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The controversial House Bill 40 was signed into law in September by Gov.
Inside the House, lawmakers spent more than two hours debating the measure, which would allow women to use Medicaid coverage and state employee health insurance for abortions.
Although the governor's decision to sign the bill into law drew strong support from abortion-rights groups, it has been strongly criticized by others.
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By using state taxpayer money to expand coverage for abortions, Curtis said, her group and the others believe the law violates their religious beliefs.
"It's always been that taxpayers do not pay for these abortions," Curtis said. "I feel like it's murdering a human being. Because it permits tax funding, Right to Life would feel it's going against our religious freedom to pay for it."
While previous laws allowed coverage in the cases of health complications, rape or incest, elective abortions were not covered.
"The bottom line of the governor's actions in signing this legislation into law is the result will be more babies are going to be slaughtered in the womb and the hard-working people of
In addition to believing abortion is morally wrong, she said she also considers the legislation fiscally irresponsible.
"It has been estimated that this new law allowing unrestricted Medicaid abortions could end up costing the state
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