Life and Death - Remember in '10: Taxpayer baby-killing "Extremely Unpopular" (NewsMax.com)

From: Newsmax.com  'Insider Report' from Newsmax.com, Sent: Sunday, January 03, 2010

Taxpayer Funds for Abortions "Extremely Unpopular"

The use of taxpayer funds to pay for abortions has been one of the most contentious issues surrounding the healthcare reform debate, but the position of the great majority of Americans is clear: They oppose it.
A new Quinnipiac University poll of likely voters found that 72 percent do not approve of allowing abortions to be paid for with public funds under any healthcare system created by the federal government.
The survey asked respondents,"Do you support or oppose allowing abortions to be paid for by public funds under a healthcare reform bill."

Only 23 percent said they support the idea, and 5 percent did not know.

"Although a small majority favors abortion rights, allowing the use of public money for the procedure under a national healthcare plan, which has been a matter of some dispute in both houses on Congress, is extremely unpopular," said Pat Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.

Republicans oppose public funding for abortions by a 91 percent to 5 percent margin. Most Democrats also oppose funding, 54 percent to 38 percent. Among independents, only 23 percent support funding and 74 percent [of Independents] oppose it, according to the poll of more than 1,600 registered voters.


Both the House and Senate versions of the healthcare reform bill contain restrictions on the use of taxpayer dollars for abortions. And the Hyde Amendment, passed in 1976 and renewed consistently since then, bars the use of federal funds for subsidizing abortion within Medicaid.

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