Defeat LD 820!
Most people, whether pro-life or pro-choice, agree on one thing: taxpayer dollars should not pay for abortions.
This bill would allow Maine’s Medicaid program to pay for abortions, and state money must pay for the entire cost. Federal law prohibits federal money from being used to pay for abortions.
Governor Mills’s Administration testified in support of this bill. Maine taxpayers would pay $227,546 for abortions in the upcoming fiscal year and $375,843 the following year. This additional cost, on top of the current Mills Administration Budget proposal, would leave less than $10,000 in the bank at the end of the Biennium.
This bill was heard by the Committee on Health Coverage, Insurance and Financial Services, and more than 260 people testified. It was voted out of the committee along party lines with an Ought to Pass recommendation. It now moves to the House and Senate floors.
Please contact your representative (find your Representative here), your senator (find your senator here) and Governor Mills and let them know that Maine taxpayers should not pay for abortions.
Sponsored by Representative McCREIGHT of Harpswell. Cosponsored by Senator VITELLI of Sagadahoc and Representatives: ACKLEY of Monmouth, BABBIDGE of Kennebunk, BABINE of Scarborough, BAILEY of Saco, BEEBE-CENTER of Rockland, BERRY of Bowdoinham, BLUME of York, BRENNAN of Portland, BROOKS of Lewiston, CAIAZZO of Scarborough, CARDONE of Bangor, CARNEY of Cape Elizabeth, CLOUTIER of Lewiston, COLLINGS of Portland, COOPER of Yarmouth, CUDDY of Winterport, DAUGHTRY of Brunswick, DENK of Kennebunk, DENNO of Cumberland, DODGE of Belfast, DOORE of Augusta, DOUDERA of Camden, DUNPHY of Old Town, EVANGELOS of Friendship, FARNSWORTH of Portland, FECTEAU of Biddeford, FOLEY of Biddeford, GATTINE of Westbrook, Speaker GIDEON of Freeport, GRAMLICH of Old Orchard Beach, HARNETT of Gardiner, HEPLER of Woolwich, HOBBS of Wells, HUBBELL of Bar Harbor, HYMANSON of York, JORGENSEN of Portland, KORNFIELD of Bangor, LANDRY of Farmington, MADIGAN of Waterville, MASTRACCIO of Sanford, MATLACK of St. George, McCREA of Fort Fairfield, McDONALD of Stonington, McLEAN of Gorham, MELARAGNO of Auburn, MEYER of Eliot, MOONEN of Portland, O’NEIL of Saco, PEBWORTH of Blue Hill, PEOPLES of Westbrook, PERRY of Calais, PIERCE of Falmouth, RECKITT of South Portland, ROBERTS-LOVELL of South Berwick, RYKERSON of Kittery, SCHNECK of Bangor, SHARPE of Durham, SYLVESTER of Portland, TALBOT ROSS of Portland, TEPLER of Topsham, TERRY of Gorham, TIPPING of Orono, TUCKER of Brunswick, WARREN of Hallowell, ZEIGLER of Montville, Senators: BELLOWS of Kennebec, BREEN of Cumberland, CARSON of Cumberland, CHENETTE of York, CHIPMAN of Cumberland, DESCHAMBAULT of York, DILL of Penobscot, GRATWICK of Penobscot, LIBBY of Androscoggin, LUCHINI of Hancock, MILLETT of Cumberland, MIRAMANT of Knox, SANBORN, H. of Cumberland, SANBORN, L. of Cumberland.