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THE CLOCK IS TICKING

The Rhode Island General Assembly must act this session in order to prohibit government subsidies for insurance plans that provide coverage for abortion-on-demand from taking effect in Rhode Island on January 1, 2014.

Please ACT NOW to oppose public funding for abortion-on-demand in Rhode Island! It takes just a minute.
 
(Other life-related bills appear immediately below this brief discussion on public funding fo abortion-on-demand. Note that hearings have been scheduled for 1 pro-life bill on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 and on another 5 pro-life bills on Tuesday, April 30. Scroll down for details.) 
 
Background:
 
‭For over 30 years the abortion industry has been trying to legitimize abortion as health care and trying to obtain public funding for abortion-on-demand. The ongoing government restructuring of our health care system represents their greatest opportunity.‬
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‭The ‬2010 ‭health care restructuring ‬law‭ - the PPACA ‬or Obamacare ‭- uses government funds to subsidize health plans that cover abortions and forces Americans to pay for other people's abortions even if morally opposed.‬
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‭As a concession, in order to mitigate at least some of the harm, Congress ‬explicitly authorized‭ state legislatures to prohibit government subsidies for plans that cover elective abortion through the health benefits exchange each state is asked to create.‬
 
The health benefits exchange established by pro-abortion Governor Lincoln Chafee through executive order, the legality of which remains under challenge by Rhode Island Right to Life joined by numerous state legislators and by the Alliance Defending Freedom (formerly Alliance Defense Fund), fails to prohibit plans that cover elective abortion, and even fails to extend Rhode Island's longstanding abortion-funding prohibitions to this massive new government program.
 
If the General Assembly does not act during the current session to maintain the longstanding status quo by extending existing statutory prohibitions to the state health benefits exchange, public funds will begin flowing into the coffers of abortionists as early as January 1, 2014.
 
Please ACT NOW to oppose public funding for abortion-on-demand in Rhode Island! It takes just a minute.
 
 
RI Health Benefits Exchange (2013 - H5556)
The clock is ticking. The Rhode Island General Assembly must act this session in order to prohibit government subsidies for insurance plans that provide coverage for abortion-on-demand from... [+] more
 
Women's Right to Know Act (2013 - H5488)
Hearing scheduled for Wednesday, April 30 - 5 p.m. House H.E.W. Committee
This act would establish enhanced informed consent procedures and a 24 hour waiting period for women seeking abortions... [+] more
 
Ultrasound Informed Consent (2013 - H5435)
Hearing scheduled for Wednesday, April 30 - 5 p.m. House H.E.W. Committee
This act would require that, prior to a woman giving informed consent, abortionists must perform an obstetric ultrasound and display the ultrasound images so that the pregnant woman may view them... [+] more
 
Choose Life License Plate (2013 - S0298 / H5053)
This act would authorize the division of motor vehicles to issue special license plates in recognition of "Choose Life"... [+] more
 
Sex-Selective Abortion Ban (2013 - H5566)
Hearing scheduled for Wednesday, April 30 - 5 p.m. House H.E.W. Committee
This act would ban abortions solely as a means of sex selection... [+] more
 
Fetal Protection Act (2013 - H5104)
Hearing scheduled for Wednesday, April 30 - 5 p.m. House H.E.W. Committee
This act would criminalize conduct causing the death or serious injury of an unborn child resulting from an assault on the child's mother.... [+] more