PolitiFact Half Wrong on Abortion Funding in Baucus Bill

PolitiFact, the web site fact-checks politicians and political issues, got it right when it validated a pro-life group's analysis that abortion funding is found in the Baucus health care bill. But it got wrong its assessment of National Right to Life's description of the kind of money involved. PolitiFact confirmed that NRLC is right on abortion funding. But PolitiFact declared wrong an NRLC statement saying, "Under the Baucus bill...federal funds would subsidize coverage of elective abortions." PolitiFact reached these seemingly contradictory conclusions by making the odd claim that the federal government can use federal funds to help purchase private health insurance plans that cover elective abortions, and yet not "subsidize coverage of elective abortions." LifeNews