By
Craig Bannister
September 27, 2013 - 10:56 AM
Today, 72 congressmen sent a letter
to House Speaker Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) urging him to insert language
ending abortion funding and religious discrimination in Obamacare into any
funding or debt ceiling legislation.
"[T]he Obama administration has
committed unprecedented attacks against the unborn and the religious freedom
guaranteed in the Constitution, all under the guise of 'access to health
care,'" the letter tells Boehner.
The letter implores Boehner to "incorporate H.R.
940, the Health Care Conscience Rights Act, along with a cessation of federal
dollars for abortions into the continuing resolution or on legislation
addressing the debt ceiling."
H.R. 940 says that nothing in the
Obamacare law "shall require an individual to purchase individual health
insurance coverage that includes coverage of an abortion or other item or
service to which such individual has a moral or religious objection, or prevent
an issuer from offering or issuing, to such individual, individual health
insurance coverage that excludes such item or service."
