Americans Firmly Against Government Abortion Plans

Americans Firmly Against Government Abortion Plans

A new poll shows that 58% of Americans don’t want abortions to be paid for as part of any new public insurance plan.

Yet four of the five health care plans floating around Congress include language that would allow abortions to be paid for with public money. The only one that doesn’t – the Republican plan in the Senate – probably won’t go anywhere.

Joy Yearout, communications director for the Susan B. Anthony list, thinks that the plans’ inclusion of abortion is a direct result of Obama’s previously...