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Cirque du So-What

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2. It's all over the RW blogosphere
Mon Mar 26, 2012, 10:06 AM
Mar 2012

A cursory glance revealed it being trumpeted on all the usual suspects - World Nut Daily and FreakRepublikkk included - so it's likely to be a favorite story in teabagger circles.

On edit: found this...

Right-Wing Media Helps Health Reform Law Opponents Invent "$1 Abortions"

March 15, 2012 5:23 pm ET by Adam Shah

Right-wing media are pointing to final regulations implementing health care reform legislation to revive long discredited myths about abortion coverage.

In early March 2012, the federal Department of Health and Human Services finalized a number of regulations implementing portions of the Affordable Care Act. One of the regulations implemented a provision requiring that insurance companies that choose to provide coverage for abortion through the health care exchanges ensure that federal money is not used to provide abortions. The regulations further require insurers to collect an additional abortion coverage fee from plan enrollees who choose a plan that covers abortion.

After the rules were announced, The Fox Nation excerpted a LifeNews.com piece under the false headline: "$1 Abortions in Obamacare." And Rush Limbaugh falsely claimed that the regulation "establishes state health care exchanges under Obamacare including an abortion premium mandate. You now, because of this implementation of the rule, you now will be forced to pay a dollar a month to cover abortion on your insurance policy." Limbaugh also claimed that the fee "is coming out of your pocket, one way or the other."

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http://mediamatters.org/blog/201203150014

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