H.R. 3200, the House of Representative’s health care bill (or ObamaCare to some), has a provision within it to allow Planned Parenthood to introduce their clinics into public schools. That news comes from the American Family Association (AFA) which claims that language outlined in pages 993-1001 of one version of the bill will permit so-called “school-based health clinics” to operate.

Though the bill itself doesn’t mention Planned Parenthood by name it does allow for a “non-profit health agency” to serve as a “sponsoring facility” for a school-based clinic. Those clinics would be open during the normal hours of the school’s operation.

Health Clinics Next Year?

According to the AFA, if the bill passes as it stands, these clinics would open in 2010, although the major provisions of the national plan won’t take effect until 2013. This means that if ObamaCare is passed, then come the 2010-2011 school year, the first clinics will become operational. Planned Parenthood, by the way, is the largest provider of abortion services in the country.

Said Tim Wildmon, AFA’s president, “These Planned Parenthood clinics will not be accountable either to parents or school authorities. They will answer only to the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, who is radically pro-abortion, and who was a vocal supporter of late-term abortionist George Tiller.”

Added Wildmon, “For the death merchants from Planned Parenthood to have unrestricted access to our schoolchildren during school hours is totally unacceptable, but that’s exactly what will happen under this bill. Because the bill orders these clinics to protect ‘patient privacy and student records,’ parents will never know what kind of counsel and treatment their children receive by the time they get home from school.”

Opposing ObamaCare & Planned Parenthood

The AFA is stridently opposed to H.R. 3200 and the many versions of the bill out there and has long been an opponent of Planned Parenthood and its abortion agenda.

Added Bryan Fischer, AFA’s Director of Issue Analysis, “Planned Parenthood’s grossly misnamed ‘safe sex’ message has been responsible for a tragic loss of sexual innocence among America’s youth and untold unwanted pregnancies and widespread sexually-transmitted diseases. No rational society should allow purveyors of such a destructive message to set up shop on public school property, but that’s exactly what the President and the Democrats in Congress are proposing. It’s time for America’s families to rise up and say “No” to ObamaCare.”

WordJourney will continue to follow the national health care debate especially as it pertains to our Christian faith.

Source: American Family Association

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