Michele Bachmann: Obama Contraception Mandate Could Lead To Limit On Births Per Family

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) warned Tuesday that President Barack Obama's contraception mandate requiring most religiously-affiliated employers' health plans to cover birth control could lead to the government limiting how many babies are born per family.

Her comments came on Glenn Beck's network, GBTV, on the show "Real News From The Blaze."

Bachmann was asked whether conservatives had bungled the debate over women's health.

"I think that it is a mistake for us to get caught in a trap that the left would love to have us dance in," she said, adding that the "war on women" was an appeal to a "group."

She continued, "Women have a lot to lose under 'Obamacare,' and I’ll give you an example. If you want to go into specifics, what the government can give, the government can take away. It certainly isn’t beyond the pale to think, in light of Kathleen Sebelius, the Health and Human Services secretary -- she said that it’s important that we have contraceptives because that prevents pregnancy, and pregnancy is more expensive to the federal government."

(Video above via GBTV.)

She then proceeded to argue that the government could ration births. "Going with that logic, according to our own Health and Human Services secretary, it isn’t far-fetched to think that the president of the United States could say 'We need to save health care expenses. The federal government will only pay for one baby to be born in the hospital per family, or two babies to be born per family.' That could happen. We think it couldn’t?"

Anchor Amy Holmes interjected and asked whether Bachmann was suggesting that the Obama administration or another administration could advocate a one-child policy like China.

"What I’m saying is that now that we know the president of the United States, unilaterally, can tell insurance companies, 'You must offer the morning-after abortion pill, you must offer sterilizations, you must offer contraceptives free to the recipients of those products, because we tell you to' (which means they’re effectively setting the price, as well), that says that whoever the health care dictator, could conceivably make that order, as well," she said.

She continued to say that the president wouldn't necessarily make the order but claimed there was nothing that limited him from doing it.

Bachmann ended her presidential bid after the Iowa caucuses, but the Minnesota congresswoman has announced that she will run for re-election.

Comments

[gregory57]

01:42 AM on 11/19/2012

Wow... that's a great idea, Michelle, only two children born per woman, subsequent kids must be adopted.

[edwrmelo]

03:14 PM on 11/18/2012

Bachmann thats exactly what this country needs is to have a 2 kid limit to every family. We have to many people on this planet as it is, where is the food going to come from, the money to support them. Kennedy wanted to do this back in 1966 I believe put a 2 kid to a family and if anything happened to one they could have another. Responsible people only have 2 to 3 children but look at some of these people having 8 kids and on welfare and they can't support them so have some common sense a child limit is a good idea.

[cpl3030]

07:47 AM on 11/18/2012

Recent studies have proven that the sound of Bachmann's voice can cure heterosexuality.

[nnealj1]

02:30 AM on 11/18/2012

Why are we even giving any attention to this woman???

[Rogell]

10:58 PM on 11/17/2012

I thought we already had this discussion. The people have spoken...

[Raul Lopez]

10:23 PM on 11/17/2012

Yo Michele! Stop! Just stop. You clearly are able to fool the stupid people of Minnesota but the rest of America? Not at all. Cork it shelly.

[jamieson44]

12:42 AM on 05/29/2012

The GOP likes to instill paranoia into their rhetoric, to them it's the American way. Nearly every 1st world country has some sort of national health care and has had it for years. Not one of these countries have put restrictions on the number of children, interfered with any personal choice or divulged any medical history. What makes this totally ignorant woman feel that we would be any different. I saw a newspaper head line a few years back that read "The Dumbing Down of America". Unfortunately I see this trend continuing.

[aviana]

04:38 AM on 04/01/2012

whateverrrrrr

[jltjlt9]

08:06 PM on 03/19/2012

Michelle is correct. Once the White House gets away with dictating health care provisions, they could easily say next that they will only allow or pay for one baby per couple. But it must also be acknowledged that the Government, not the doctor, will have sensitive material on you which you may not wish them to know. How many sex partners you have. What diseases you have, how many operations you had or what other problems you may have in the future and if you are infectious or not with some incurable strain of virus like HPV, AIDS or Herpes to name some. Pictures and photographs on some government data base instead of what the privacy of your personal position who has discression. Once this cat is out of the bag, there is no going back. Women are the most vulnerable. You do not want the government in your pants or dictating what health care you will receive. Mandating the pill, abortion drugs and contraception, if the White House is sucessful with dictating this agenda will be just the beginning. Women do not even want to open this door.

[dorachell]

01:38 AM on 11/18/2012

This is really stupid. Healthcare reform does not "mandate the pill, abortion drugs, or contraception." It mandates availability and choice. No one has to use any of those things who doesn't wish to do so. This is just yet another example of Teapublican irrelevant fear tactics that don't seem to be working so well anymore. None of the other major, non-communist countries in the world, that enjoy universal health-care, limit numbers of children; nor do they care, I'm quite sure, about how many sexual partners you've had or from what afflicaiton you might suffer......Paranoid, ridiculous nonsense. Fortunately, the elesctorate appears to be getting a bit more informed and less prone to be swayed by these moronic scare tactics.......Your party needs to start having a postive platform that actually appeals to intelligen people, of all walks of life, rather than counting on untruthful attacks and trying to inspire fear in the shallow end of the gene pool to win major elections.

[necrigler1984]

09:22 AM on 11/18/2012

I agree completely.

[duzntmatr]

04:44 AM on 11/18/2012

You might want to stock up on the "rations" Glenn Beck advertises. Fruit baskets and ready to eat meals; all you need is hot water.

[Kirtai]

08:13 AM on 03/09/2012

In the world of organized debate competition, that is a stand out example of the Slippery Slope Fallacy, and any high school debate team that has even a rudimentary understanding of debate would rip that argument to pieces in the cross. Glad the actual world of debate is not as demanding as high school competition.

[Sophist FCD]

03:29 AM on 03/09/2012

"The federal government will only pay for one baby to be born in the hospital per family, or two babies to be born per family."

Um, even if that were even REMOTELY likely, why is that a problem? Aren't Republicans trying to get government OUT of paying for medical stuff? "Don't have babies if you can't afford the hospital bills" sounds an awful lot like a Republican talking point to me. Is she just worried Obama will steal it before she can use it or something?

[ehrhrdtjul]

10:33 AM on 11/18/2012

Yes indeed. I Think we should only stop Republican women from having babys.
She is out of her mind. LOL.

[Don Clanton]

02:32 AM on 03/09/2012

If we need a reason to despise John McCain, here it is. He opened the gate by inviting SP to be VP. Politics will never be the same.

[retromega]

02:29 AM on 03/09/2012

Michelle Bachmann, what a piece of work! She spend her entire two years as a congress woman running for president instead of serving her district. During that entire time she claimed that she would not run for congress again. Now guess who wants to keep the job she spent two years not doing.

Yes crazy talk wants more time on stage! She can't sing, she can't dance. but by God she is crazy as a loon. Yes she makes and excellent Representative for her district!

[poobah]

08:45 PM on 03/08/2012

Her ability to grasp the obvious never ceases to amaze me.

[Juda Farmer]

08:42 PM on 03/08/2012

Obama is preparing us for our Chinese rulers.....