Hatch: Senate Health Bill Could Require Taxpayers to Fund Abortions

Sen. Orrin Hatch says that unlike the House version of health care reform bill, the Senate bill "could require American taxpayers to fund elective abortions and force health care professionals who oppose abortion to perform the procedure." Says Hatch: "The Reid language authorizes abortion in the government operated health plan (or the public option) and federal subsidies for insurance coverage that includes abortion. It is not the Stupak/Pitts language. And the sanctity of life is not an issue that can be traded away for political expediency" (see press release).