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Okay - I have an issue with Ms. Lopez' argument. If the universal health coverage is to not exclude anyone for any condition, then her argument doesn't carry any weight. Since abortion is a legally permissible medical procedure and the intention of universal health care is to not deny coverage for ANY pre-existing condition - the abortion procedures still will get federal funding...

http://www.npr.org/2010/11/04/131073245/memos-to-the-president

Fourth leter down:

Kathryn Jean Lopez

 

Courtesy of Kathryn Jean Lopez

Kathryn Jean Lopez is the editor-at-large of the National Review Online.

Dear Mr. President,
Please join John Boehner in making the Hyde Amendment permanent and universal.
No federal taxpayer funding of abortion, period.
You and I don't have to agree on the morality of abortion to keep my money out of it.
You would be getting us beyond the contentious appropriations debate we have every year, talking past one another.
It would show you respect the moral consciences of many Americans — and that you don't view us as enemies.
Thank you, Mr. President.