{"id":45058,"date":"2014-01-13T19:02:12","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T00:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=45058"},"modified":"2014-01-14T11:10:13","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T16:10:13","slug":"female-law-professor-testifies-abortions-not-a-social-good-worth-taxpayer-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/female-law-professor-testifies-abortions-not-a-social-good-worth-taxpayer-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"Female law professor testifies: abortion not a social good worth taxpayer funds"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On January 9, 2014, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice held a hearing on H.R. 7, the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act.” The bill was given a hearing by the pro-life subcommittee chairman, Arizona Republican Representative Trent Franks.<\/p>\n

National Right to Life News Today reports<\/a> that H.R. 7 would “permanently prohibit subsidies for abortion and health insurance coverage of abortion in federal programs \u2013 both within longstanding federal programs and within the health care law signed by President Obama in 2010.” If passed, the legislation would cause elective abortion insurance coverage in the Affordable Care Act to cease.<\/p>\n

The subcommittee heard testimonies in support of H.R 7 from Helen Alvare, a pro-life professor of law at George Mason University School of Law, and Richard Doerflinger<\/a>, associate director and secretariat of pro-life activities for the United States Conference of Catholic bishops. An opposing testimony<\/a> was given by Susan Wood, associate professor of health policy and of environmental and occupational health at George Washington University.<\/p>\n