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RedState's Wolf on report that RNC insurance plan covers abortion: Everyone responsible "must be summarily fired"

November 13, 2009 12:39 am ET by Media Matters staff

From Leon H. Wolf's November 12 RedState post, headlined "Someone at the RNC Must be Fired Over This":

Let's keep this simple. Word got out today via Politico that the RNC's health care package for their employees covers abortions. At the risk of belaboring the obvious, if you at any time have donated to the RNC since 1991 (when this policy apparently took place), some incremental portion of your donation went to the administrative costs of running the RNC, including employee salaries and benefits packages. Part of "benefits packages" in this context is apparently a health care package that pays for abortions.

For thirty years, we have fought tooth and nail to prevent our tax money from being used to pay for abortions. Turns out, we were apparently doing it through donating to the political party that was ostensibly on our side. This betrayal is so fundamental to the majority of people who donate to the RNC that it's almost unspeakable. I have no doubt that many of the staffers there will miss the point, so allow me to make it clearly: you have caused every person who donated to support your livelihood to become involved in what they perceive to be a grave moral evil.

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In order for the RNC to regain the trust of their donors, they must disclose the names of all people involved in any way of the selection of their health care plan. And those people must be summarily fired. No severance packages, no golden parachutes; fired. For cause.

No pro-lifer in good conscience can give them a dime until this happens.

IF YOU HAVE DONATED TO THE RNC AT ANY TIME SINCE 1991 CALL THEM AT (202) 863-8820. GET NAMES. DEMAND REFUNDS UNLESS THE PEOPLE RESPONSIBLE ARE HELD ACCOUNTABLE. IF THEY DON'T HEAR DIRECTLY FROM YOU THEY WILL DO NOTHING.

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- by DAWUSS (November 13, 2009 2:06 am ET)
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  Only Republicans?
  
  So according to RS, IOKIYAD?
  
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- by rwmacdonald2091 (November 13, 2009 6:40 am ET)
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  I would think that the way Republicans think about abortion funding, they should find any women who have had abortions under the policy, and demand the money back and fire them. They also must find a different insurance carrier, since Cigna has policies that cover abortion. After all part of their premium dollars go to the salary of Cigna's CEO, and he has allowed the company to sell insurance covering abortions.
  
  So come on you wing wing crackpots, show your stuff.
  
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- by IRONY 101 (November 13, 2009 6:55 am ET)
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  I agree totally. Pro-lifers should not give one dime to the Republican Party. In fact, they should leave the Republican Party and form their own party. What we need is more conservative-leaning parties. The Tea Bag Party, the Pro-Life Party, the Glenn Beck Party, the Birther Party, the Michele Bachmann Party, the I Hate Latino Illegal Immigrants Party...the more parties the better.
  
  Oh...and each party should run it's own candidates.
  
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  - by rtejon (November 13, 2009 8:48 am ET)
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    My favorite is Jimmy McMillan's nascent Rent Is Too Damn High party in NYC, although I don't see imagine many conservatives would be attracted to it.
    
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  - by bilbo_dies (November 13, 2009 9:34 am ET)
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    I agree totally. Pro-lifers should not give one dime to the Republican Party.
    
    And, I agree with your point but; let's call a spade a spade.
    These people are not "Pro Life", they are "anti-abortion" or "anti-choice". If they were pro-life they would care more about all these lives after they were born, not before.
    
    Also, we should note that this is just another tactic in the anti-choice crusade. If you can't make abortion illegal then work to deny women the ablility to have an abortion. Meaning no insurance, etc.
    
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    - by rtejon (November 13, 2009 9:40 pm ET)
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      I'm sure you haven't forgotten the same people loudly opposing distribution of condoms and contraceptives to lower income people, as was an early proposal for inclusion in the stimulus bill, despite the obvious benefits of reducing abortion and helping those people raise better contributors to the next generation's tax base.
      
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  - by shaggles (November 13, 2009 11:09 am ET)
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    The Republican party has never really given a rat's ass about the Pro-life movement. They've just been pandering to a voting block.
    
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- by mjsomme (November 13, 2009 7:51 am ET)
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  Mr. Wolf, I have some questions.
  
  You're just now getting it??? You just figured out that all these years Republicans have just been giving lip-service to the anti-choice crowd in order to maintain their standing with the religous right? You didn't realize that they were only really concerned about denying abortions to poor women? You couldn't see that it's a party full of hypocrites?
  
  A little slow on the uptake aren't you?
  
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  - by political_left-religious_right (November 13, 2009 10:15 am ET)
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    Precisely! The rank-and-file Republicans should have woken up to the reality of their party's leaders when, just a few years ago, they held the White House, both houses of Congress, the majority of Governorships, the Supreme Court, and the vast majority of the opinion-generating media, and still didn't make the slightest move to end abortions, even though many of the politicians had got into office promising change on that very issue!
    
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  - by wzwriter (November 13, 2009 10:21 am ET)
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    A little slow on the uptake aren't you?
    
    Guess that makes him a RepubliKKKan.....
    
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- by goesto11 (November 13, 2009 9:21 am ET)
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  Kind of makes the RNC's paying for Sarah Palin's wardrobe with donor money look a little quaint by comparison, huh?
  
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- by bintx (November 13, 2009 10:03 am ET)
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  I wonder if their plan covers Viagra and other reproductive issues for men? If so, then those should be discontinued also.
  
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- by shaggles (November 13, 2009 11:06 am ET)
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  Demand refunds? Good luck with that.
  
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- by steeve (November 13, 2009 11:09 am ET)
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  Every woman who has ever received this policy needs to be asked if they had an abortion. Lie detector, torture, whatever works. Those that have must then be fired, then convicted of murder.
  
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