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Washington D.C., Oct 2, 2013 \/ 12:04 am (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- Federal taxpayer funds could subsidize tens of thousands of abortions each year through the health care legislation that is continuing to go into effect, according to a new report from a pro-life group.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cThe issue of whether the Affordable Care Act creates streams of taxpayer funding for abortion has been hotly debated,\u201d Chuck Donovan, president of the Charlotte Lozier Institute, said Sept. 26. \u201cResearch done by the Lozier Institute makes clear that, through the Multi-State Plans alone, Americans will be complicit in the deaths of thousands of unborn children each year through their tax dollars.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tThe Lozier Institute is the education and research arm of the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List. Its report examines the Affordable Care Act\u2019s multi-state plans, which are present on the new health insurance exchanges.<\/p>\n

\tThe institute estimates federal taxpayers will heavily subsidize between 71,000 and 111,500 abortions per year through federal premium tax credits and Medicaid expansion for subscribers to plans that permit abortion.<\/p>\n

\tTwenty-seven states and the District of Columbia do not bar health plans with elective abortion coverage from the health insurance exchanges created by the 2010 law. Seventeen states permit state funds to be used for elective abortion coverage in their Medicaid programs.<\/p>\n

\tThese laws mean that about 5.57 million girls and women could gain abortion coverage under the Affordable Care Act through either the Medicaid expansion or the insurance exchanges created by the act.<\/p>\n

\tDuring debate over whether to pass the health care legislation, President Obama secured the support of several pro-life Democrats by signing an executive order that confirmed the application of long-standing restrictions on elective abortion funding to the health insurance exchanges.<\/p>\n

\tHowever, critics of the executive order said at the time that it would not prevent federal subsidies from going to insurance plans that pay for abortion and are allowed on the health exchanges.<\/p>\n

\tDonovan, the report\u2019s author, said that the current multi-state plans\u2019 rules would allow the administration to push for the creation of health plans that cover elective abortions in states where they are not explicitly banned.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cA taxpayer may have an individual plan that does not cover elective abortion, but his or her tax dollars will be increasingly flowing to public and private plans in other states that reimburse for abortions at a higher rate than previously seen in American health care,\u201d Donovan said. \u201cMoreover, the ability to avoid the companies that sponsor these plans may decrease over time as they grow in size and continue to curry favor from a government that views abortion as a form of therapy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tDonovan said that the Obama administration is paying Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion provider in the U.S., to direct consumers to abortion-funding plans in the multi-state plans through the Center for Medicaid Services\u2019 \u201cNavigators\u201d program. This could help enroll girls and women in plans that cover elective abortion and discourage them from enrolling in plans that do not.<\/p>\n

\tThe report prompted some members of Congress to criticize the Obama administration.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cThe results of this study are a sad reminder that despite assurances from the President when Obamacare was signed into law, this law will in fact result in the taxpayer funding of abortion,\u201d Rep. Diane Black (R-Tenn.) said Sept. 26. \u201cThis staggering loss of precious human life is an abomination and American taxpayers should not be forced to foot the bill.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tRep. Black said she would continue to fight against what she said is the Obama administration\u2019s \u201creckless disregard for the sanctity of human life\u201d and would work to end federal funding of abortions and abortion providers \u201conce and for all.\u201d<\/p>\n

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