STATES MOVE TO OPT OUT OF ABORTION FUNDING UNDER PRO-ABORTION HEALTH CARE LAW
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
March 26 , 2010
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The new pro-abortion health care bill President Barack Obama signed into law contains massive abortion funding and promotion. But, states legislatures can decide to opt out of making their residents pay for abortions and some states are already moving ahead with legislation to do so.
Charmaine Yoest, the president of Americans United for Life, told LifeNews.com about the opportunity states have despite the pro-abortion law .
"The new law explicitly allows states to pass laws prohibiting qualified health plans offered through the Exchanges in their states from offering abortion coverage," she said today.
She indicated responses from federal and state legislators have been pouring into her organization's offices.
"We've already heard from legislators in Delaware, Georgia, and Kansas who want to get this legislation passed in their states."
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OPTING OUT
Click here to view the map which shows the number of states that desire to “opt out” of the recently passed health care reform measure.
ABORTION STATISTICS DOWNWARD TREND REPORTED BY NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE NEWS
After reaching a high of over 1.6 million in 1990, the number of abortions annually performed in the U.S. has dropped back to levels not seen since the late 1970s.
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REMEMBER ROE!
YES NANCY, THEY ARE YOUNG AND THERE ARE A LOT OF THEM!
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/04/15/remember-roe.html
THE SLED TEST
What follows here is a way of presenting a clear rationale for the defense of unborn human life. The summary here is brief, but full details of this argument can be found here.
A way to demonstrate the value of the unborn child can be offered by using the SLED test.
SLED stands for Size, Level of Development, Environment and Degree of Dependency. As the defense unfolds it is easy to see that all of the “qualifications” society places on the unborn child for continued existence are artificial and would never be imposed on a child, perhaps a toddler, present before us.
Size: we come in all sizes—big, small, short, tall. Size clearly does not determine the value of life
Level of Development---we develop as individuals throughout the continuum of our lives—we never stop learning, experiencing and expanding our abilities
Environment—we all need a place to live, food to eat and air to breathe. Some of us live in mansions, some in bungalows. Some of us eat caviar and steak, some of us eat chicken and potatoes. Some of us have full lung capacities, some of us breathe less well—but breathe we do!
Level of Development—the infant develops physically into the toddler, to the child, to the teen, to the adult, to the mature person. As he/she develops physically, mental development takes place also. We do not say that the toddler had more value than the infant or the mature person more than the adult. Again, such development is a continuum.
RATIONING IN THE HEALTH CARE REFORM BILL
By Wanda Franz, Ph.D.
The National Right to Life Committee is committed to protecting the lives of innocent persons from conception to natural death. Thus, our mission ranges from defending the unborn from abortion to protecting older people and those with disabilities from euthanasia. One form of involuntary euthanasia occurs when people are denied health care that they need to save their lives.
 Denial of lifesaving care occurs when rationing of health care is imposed in order to cut costs. Such cases of care denial have been reported in many countries with government-run health care programs, especially those in Canada and England. Care is rationed by simply denying the use of expensive newer drugs and denying or delaying therapies—especially for elderly patients. Data from Canada and England indicate that the survival rates for many illnesses are much lower than in the United States where the drugs and therapies are readily available.
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AAPS filed the suit Friday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. 
The notion is that if women deserve a chance to see their baby before having an abortion, they deserve to see a high-quality image -- not a low-quality one abortion centers might use to discount the ultrasound and persuade women to have an abortion.