Your State can enact “Obamacare Abortion-Insurance Opt-Out” Law

STATE LEGISLATORS:  Bioethics Defense Fund lawyers are available to provide pro bono model legislation and consultation to state legislators who wish to enact an Obamacare Opt-Out bill that recognizes abortion shouldn’t be subsidized with our tax-dollars — IF Obamacare survives court challenges that BDF lawyers are consulting in. Read on. . .

Obamacare Abortion Coverage Opt-Out Act

After providing legal assistance to Arizona, BDF drafted and provided legal testimony on a new law that makes Louisiana the fourth state to opt-out of the tax-subsidized abortion coverage.

BDF model legislation recognizes that Obamacare may be struck down in court.  BDF’s model therefore includes this language:

Section 2. Nothing in this Act shall be construed or implied to recognize any independent right to abortion under the constitution or laws of this state, nor shall it be construed or implied to recognize the constitutional validity of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, P.L. 111-148.

Bioethics Defense Fund was the only legal organization providing on-the-ground drafting and legal expertise to the Governor’s staff and the bill author in Louisiana and to the Catholic Conference in Arizona.  We are now consulting for nearly a dozen states whose legislatures were near a close at the time the President signed the national healthcare bill into law.

MODEL LEGISLATION: Contact BDF lawyers Nikolas T. Nikas and Dorinda C. Bordlee at info@bdfund.org or 504-231-7234.

Read the bill text of BDF-drafted La. H.B. 1247 and learn more information here.

OBAMACARE COURT CHALLENGE: The Obamacare health insurance exchanges are set to begin in 2014 IF they survive pending court challenges.   BDF will be representing the Catholic Medical Association in an amicus brief during the important appellate review of upcoming rulings.  Of particular concern is the law’s improper mandate that citizens in states who have not opted-out must use their personal dollars to buy abortion coverage, whether they want that coverage or not. Stay tuned.

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