Healthcare reform and abortions - what's the truth? (OneNewsNow.com): "President Obama contends that conservatives are 'bearing false witness' about his healthcare reform plan, but one leading conservative says it's the president who's misleading the American public.
President Obama told thousands of liberal religious leaders in a telephone call Wednesday that healthcare reform is a 'core ethical and moral obligation,' and his reform plans are designed to fulfill one of God's commandments -- 'I am my brother's keeper. I am my sister's keeper.'
The president also said it is a 'fabrication' and 'distraction' to say taxpayer funding of abortion is included in the House and Senate healthcare reform plans.
Tony PerkinsTony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, says he has been working on Capitol Hill for three months with pro-life members of Congress to ensure taxpayer funding of abortions is not included in the bill -- but those lawmakers' efforts have been unsuccessful.
'We have a whole page-and-a-half of amendments that were offered on multiple days to do just that, and they were all voted down, primarily on party lines,' he explains. 'So if abortion were not going to be in this bill and it was not the intent, why would there be opposition to just stating that it was excluded and outside the funding of this bill?'"
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