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AULA Rejects Obama Administration's Health Care Guidelines That Provide More Funding for Abortion

As part of the health care reform process, AULA's attorneys testified about the guidelines during hearings held by the Institute of Medicine. However, among the groups chosen to effectively help write the health care plan for all Americans was Planned Parenthood.

"Ideologically-driven recommendations became policy," Dr. Yoest noted, "when the Obama Administration adopted the Institute of Medicine (IOM) recommendations. Nearly every American will be forced to pay for the abortion-inducing drug ella in the name of 'preventive care.' In addition, the conscience rights of Americans who choose not to distribute life-ending prescriptions may be trampled."

AULA attorneys noted that the Obama Administration has offered an exceedingly narrow conscience protection that leaves the majority of pro-life Americans vulnerable by so narrowly defining the concept of "religious employer," that most religious schools, hospitals, and charitable organizations would be excluded from its protection. Moreover, an organization such as AULA and its sister organization, Americans United for Life - with pro-life missions, but no religious affiliation- are unquestionably unprotected by the Administration's fig-leaf conscience protection.

"The preventive care provision of the health care law was intended to prevent diseases, not to end pregnancies," said Yoest. "Americans United Life Action urges Congress to pass the Respect for Rights of Conscience Act, H.R. 1179, to address today's unconscionable mandate."

To read more about the IOM guidelines, click here.

SOURCE Americans United for Life Action