Wisconsin Right to Life Launches Obamacare Opt-Out Campaign

Wisconsin Right to Life is working with several legislators on legislation which will allow Wisconsin to opt-out of abortion coverage in the state-based insurance “exchanges” created by Obamacare. Polling indicates that citizens do not want to subsidize abortion coverage or pay for abortions.

The new law requires federal agencies to subsidize and administer health plans that will pay for elective abortions. The law also opens the door to direct federal funding of abortion in Community Health Centers, hundreds of which are operated by Planned Parenthood – the nation’s largest abortion provider.
The Executive Order signed by President Obama, widely and inaccurately reported as prohibiting taxpayer abortion funding under the law, cannot overrule the abortion impact of the law. Unfortunately, the opt-out provision can only be applied to abortion coverage. Action at the federal level will be needed to negate the impact of direct abortion funding at Community Health Centers.
Opt-out legislation cannot be introduced until January of 2011. Wisconsin Right to Life is promoting a petition to our new Governor, who will take office then, letting him know that thousands of Wisconsin citizens want Wisconsin to opt-out of subsidizing abortions through health insurance under Obamacare.

You can download the opt-out petition here. Or , you can sign up online and urge your friends and email address book to do so also.

Barbara Lyons