Washington D.C., Sep 10, 2009 / 17:52 pm
In comments following President Obama’s address to Congress regarding health care reform, Representative Chris Smith (R-NJ) expressed reservation about the president’s statement that under the new health care reform, “no federal dollars will be used to fund abortion.”
Smith said the president’s statement is not true by referring to Factcheck.org which notes that the current health care reform would “allow abortions to be covered by a federal plan and by federally subsidized private plans.”
“Killing human babies by abortion is not health care,” Smith stressed, remarking that “Publicly funding and facilitating abortion can in no way be construed as health care reform.”
Smith then charged President Obama of “seeking to ‘pull one over’ on the American public” by denying that the health reform won’t fund abortions. “Yet even the nonpartisan FactCheck.org has called him on this fallacious and deceptive claim,” he said.