State and Federal Tax Dollars Violate Health Care Right of Conscience
in State Children's Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP)
Wednesday, September 5, 2001

Under the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), Health and Human Services (HHS) has given states enormous flexibility to expand funding health coverage to more children in the United States. While the major goal of this program was to make healthy care affordable to working class families, the reality is that millions of dollars from S-CHIP are being channeled into unhealthy and dangerous confidential family planning programs that include promoting and providing sterilization, contraception and abortion. Teenage females can be signed up for a CHIP program by schools family planning organizations, and social services organization and given contraception, abortions and in some cases even be sterilized without parent's knowledge or consent. State and federal tax dollars are violating Health Care Right of Conscience by forcing Americans to subsidize the undermining of the parent/child relationship.

Mike O'Dea, Executive Director for the Christus Medicus Foundation requests that we all offer prayers of thanksgiving for those that have worked diligently in delaying HIPAA, particularly for the dedication and hard work of Cynthia Dudek. Please pray and fast for our leadership in Washington and in our state legislatures to continue to protect the God given right of parents in the raising of their children.  

"With this new flexibility for states, we hope millions more children will gain access to needed health care services," HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson said. "SCHIP is an important program in the lives of children and their families. It has the potential to help working families who can't afford basic health care coverage for their children." The SCHIP program covers more than 3 million children who would otherwise not have health insurance. Created by Congress in August 1997, the program is a federal-state partnership that provides health insurance for America's low-income, uninsured children. The law pledges $40 billion in federal funds over 10 years to help states find, enroll and insure children whose families earn too much to be eligible for traditional Medicaid, but not enough to afford private insurance plans."

Unhealthy and dangerous consequences of family planning services.

While brochures describing the S-CHIP program sound benevolent, parents may be uninformed that their daughters may receive contraceptive and abortion services without their knowledge or consent. This is particularly detrimental given the long lasting, life threatening psychological and physical complications of abortion and contraception. Compared to women who have given birth, the suicide rate of women who have undergone abortions is at least 6 times higher and the overall death rate in the year following an abortion is 4 times higher. Substance abuse, post traumatic stress disorder, depression and a host of other psychiatric problems are common in women who have undergone abortion. Abortion is also associated with an increased risk of cervical incompetence, ectopic pregnancies, infection, and other physical complications which reduce a woman's chance of later having a wanted child. Twenty-seven out of thirty-three studies have shown a positive link between abortion and breast cancer with the overall increased risk being 30.8%. In young women who have had multiple abortions and never have had a full term pregnancy, the breast cancer risk is increased several fold.

A United Front...

Since 1980, 18 out of 20 studies have shown the oral contraceptive pill to add a significant risk of developing breast cancer.6 Most of the studies have shown the increased risk to be in the range of 40% to 88% , with the greatest risk (210%) being in teenage women. Because breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer in women (1 in 8 American women will develop breast cancer in her lifetime), oral contraception and abortion put teenagers at extremely high risk. The contraceptive pill is also associated with a significant increased risk of blood clots, stroke, heart attacks, and cancers of the cervix and liver. "Safer Sex" advocates claim condoms provide protection from HIV virus and pregnancy. Given the naturally occurring voids or "channel like defects" in latex used in condoms that are between 10 to 700 times larger than the HIV virus, and the actual breakage rates of condoms being approximately 5%, reproductive rights advocates have erroneously lead the lay public into believing that "safer sex' is 100% effective. "Non-health" services such as contraceptives and abortions should not be paid for with tax dollars, and parental consent must be required to protect our teenagers and our unborn.

The Christus Medicus Foundation seeks your help in educating lawmakers, political candidates and religious organizations about the need for the reform of (S-CHIP) as well as other state and federal health care laws which interfere with religious and moral freedom. Our tax dollars must not pay for coverage that is contrary to our moral convictions, religious beliefs, and undermines parental authority. For the sake of God's children and freedom in America, it is time to be pro-active and free Americans from funding the "culture of death", and make parents access to children's medical information , parental consent and tax fairness national health care election issue.

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