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President Obama, Pelosi, Reid launch big push for pro-abortion health bill!
| Tell lawmakers that you oppose the massive Obama-backed health bills
WASHINGTON (Updated February 26, 2010, 5 PM EST) - President
Obama and top Democratic congressional leaders have launched a final all-out
push to enact a massive health care restructuring bill that, among other
things, contains sweeping pro-abortion provisions.
The Senate passed the pro-abortion legislation (H.R. 3590)
on December 24. However, so far the White House and Democratic leaders have
been unable to muster the votes to pass the bill in the House of
Representatives, partly because of resistance to the pro-abortion provisions
among House pro-life Democrats, led by Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mi.), and vigorous
opposition from the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) and others.
The White House game plan was disrupted on January 19, when
Republican Scott Brown captured the U.S. Senate seat that had been held for
decades by Senator Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.). The outcome was widely viewed as a
reflection of public opposition to the sweeping approaches to health care
restructuring that the Obama Administration and top congressional Democrats
have made a top priority.
Nevertheless, President Obama and the top leaders of his party on Capitol Hill
have regrouped and are going all out to try to push the legislation into law.
"We will pass a bill," vowed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca.) on
February 22. Democrats currently control the 435-member House by a
77-seat margin.
In recent weeks, NRLC lobbyists have been busy educating members
of the House about why the Senate-passed bill is the most pro-abortion single
piece of legislation ever to reach the floor of the House for a vote since Roe
v. Wade. A showdown vote in the House is likely to occur before the
end of March. Please click here to learn what you can do to prevent
enactment of this destructive legislation.
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A showdown vote in the House is
likely to occur before the end of March!
| President Obama and top Democratic congressional leaders
have launched a final all-out push to enact a massive health care restructuring
bill that, among other things, contains sweeping pro-abortion provisions.
The Senate passed the pro-abortion legislation
(H.R. 3590) on December 24. However, so far the White House and Democratic
leaders have been unable to muster the votes to pass the bill in the House of
Representatives, partly because of resistance to the pro-abortion provisions
among House pro-life Democrats, led by Rep. Bart Stupak, and vigorous opposition
from the National Right to Life Committee and others.
House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi is currently involved in writing a new bill that would make certain
changes to H.R. 3590, using a fast-track procedure called "reconciliation" that
would not be subject to a Republican filibuster in the Senate. This so-called
"sidecar" bill will include some of the changes that President Obama wants made
to the Senate bill, as contained in a list released by the White House on
February 22. However, the changes proposed by President Obama would fix NONE
of the abortion problems in the Senate-passed bill.
This is no time to relax. Each member of the
House should be urged to oppose the Senate-passed health bill (H.R. 3590),
no matter what cosmetic changes are proposed or promised, because of the
provisions that would result in abortion mandates and abortion subsidies. It is
especially important that House Democrats who voted for the Stupak-Pitts
Amendment on November 7, 2009, hear from constituents in opposition to the
Senate bill.
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Here is what you can do right now to prevent enactment of
this destructive legislation:
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E-MAIL --Visit NRLActionCenter.com and take a few
minutes to use the form there to send messages to your U.S. House member and to
your two U.S. senators to urge them to oppose the health care legislation backed
by President Obama. You can modify the suggested message as you see fit -- for
example, to offer your views on other components of the legislation, including
those relating to rationing of lifesaving medical treatments. When you fill in
your mailing address, your messages will automatically be directed to the
appropriate U.S. House member and to your two U.S. senators.
CALL -- Also, telephone the offices of your U.S. House member.
Give your name and address, and tell the lawmaker's staff person that you wish
to be recorded as "opposed to the Senate health care legislation, H.R. 3590,
because the bill contains multiple pro-abortion provisions and is unacceptable."
The offices of any House member can be reached through 202-225-3121. You can
also find the direct-dial numbers (and fax numbers) for the Washington and
in-state offices of your representative by clicking here.
WRITE -- Send short letters to the "letters to the editor"
features of your local newspapers, in order to alert your fellow pro-life
citizens to the pro-abortion policies that the Obama White House and the
pro-abortion lobby are trying to smuggle into law through "health care reform."
Click here for an easy to use
"Media Guide" on the NRLC website.
DONATE -- Florida Right to
Life needs your help... now more than ever. Please click here to support our
fight to keep abortion out of health care.
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