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Posted: 8:14 AM Feb 12, 2010
NC County Cuts Some Abortion Coverage For Staff
Paying for abortions, with tax dollars, has now been deemed illegal.
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A North Carolina county has stopped paying for elective abortions for employees after officials said a 29-year-old state Supreme Court ruling makes it illegal to use tax dollars to pay for the procedure.
The News & Observer of Raleigh reported Friday that Wake County Manager David Cooke changed the county's self-insurance plan this week.
The plan will continue to pay for abortions in cases of incest, rape or danger to the mother's life.
Employees have had elective abortions covered since at least 1999.
Attorney and state House Republican leader Paul Stam of Apex says other counties that pay for the service could face lawsuits.
Opponents say the move goes beyond the 1981 court ruling, which dealt with funding abortions for indigent women that were not a medically necessity.
Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.
Latest Comments
Abortion is an elective proceedure made becase of personal choice. While, i feel abortion is murder, if a person decides to have it, they should pay for it themselves!
"I would not want my daughters PUNISHED with a baby"!Exact words from OBAMA.
Abortion should be illegal. Those of you that think abortion should be allowed. (to murder a child) Maybe your mom should have exercised her right to abort you, then you would not be posting to this news story. Abortion is wrong, period. Capital punishment is for criminals who made a choice to commit the crime, a baby unborn has had no choice in life. POST THIS WITN!!!!!!!
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