Federal court rejects false claim about abortion and health care
Today a federal judge in Virginia rejected Liberty University’s claim that the Affordable Care Act would lead to university funds going toward abortion. From Politico‘s report on the ruling:
Liberty University, a Christian university in Lynchburg, Va., had argued that the legislation’s requirement that nearly all Americans purchase insurance coverage and its incentives for large employers to cover employees would allow the university’s money to cover abortions, violating the religious values of the institution.
The court flatly rejected that argument.
“The Act explicitly states that no plan is required to cover any form of abortion services,” Judge Norman K. Moon, of the U.S. District Court of the Western District of Virginia, wrote in his order Monday. Moon was nominated to the court by President Bill Clinton and confirmed in 1997.
This ruling is yet another link in a long chain of refutations of false claims about abortion and health care reform. Opponents of health care reform are sticking to their guns, but their arguments are falling flat time and again.