Medicare covers abortion

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Medicare covers abortion except in cases of rape, incest and life of the mother. Are those of us who pay medicare premiums guilty of cooperating with evil? (Note: although medicare is typically for those over 65, younger people on disability can be eligible.)
 
Typically Medicare is for people 65 and older. Do you mean Medicaid?
 
Go to: Medicare. org/ articles and type in does medicare cover abortion
 
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Medicare covers abortion except in cases of rape, incest and life of the mother.
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According to this website you have it backwards:
Medicare recipients are not provided coverage for abortion procedures except for two specific cases. This restriction is due to the Hyde Amendment. The Hyde Amendment is a piece of legislation that was introduced in 1997 that prevents federally-funded healthcare providers from offering coverage for abortions. This amendment covers all cases of abortion except for those in which the woman’s life is in danger or if the pregnancy is due to rape or incest. [From Does Medicare Cover Abortion? | Medicare & Medicare Advantage Info, Help and Enrollment]
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Since most health insurance covers abortion, you don’t have much of an opportunity to avoid it. Paying the full cost of medical treatment would bankrupt most people.
 
You’re right, I said it backwards. Medicare covers abortion “only” in cases of rape, incest and life of the mother. Thank you for the correction. The question is still the same . Is it cooperation with evil to pay medicare premiums since it covers abortion in these cases?
 
Assuming this is true then you would not be cooperating in a way that makes you guilty of any type of sin. Same for paying taxes.
 
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Do you conclude this because it is remote and material cooperation rather that formal, or proximate and material? or by some other line of reasoning?
 
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Do you conclude this because it is remote and material cooperation rather that formal, or proximate and material? or by some other line of reasoning?
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The money I pay to medicare is such a small amount of the whole medicare budget, that I can say my money goes to other things.
 
JJammaz, thank you for that very nice chart. The case in question seems to be material, mediate and remote providing there is such a thing as a proportionately serious reason to kill a baby. What’s your thought on that? Whom do we have to thank for this wonderful chart?
 
The proportinately serious reason for the use of insurance when it can in some instances cover the cost of this sin is the maintenance of our own life for God and the lives of many. If you can not get another insurance then you have no choice unless you want to die. The sin would happen if you paid in or not and your contribution doesn’t lead to the sin, so it isn’t on you. Same for taxes orbuying products with mined cobalt (https://www.washingtonpost.com/grap.../congo-cobalt-mining-for-lithium-ion-battery/) and so on. The Archdiosese of Philadelphia made this chart, very useful.
 
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