House Republicans will follow their health care law repeal vote with a more targeted attack: legislation to take down provisions that they contend allow for taxpayer funding of abortion. How legislators vote on such bills will play out in the 2012 elections.
Anti-abortion legislators introduced the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act as H.R. 3 on January 20. The bill intends to prevent federal funding for abortion procedures by codifying the Hyde Amendment, which has long barred federal agencies from paying for abortions. 
The legislation is supported by the chairman of an Energy Committee health panel, Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-Pa.), and the co-chairs of the Congressional Pro-Life Caucus, Reps. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) and Dan Lipinski (D-Ill.) – like his father before him, Rep. Lipinski is conservative on many social and fiscal issues. It also comes in tandem with the Protect Life Act, another measure meant to prevent taxpayer funding of abortion.
H.R.3
Latest Title: No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act
Sponsor: Rep Smith, Christopher H. [NJ-4] (introduced 1/20/2011) Cosponsors (200)
Latest Major Action: 2/4/2011 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
A summary of H.R. 3 is shown below:
No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act – Prohibits the expenditure of funds authorized or appropriated by federal law or funds in any trust fund to which funds are authorized or appropriated by federal law (federal funds) for any abortion.
Prohibits federal funds from being used for any health benefits coverage that includes coverage of abortion. (Currently, federal funds cannot be used for abortion services and plans receiving federal funds must keep federal funds segregated from any funds for abortion services.)
Disallows any tax benefits for amounts paid or incurred for an abortion or for a health benefits plan that includes coverage of abortion, including any medical deduction for such amounts or any credit for such an employer-sponsored plan.
Prohibits the inclusion of abortion in any health care service furnished by a federal or District of Columbia health care facility or by any physician or other individual employed by the federal government or the District.
Provides that such prohibitions shall not apply to an abortion if: (1) the pregnancy is the result of forcible rape or, if the pregnant woman is a minor, incest; or (2) the woman suffers from a physical disorder, injury, or illness, including a life-endangering physical condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy itself, that would place her in danger of death unless an abortion is performed, as certified by a physician.
Makes such prohibitions applicable to District funds.
Creates a cause of action for any violations of the abortion provisions of PPACA. Gives federal courts jurisdiction to prevent and redress actual or threatened violations of such provisions by issuing any form of legal or equitable relief, including an injunction or order preventing the disbursement of all or a portion of federal financial assistance until the prohibited conduct has ceased. Gives standing to institute an action to affected health care entities and the Attorney General.
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to designate the Director of the Office for Civil Rights of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to receive, investigate, and refer to the appropriate federal agency complaints alleging a violation of PPACA abortion provisions.
The question is what has the Obama Administration’s reaction to the GOP moves?
They’re fighting it tooth-and-nail.
The Obama Administration has apparently ordered that the only Federal government report (the Center for Disease Control) on abortion statistics … be buried.
Reporters have uncovered evidence – confirmed by the CDC’s own press office – that the Obama administration is deliberately playing “hide the ball” on nationwide abortion statistics. For apparently the first time in 40 years, the CDC’s annual “Abortion Surveillance Report” was not published, and there are “no plans” for the data to be produced at this time.
Whatever you feel about abortion and its legality, virtually all people agree that transparency and factual accuracy are important in the abortion debate. That is why even Planned Parenthood spends a substantial amount of money each year funding the Guttmacher Institute’s studies on abortion statistics. While pro-life groups have long contended that Guttmacher’s methods systematically undercount abortions, that is beside the point; the Guttmacher studies have long provided a consistent source for studying abortion trends over time. Such data is important not only for both sides of the idealogical debate, it is important medical information.
In the wake of numerous damaging disclosures about unscrupulous practices by abortionists (from Kermit Gosnell to Planned Parenthood clinics across the country), the Obama Administration has apparently ordered that the only Federal government report on abortion statistics – again, a report that has run continuously for 40 years – be buried. The immediate question this raises is: what is the Obama administration trying to hide?
The Obama Administration has been working behind the scenes to overturn a rule, implemented by President Bush in 2008, that re-enforces the rights of doctors, nurses, and other health care workers to refuse on moral or ethical grounds their professional involvement in abortions.
The Bush Administration ruling prohibits hospitals and clinics that receive federal dollars from discriminating against medical professionals who refuse to take part in procedures such as abortions, to which they have objections based on their moral or religious convictions. Under the rule, such individuals may not be disciplined or denied employment because they refuse involvement in such a procedure.
The Democratic Party and specifically the Obama administration are latterly owned by abortion advocates such as Planned Parenthood, an organization funded by radical billionaire George Soros.
According to LifeNews.com, the Obama Administration filed legal papers relative to a case the state of Connecticut is pursuing to stop the conscience protections. In November a federal court ruled against a nurse saying she may not sue a hospital that forced her to assist in an abortion. According to the suit, officials at New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital knew as early as 2004 that the nurse would not consent to assisting with abortions, citing her strong pro-life views. Nevertheless they forced her involvement in a late-term abortion in 2009, threatening her not only with termination from her job, but also the loss of her nursing license if she did not comply.
“In a document filed in federal court in November, Obama administration attorneys admitted that the administration wants to finalize a rescission of the conscience rules but has been delayed because of other business — likely due to the [department of Health and Human Services] working on implementing the provisions of the ObamaCare law,” reported the pro-life website.
The legal documents noted that HHS had hoped to have “an internal draft final rule prepared in the near future [but] the schedule is necessarily tentative given the possibility of unforeseen delays and the need to devote time and resources to other agency priorities.”
According to the pro-life legal group Alliance Defense Fund (ADF), the Obama Administration’s legal paper trail clearly shows that the White House is focusing on dismantling the Bush-era conscience protections on abortion, which would leave “little defense for the regulation and for health care workers,” said ADF legal counsel Matt Bowman.
The battles to reclaim America from the clutches of the Democratic left are far from over. If we are to reverse the Obama administrations socialistic dogma the Democratic Party is ramming down our throats, the next twenty months are critical to this nation.
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