claim: "there will be no public funding for abortion in this legislation."
author: bart stupak
evidence_1: the balanced budget act of 1997, for example, permits health maintenance  organizations (hmos) serving medicaid recipients to refuse to cover counseling  or ... providing funding for abortion does not encourage or compel women to  have abortions, but denying funding compels many women to carry their  pregnancies to ...
evidence_2: jan 24, 2017 ... if hr 7 were passed into law, it could “effectively ban” private insurers from  covering abortion through plans on the affordable care act exchanges, jamila  taylor, a senior fellow in ... it became status quo to consider abortion so  controversial that, at the very least, there should be “no taxpayer funding” for it.
evidence_3: simply put, this means that supporters of the bill claim that the hyde amendment  does not prevent a woman from obtaining an abortion, but it prevents the  entitlement of government funding to women who wish to have one. advocates of  the hyde amendment further state that this ban of federal funding for abortions  does not ...
evidence_4: jul 16, 2017 ... massachusetts is one of 17 states where public money is used to fund abortions  for low-income women. ... if their effort proves to be successful, it would return a  thorny political debate long silenced by the judiciary to the legislative arena,  where activists could then try to pressure ... “and right now, it's not.”.
evidence_5: sep 28, 2017 ... i made no qualms about that when i was elected governor. i have not and never  will change my views. i personally believe that a woman must have the right to  decide what goes on in her own body.” the law will expand public funding of  abortion to include medicaid recipients and to those who are covered ...