Posted on 12/22/2009 7:11:04 PM PST by Catholic Examiner
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Tuesday morning, the Senate approved the Harry Reid manager's amendment to the government-run health care bill. Reid's amendment includes the so-called "compromise" language he agreed on with embattled Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska that keeps abortion funding in the bill.
The Senate voted on the manager's amendment, number 3276, on a 60-39 vote.
All Democrats in the chamber voted for the amendment while all Republicans, except absent pro-life Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, voted against it.
With the vote today, the Senate now begins 30 hours of post-cloture debate that will continue throughout the day today and tomorrow. The next vote is slated for Wednesday afternoon, when senators will vote on cloture to end debate on the pro-abortion health care bill itself.
The Senate is still expected to vote on the bill on Christmas Eve, although there has been talk this morning of moving up the vote because of further snowstorms across the country.
The amendment makes major changes to the massive abortion funding already found in the bill, as Dorinda Bordlee of the Bioethics Defense Fund explains.
"The Manager’s Amendment does not contain language similar to the pro-life Stupak amendment approved by the House," she told LifeNews.com. "Instead the section on abortion (starting on page 38) adds a provision allowing states to opt out of providing abortion coverage through the exchange and adds further layers of accounting requirements."
"The result remains the same, contrary to longstanding policy, the federal government will subsidize private health insurance plans that cover abortion, and Americans will facilitate abortion by making it more easily available. The result will be more lives lost to abortion and more wounded mothers," she continued.
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With all these snowstorms hitting the country, is it just me or does anyone think that God is trying to tell us something?
Forcing me to pay for abortions through taxes I pay to the federales is, for all practical purposes, an act of war.
Okay, let’s keep the pressure on - especially Nelson. The governor and people of Nebraska are really giving it to him. Let’s add fuel to the fire! Let him know we are not only sick of the corruption of which he is chief benefactor, but we will also be cheering for the Cornhuskers to lose big to the Arizona Wildcats in their upcoming bowl game!
Nelson
bennelson.senate.gov
Phone: (402) 441-4600
Fax: (202) 228-0012
Webb
http://webb.senate.gov
Phone: 202-224-4024
Fax: 202-228-6363
Landrieu
http://landrieu.senate.gov
Phone: (202)224-5824
Fax:(202) 224-9735
Lincoln
http://lincoln.senate.gov
(202) 224-4843
Fax (202) 228-1371
Bayh
http://bayh.senate.gov
Phone: (202) 224-5623
Fax: (202) 228-1377
Lieberman
http://lieberman.senate.gov
Phone: 202.224.4041
Fax: 202.224.9750
keeps abortion funding in the bill? and inholfe voted for it?did i read that right?
This bill to be passed on Christmas Eve will oblige all citizens paying taxes to fund the murder of babies, by act of our government.
The legislation is a mortal sin on a national scale.
So, what about that National General Strike on January 20th?
Agree. I will not pay for abortions. What with people clinging to guns and religion, Mao on a WH “Holiday” tree, and being forced to pay for abortions. We’re becoming Europeans.
thank you...i have flu so not seeing clearly..read it twice and thought i was seeing things
This is what I keep telling people. They’ve declared war on us, it’s time to declare on our government.
Expect a "Greenline Wall" ~
What's your plan?
Is Nelson on crack?
This pro-abortion stuff was always a given with this bill.
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