11-24-2014
A pro-life Connecticut couple who sued federal and state officials over the state’s failure to offer health insurance options that don’t force subscribers to subsidize abortions has withdrawn their lawsuit after officials agreed to offer a conscience-friendly health plan that does not include abortion coverage, reports LifeSiteNews.
Barth and Abbie Bracy had previously been insured through a private healthcare provider, but once the Affordable Care Act went into effect, the company was forced to cancel the policy. The couple turned to Connecticut’s ObamaCare-mandated health exchange to look for a new policy, only to find that every plan offered included a mandatory surcharge that can only be used to fund elective abortions.
While federal law forbids taxpayer subsidies for elective abortions, ObamaCare gets around that by requiring every health care exchange plan that provides abortion coverage to charge a dedicated fee to be used exclusively to pay for abortions. Many people don’t know about this fee, however, because ObamaCare bars health care providers from disclosing the information.
“Americans should not have to pay a special fee for other people’s abortions in order to take care of their own family’s health,” said Casey Mattox, senior counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom, the legal aid organization that represented the Bracys during their lawsuit.
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