Posted by
Defend America on Friday, April 30, 2010 7:17:51 PM
Governor
Brewer Makes Arizona First to Drop Abortion Funding in Health Care
by
Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
April 26,
2010
Phoenix,
AZ (LifeNews.com) -- State legislators in Tennessee may have beaten
their colleagues in Arizona in passing a law to allow the state to
opt out of some of the abortion funding in the government-run health
care bill President Barack Obama signed. But Governor Jan Brewer made
Arizona officially the first to have the bill become law.
As
pro-life advocates in Tennessee wait
for Governor Bredesen to decide if he will sign the bill there
into law, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer wasted little time signing her
state's version.
On
Saturday at the Center for Arizona Policy Family dinner before 1600
guests, Brewer signed SB 1305 to opt Arizona out of abortion coverage
in any insurance exchanges created by the new federal Patient Protection
and Affordable Care Act.
The
first-in-the-nation law further clarifies current Arizona law prohibiting
taxpayer funding of abortion by prohibiting state and local governments
from offering abortion insurance coverage in employee benefit plans.
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