The legislative maneuvering continues on Capitol Hill and the latest amendments and revisions to the Pelosi health care legislation in the House includes numerous and specific citations about abortion provisions and abortion funding. We have closely examined HR 3962 and listed the specifics - including the troubling provisions promoting abortion in this bill.
| Page |
Section |
Short Description |
| 97 |
213(b) |
Commissioner shall establish an actuarial value of optional service coverage for abortions for which public funding is not allowed. |
| 109 |
222(e)(2) |
The entity offering a qualified health benefits plan shall determine whether those abortions for which Federal funding is prohibited, and those abortions for which Federal funding is permitted, shall be covered by the plan. |
| 110 |
222(e)(3) |
The public health insurance option shall provide for the coverage of abortions for which public funding is allowed—those “abortions for which the expenditure of Federal funds appropriated for the Department of Health and Human Services is permitted, based on the law as in effect as of the date that is 6 months before the beginning of the plan year involved.” The Act shall not be construed as “preventing the public health insurance option from providing for or prohibiting coverage of” abortions for which public funding is prohibited. |
| 110 |
222(e)(4) (A) & (B) *referred to throughout the act as 222(d)(4)(A) & (B) |
Describes the different abortion services: those for which federal funding is prohibited, and those for which federal funding is permitted, based upon the law as in effect as of the date that is 6 months before the beginning of the plan year involved. |
| 129 |
240 |
Requires QHBP offering entities to provide information related to end-of-life planning to those seeking enrollment in Exchange-participating health benefit plans |
| 171 |
303(e)(1)(A) & (B) |
The Commissioner shall ensure that there is one plan that provides coverage of all abortions (those for which federal funding is prohibited and permitted), and one plan that excludes coverage of abortions for which public funding is prohibited. |
| 171-172 |
303(e)(2) |
Sets forth the requirements for segregating funds if a plan provides coverage of abortion for which public funding is prohibited. |
| 246 |
341(c)(3) |
Affordability credits may not be used for payment of abortions for which federal funds are prohibited. This section makes no reference to those abortions for which federal funding is permitted. |
| 1352-1360 |
2511 |
Authorization of school-based health clinics. |
| 1420-1421 |
2529(c)(1) |
It is the Sense of Congress that a longitudinal study will be conducted from 2011-2020 on the mental health consequences of those who resolve a pregnancy in various ways (abortion included). |
| 1942 |
3101 (Indian Health Care Improvement Act amended) Sec 804 |
Limitation of the use of funds appropriated to the Indian Health Service. “Any limitation on the use of funds contained in an Act providing appropriations for the Department for a period with respect to the performance of abortions shall apply for that period with respect to the performance of abortions using funds contained in an Act providing appropriations for the Service.” |
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