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Fact-checking Romney health plan, abortion

By Donald MacGillis

 |  Globe Staff  

  January 07, 2012

Newt Gingrich Thursday night criticized former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney because his health reform law called for the use of taxpayer money to fund abortions. The statement is correct as far as it goes, but the impression it might have created that Massachusetts taxpayers did not subsidize abortions before Romney’s health reform law of 2006 is not correct. For three decades, the state has financed abortions through its Medicaid program.

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