{"id":184631,"date":"2018-07-06T13:34:18","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T18:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=184631"},"modified":"2018-07-02T13:21:07","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T18:21:07","slug":"taxpayer-abortion-death-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/taxpayer-abortion-death-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxpayer-funded abortions offer no real help for women… only death"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Live Action News has previously documented<\/a> how taxpayers in several states are footing the bill to pay for abortions, even repeat or multiple<\/a> abortions. A newly-enacted law<\/a> in Illinois provides state health insurance and Medicaid coverage for abortions, and the media is salivating to cheer it on. But tragically, rather than direct women to resources which can help them with options other than abortion, many in the media are glorifying the use of taxpayer dollars for abortions as the best solution for pregnant women in need.<\/p>\n

One such case, highlighted recently by the Chicago Tribune<\/a>, involved a woman of low income who received a Medicaid-funded abortion at a Planned Parenthood of Illinois facility. She\u00a0claimed<\/a>\u00a0in her statement to the paper, \u201cI don\u2019t have any help. That\u2019s why I\u2019m making the decision I am now.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Chicago Tribune glorifies taxpayer funded abortion<\/p><\/div>\n

We can’t deny the fact that women can face many struggles during pregnancy, which the profitable abortion industry can exploit. After all, the abortion industry knows that repeat abortions occur more frequently when they are taxpayer-funded. A\u00a0survey conducted by the Guttmacher Institute<\/a>,\u00a0Planned Parenthood<\/a>‘s former \u201cspecial affiliate<\/a>,\u201d revealed that taxpayer-funded abortions were a factor for women<\/a> who had at least one prior abortion. The researchers found that \u201c[p]atients who paid for their abortion procedure with their own funds were less likely to have had a prior abortion than those who used health insurance or received financial assistance.\u201d A later Live Action News report,<\/a>\u00a0which found that the number of women in New York who had\u00a0not<\/em>\u00a0experienced a previous abortion was smaller than the number of those funded by Medicaid, confirmed this.<\/p>\n

In this case, the abortion patient admitted to the Tribune that she already had one young child, and painted a picture of hardship, which she claims led her to have two abortions — the most recent one funded by taxpayers. That procedure reportedly was obtained at a publicly funded hospital at a discounted rate. This time, the woman claimed, she wanted to be sedated during the abortion, and she turned to Planned Parenthood who was all too willing to help. After all, it was taxpayer funds that would be used for this. So, rather than offering a discount to the woman experiencing financial hardship a discount — or better yet, assistance with her housing, job needs, or food — Planned Parenthood arranged a $500 Medicaid-funded abortion procedure, which the woman accepted.<\/p>\n