If you've been watching the news lately, you've probably been hearing a lot about President Obama's plans to overhaul the current health care system in favor of a new, reformed one. But what you probably aren't hearing in the mainstream media is the abortion aspect of the health care issue.

            Obama supports a public health insurance option, where taxpayers would pay for health insurance for some of the population. But this policy is alarming because it would most likely lead to taxpayer funding of abortions.

            Under the current health care system, low-income women and their families can get low-cost health care through Medicaid. As of now, Medicaid cannot assist anyone in paying for an abortion. The pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute, run by Planned Parenthood, wrote this in a 2007 report on publicly funded abortion: “Studies published over the course of two decades…concluded that 18-35% of women who would have had an abortion continued their pregnancies” when they could not get Medicaid assistance to pay for an abortion.  What does this mean?  That even abortion groups admit when abortions are not available on the taxpayer’s dime, substantially fewer women have them.

            If the public insurance option is included in the final health care bill, with no restrictions on abortion funding, it will unquestionably lead to a sharp increase in abortion.  Under the Obama plan, some women who chose to keep their child due to the cost of abortion would now be able to abort their unborn child with greater ease than ever. The Obama administration is already using your taxpayer dollars to fund the destruction of human life and they will not stop now. In March, Obama held a health care reform summit in Washington. Among the participants were Planned Parenthood and other pro-abortion organizations. How many pro-life groups were there? Zero. What happened to the openness Obama promised?

            Mr. President, this is not the “abortion reduction” and “common ground” you have been promising since the campaign trail. Don’t use our hard-earned money to pay for baby-killing across the country!