett, J.D. WASHINGTON (March 14, 2012) — The Obama Administration has taken another step in what amounts to a four-year plan to make abortion-covering health insurance, subsidized by the federal government, commonly available in the United States. The latest action came on … Read more