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NRLC Health Care Up-Date

July 10, 2009
from Douglas Johnson, NRLC Legislative Director

The two central healthcare reform bills currently moving in Congress – the Kennedy bill and the House Democratic leadership bill – each contain provisions that would, if enacted, represent the greatest expansion of abortion since the Supreme Court handed down its Roe v. Wade ruling legalizing abortion in 1973. These bills contain multiple provisions that would result in federally mandated insurance coverage of abortion on demand, massive federal subsidies for abortion, mandated creation of many new abortion clinics, and nullification of at least some state limitations on abortion.

During the week of July 19, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee is expected to consider a number of NRLC-supported amendments offered by Republican senators that would remove the pro-abortion mandates and subsidies from the Kennedy bill. House committees will consider similar amendments during markups of the House Democratic leadership bill, which is also planned for that week.

On July 9, Cong. Chris Smith (R-NJ), co-chairman of the House Pro-Life Caucus, distributed to his colleagues a letter. He gave them a collection of statements by Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and five pro-abortion organizations confirming their intent to greatly expand access to abortion on demand using healthcare reform as a vehicle.

If President Obama, congressional Democratic leaders, and the abortion advocacy groups were to succeed in mandating vast expansions of access to abortion with federal funding, the predictable result would be a great increase in the number of abortions performed – this, from a president who assured the American people that he would pursue policies to reduce abortion.

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Obama IS "FOR" Abortion

Obama's anti-life track record is all-out war against the unborn

May 4, 2009
from Dauneen Dolce, PAC Chairman, Lobbyist

I must say I am fed up with people who are trying to say that President Obama is not for abortion just because he wants abortion legal. If someone doesn't want abortion, one does not support it, encourage and entrench it as this president has done.

Obama is supported with money and political ties with the abortion industry. He takes money from those who profit off the innocent dead, unborn babies. His whole administration has the same anti-life philosphy, and his agenda is to promote, subsidize and, yes, encourage abortion.

Here is his track record. Read this and tell me he is not “for” abortion. If you still believe that, you have to have rationalized your thinking and his thinking to a point of no relativity. These are not acts to make fewer abortions; this is all-out war against the unborn. Obama's track record »

PowerPoint show on health care reform presented by Paul Gessing of Rio Grande Foundation at RTLCNM Education Conference in Albuquerque on April 4.

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