<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div><div align="center" style="font-family: Times; "><table bgcolor="#FFFFFF" border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><tbody><tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="1" align="center"><table border="0" width="600" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 600px; "><tbody><tr><td width="100%" rowspan="1" colspan="1" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "></td></tr><tr><td bordercolor="#1D0445" rowspan="1" colspan="1" style="border-top-color: rgb(29, 4, 69); border-right-color: rgb(29, 4, 69); border-bottom-color: rgb(29, 4, 69); border-left-color: rgb(29, 4, 69); padding-top: 2px; padding-right: 2px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; "><table border="0" bordercolor="#1D0445" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-top-color: rgb(29, 4, 69); border-right-color: rgb(29, 4, 69); border-bottom-color: rgb(29, 4, 69); border-left-color: rgb(29, 4, 69); border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; "><tbody><tr><td bgcolor="#1D0445" width="598" rowspan="1" colspan="4" style="background-color: rgb(29, 4, 69); width: 598px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><table width="100%" id="content_LETTER.BLOCK1" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0" border="0" tabindex="0" cellspacing="0" cols="0" cellpadding="0" aria-level="0" datapagesize="0"><tbody><tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><div align="center" style="text-align: center; "> <br><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 24pt; ">Feminists for Life of America</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#1D0445" width="596" rowspan="1" colspan="4" style="background-color: rgb(29, 4, 69); width: 598px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; "><table width="100%" id="content_LETTER.BLOCK2" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0" border="0" tabindex="0" cellspacing="0" cols="0" cellpadding="0" aria-level="0" datapagesize="0"><tbody><tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="1" align="left" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding-left: 5px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; padding-right: 5px; text-align: left; "><b><br></b></td><td rowspan="1" colspan="1" align="right" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding-left: 5px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; padding-right: 5px; text-align: right; "><b>June 28, 2012</b></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td bgcolor="#1D0445" valign="top" width="160" rowspan="1" colspan="1" align="center" style="background-color: rgb(29, 4, 69); width: 0px; "></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#9999CC" width="1" rowspan="1" colspan="1" style="background-color: rgb(153, 153, 204); width: 1px; "></td><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" valign="top" width="435" rowspan="1" colspan="1" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); width: 595px; "><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td width="100%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><table border="0" width="100%" tabindex="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" id="content_LETTER.BLOCK16" style="margin-bottom: 6px; display: table; "><tbody><tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="1" align="left" style="text-align: left; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Arial Black', 'Avant Garde'; ">Feminists for Life on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act </span></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Arial Black', 'Avant Garde'; "> </span></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Feminists for Life has never pretended to have expertise in the delivery of health care services. We do not. But we have heard the voices of women who mourn from their abortion. We listen to the victims of sexual assault and domestic violence. We hear the needs of women who are pregnant and need help. And we listen to the pleas of parents and birthparents.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><br>Like most Americans, we are pleased with some key elements of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act as they relate to our mission, which is to systematically address the unmet needs of women that would otherwise drive them to abortion-especially practical resources and support. So we are pleased that parents may keep their children on their health care until age 26, especially since so many are in college. And we are pleased that preexisting conditions will not exclude victims of domestic violence from obtaining coverage.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><br>Feminists for Life does not support abortion because it is both anti-woman and anti-child. Therefore we do not support abortion coverage in health care. </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><br>Two years ago President Obama signed an executive order banning federal funding for abortions in health care reform and extended the restrictions to the newly created health care insurance exchanges.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><br>Under the current law, federal funds cannot go toward abortion except in cases of rape, incest and when the life of the pregnant woman is at risk. However, in March 2012, the US Department of Health and Human Services issued a </span><span style="text-decoration: underline; "><a shape="rect" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline; ">final rule</a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "> regarding establishment of the state health care exchanges required under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (</span><span style="text-decoration: underline; "><a shape="rect" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline; ">PL 111-148</a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">): </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><br>A health insurance exchange is a set of state-regulated and standardized health care plans in the United States, from which individuals may purchase health insurance eligible for federal subsidies. Under Federal law, all exchanges must be fully certified and operational by January 1, 2014. </span></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "> </span></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">As authorized by P.L. 111-148, the final rule provides for taxpayer funding of insurance coverage that includes elective abortion. This departure from the longstanding policy is accomplished through an accounting arrangement described in the Affordable Care Act and reiterated in the final rule.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><br>To comply with the accounting requirement, plans will collect a $1 abortion surcharge from each premium payer. The enrollee will make two payments, $1 per month for abortion and another payment for the rest of the services covered. As described in the rule, <span style="text-decoration: underline; ">the surcharge can only be disclosed to the enrollee at the time of enrollment. Furthermore, insurance plans may only advertise the total cost of the premiums without disclosing that enrollees will be charged a $1 per month fee to pay directly to subsidize abortions.</span></span></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "> </span></p><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">If abortion were such a great thing, why keep this coverage such a secret?</div><ul style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">The final rule mentioned, but did not address concerns about abortion coverage in "multi-state" plans administered by the Federal Government's Office of Personal Management (OPM). There is nothing in the Affordable Care Act to prevent some OPM (government administered) plans from covering elective abortion, and questions remain about whether OPM multi-state plans will include elective abortion. If such plans do include abortion, there are concerns that the abortion coverage will even be offered in states that have prohibited abortion coverage in their state exchanges. The final rule indicates "Specific standards for multi-state plans will be described in future rulemaking published by OPM..." </li></ul><ul style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt; ">To coverage for abortifacients, FFL is concerned that coverage could expand to RU-486, known to have caused the death of women as well as unborn children. </li></ul><ul style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Multi-state plans run by the Office of Personnel Management that are subsidized partially by taxpayers--and against the will of many--will still be allowed to cover abortion. </li></ul><ul style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Funding for abortion training is not excluded from the Teaching Health Graduate Medical Education program. We oppose forcing of medical students to be trained in abortion or forcing them to watch or participate in the procedure. (Although they must learn about it in order to save women who are injured from the medical and surgical abortions.) </li></ul><ul style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has no conscience protection for individuals or employers like Feminists for Life. </li></ul><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline; "><em>Good upon bad is never good enough.</em></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "> Therefore, we urge our elected leaders to remember the woman--as well as the child-and resolve the problems while still implementing pro-woman, pro-child solutions.</span></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "> </span></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Because women deserve better,</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><img height="52" vspace="5" name="ACCOUNT.IMAGE.39" border="0" hspace="5" width="102" src="cid:9F551DAA-2527-4BFC-AB41-E41DD68DB2A2"> </span></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "> </span></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Serrin M. Foster</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">President</span></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "> </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "> </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "> </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "> </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "> </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "> </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "> </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "> </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "> </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "> </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "> </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span> </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "> </p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td width="100%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><table bgcolor="#9999CC" border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="background-color: rgb(153, 153, 204); "><tbody><tr><td height="1" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td></tr></tbody></table><a name="LETTER.BLOCK24"></a><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" id="content_LETTER.BLOCK22" style="margin-bottom: 6px; "><tbody><tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="1" align="left" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: left; "><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><a shape="rect" href="http://ui.constantcontact.com/sa/fwtf.jsp?m=1103027404175&a=1110357643994&ea=galliher%40illinois.edu" target="_blank"><img border="0" alt="Forward to a Friend" height="20" width="150" src="cid:B5271725-C881-4E93-AA26-91BEC359491F"></a> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><table bgcolor="#9999CC" border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="background-color: rgb(153, 153, 204); "><tbody><tr><td height="1" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td></tr></tbody></table><a name="LETTER.BLOCK18"></a><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" id="content_LETTER.BLOCK18" style="margin-bottom: 6px; "><tbody><tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="1" align="center" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">"Abo</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">rtion is a reflection that we have not met the needs of women. Women deserve better than abortion." </span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">REFUSE TO CHOOSE<sup>®</sup></span></div><div style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">WOMEN DESERVE BETTER<sup>®</sup></span></div><p style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "> </p><div style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Say NO to the Status Quo<sup>TM</sup></span></div><p style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "> </p><div style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">............................................</span></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> </p><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Feminists for Life is a nonpartisan, nonsectarian, 501(c)3 organization. </span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">All</span> <a track="on" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001dHbzmyW0nLj9zY0OwTtNo6a4EWLgL0fcM_uMMlkHfTwHo0Z-sifGIQ5BmyA3wM9SlKvN6Y-0Fm8xPs8LBBaodCHIcxvmNNN-4in7gFvFyy_GJIEceX_RQ1Mjq6fahz-0reLLJNpQAZM=" shape="rect" linktype="link" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 0, 102); text-decoration: underline; ">donations</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "> and</span> <a track="on" shape="rect" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001dHbzmyW0nLgucJ5KUyqApZ5IyxWXjI8IFRpREbgOIatVDuHxCkRSAZECF2TXUGp0JmUj7YxS1PtXJsrwA-yK16E3PhcBA9cxRGIabyzSYLXbHtHLrEmFzOTYLFee4SR55E5V1lX5K8A=" linktype="link" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 0, 102); text-decoration: underline; ">membership contributions</a> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. </span></span></div><p align="center" style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "> </span></p><div style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Refuse to Choose and Women Deserve Better are</span> <a track="on" shape="rect" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001dHbzmyW0nLhaAnx4LCCadWPX8buXX-EMklucTMJsArsnCx0A1M1PLdECi4Iq_Yp0v5ufsNKH4e4KgF7QwMS1XvEiWBVLf5sFr8Q4JPDKSMNzN3X1YlBVZ1bK-UmBcdgev_rmHj2iIbE=" linktype="link" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 0, 102); text-decoration: underline; ">registered trademarks </a> </span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 8pt; ">of Feminists for Life of America.</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td width="100%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td height="10" width="100%" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div align="center" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Times; position: static; z-index: auto; "><img height="1" width="1" src="cid:4EC1C936-FE8D-4EB6-B7E8-2162E1CFE883"></div></div></body></html>