The Catholic blogsphere lit up over the announcement by the NRLC that the HHS has approved a plan that uses the new healthcare bill to fund abortions in a state plan in PA. Jill Stanek has more details as to why this is a concern.
Catholics of a more liberal persuasion accuse NRLC of dishonesty, citing an HHS statement issued about 12 hours after the story broke.
Given that the HHS, according to the PA Insurance Commissioner, approved the plan it would seem one of three things has occurred here:
a. HHS had no idea that this plan had abortion funding as broadly as specified in the PA plan. They issued a clarification that regardless of what the plan says aboriton won't be covered except for the provisions listed (rape, incest).
2. HHS tried to get the plan through and got caught. Now they are retracting.
d. The plan never had provisions for funding in the first place.
I find a. and 2. more likely (a being the front runner). It will be interesting to see if PA revises it's plan after this dustup.
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