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More U.S. Pro-Life Gains on the Horizon with State Opt-Out of Abortion Mandate

By ADF Alliance Alert

LifeSiteNews: "With Tennessee having become the first state to opt-out of the abortion funding mandate in the national health care reform, several more states are poised to follow suit this year, with many more to follow when their legislatures again reconvene. Americans United for Life (AUL), a pro-life public-interest law and policy organization in the United States, developed draft legislation for states to exploit a provision in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Sec. 1303), which explicitly allows the state-run health insurance exchanges to prohibit public funds from subsidizing health insurance companies that offer co-pays for abortion . . . "

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on April 15, 2010 (boomark / email).