{"id":192292,"date":"2018-12-19T14:24:57","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T20:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=192292"},"modified":"2018-12-18T11:00:01","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T17:00:01","slug":"california-taxpayers-half-billion-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/california-taxpayers-half-billion-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"In 25 years, California taxpayers paid over half a billion dollars for abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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According to an analysis of California’s Fee for Service (FFS) Program, which funds abortions, California taxpayers have spent more than half a billion dollars on abortions committed in the state since 1989. Live Action News reviewed reports published by Medi-Cal<\/a>, a California state tax funded program for low-income children and adults, and found that in just the state’s Fee for Service (FFS) Program,\u00a0taxpayers paid nearly $700 million for abortions over 25 years, from 1989<\/a> to 2014<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Medi-Cal FFS abortion expenditures in California 1989 to 2014<\/p><\/div>\n

As you can see from the chart above, actual taxpayer-funded abortion totals were unavailable until the year 2000.\u00a0Between 2000<\/a> and 2014<\/a>, California billed the taxpayers for nearly 840,000 abortions, which cost more than $358 million.<\/p>\n

Under the federal Hyde Amendment<\/a>, federal tax dollars cannot fund abortions except in specific circumstances, but\u00a0tax dollars can<\/strong> fund the same facilities and staff that commit abortions<\/a>.\u00a0Many Americans are unaware that their hard-earned tax dollars often fund abortions at the state level.<\/p>\n