{"id":191243,"date":"2018-11-17T11:58:59","date_gmt":"2018-11-17T17:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=191243"},"modified":"2018-11-17T00:24:25","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T06:24:25","slug":"pelosi-planned-parenthood-obamacare-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pelosi-planned-parenthood-obamacare-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi promised Planned Parenthood she wouldn’t pass Obamacare without abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Despite former President Barack Obama’s promises<\/a> that “no federal dollars” would be used “to fund abortions and federal conscience laws would remain in place” under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), a recent Tweet by former Planned Parenthood<\/a>\u00a0president Cecile Richards unintentionally revealed that funding abortion through the ACA was actually part of the plan from the beginning.<\/p>\n

In a series of tweets<\/a>, Richards<\/a>\u00a0responded to pushback against Nancy Pelosi being nominated as Speaker of the House in the newly-elected Congress. In her tweets, Richards said she spoke with Pelosi while the ACA was being pushed through, receiving an assurance that abortion would be part of the healthcare act.<\/p>\n

“I also find it interesting \u2013 though not surprising \u2013 that the effort to go after [Pelosi] is being led by four men in Congress,” Richards tweets<\/a>.\u00a0“She was the Speaker of the House when we passed the Affordable Care Act. As @<\/s>BarackObama<\/b><\/a> has said himself, we would not have the ACA without her.”<\/p>\n

Then came this admission:<\/p>\n

I will never forget the meeting with her [Speaker Pelosi], when I was at PP, where she told me in the middle of that fight that she would not pass the ACA if it banned insurance coverage for abortion<\/strong>. Though many “progressive” men were willing to throw women under the bus, she was not.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Former Planned Parenthood prez Tweet reveals Dems knew ObamaCare would fund abortion (Image: Twitter)<\/p><\/div>\n

Of course, pro-life advocates saw this coming<\/a> at the time, despite the claims of Pelosi<\/a>, who even had trouble wrangling members of her own party<\/a> to vote for the ACA because of its abortion funding.<\/p>\n

Planned Parenthood worked tirelessly to elect President Obama, who\u00a0told<\/a>\u00a0members of a 2007 Planned Parenthood event,\u00a0\u00a0“… In my mind reproductive care is essential care. It is basic care. So, it is at the center and at the heart of the plan that I propose….” ‘Reproductive care’ is frequently used as code for abortion.<\/p>\n