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October 14, 2010

Planned Parenthood Launches Campaign to Fund Birth Control Via ObamaCare

Topics: Life Issues, Political News and commentaries

You had to know this was coming - it was a concern when the Murkowski amendment was added to Obamacare and the baby killing industry was certain to exploit it...

From LifeNews.com:

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The Planned Parenthood abortion business has launched a new national campaign designed to promote forcing insurance companies to cover birth control via the ObamaCare health care law. It wants to get the federal government to include birth control among the preventive services covered under the measure.

The plan would exploit the Mikulski amendment, which pro-life advocates warned about when it was added to the legislation.

The amendment allows the federal government to define what constitutes "preventive services" that new private health plans must cover without cost-sharing by consumers as required under the federal health reform law. During the ObamaCare debate, pro-life groups said the Obama administration could determine birth control or abortions were "preventative" and force taxpayers to shell out millions to cover the cost of them.

If Planned Parenthood is successful, private insurance plans would be forced, and thereby insured enrollees, would be forced, to pay for birth control through their premiums.

Planned Parenthood rolled out the campaign on Tuesday in conjunction with the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, a medical group that has become increasingly politicized.

According to an NPR report, HHS officials say an independent panel of health experts will determine whether birth control will be included in the new coverage requirements, which are expected to be issued by August 1, 2011.