Latest email message from the VOICE OF DEATH ---> NARAL's Nancy Keenan

Awww, she looks like a sweet grandma who loves little ones. But it is the face and the voice of death.

The House passed an anti-choice measure that would essentially eliminate insurance coverage for abortion in the new system.

Help us fight back and stop the ban on women’s insurance coverage for abortion.

Add your name to our petition to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid by 12 noon (EST) on Friday, November 13.

Anti-choice politics shouldn’t trump women’s health in Congress. It’s unacceptable.

Yet that’s what happened when the House passed the last-minute anti-choice Stupak-Pitts amendment to its health-reform bill.

Sign our petition calling on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to save abortion coverage and ensure that the same ban is not included in the Senate’s bill.

I can’t stress this strongly enough: we must win in the Senate to keep millions of women from losing their private insurance coverage for abortion in the new health-care system.

A vote to ban insurance coverage for abortion in the new system will come down to the wire, so we must call on Majority Leader Reid to stand strong against this attack from the outset.

We need to deliver our petitions to Majority Leader Reid by the end of the week before the bill is brought to the floor, so add your name by 12 noon (EST) on Friday, November 13.

Here is what will happen if the Senate adopts the same Stupak-Pitts amendment that passed in the House bill:

It will be virtually impossible for private insurance companies that participate in the new system to offer abortion coverage to women. This would have the effect of denying women the right to use their own personal, private funds to purchase an insurance plan with abortion coverage in the new health system — a radical departure from the status quo. Presently, more than 85 percent of private insurance plans cover abortion services. We must win in the Senate. That’s why we need to fight back today.

Stand up for women’s access to abortion and sign our petition to Majority Leader Reid.

This is the gem in the bill. Those pro-abort fems thought they would get a great redistribution bill, getting men to pay for their health insurance (they call that anti-discrimination.) But then this thorn in all their sides gets put in , and they still voted for the bill.

Now they must point out that our coverage doesnt NOT stay the same, a Obama lie. And Obama wants this removed too, says he wants the “Status Quo” on abortion. But didnt he say the Status Quo was unacceptable?

Nancy Keenan (born February 14, 1952) is the current president of the United States-based reproductive rights organization NARAL Pro-Choice America.

Keenan was born in Anaconda, Montana. She earned an undergraduate degree in education from Montana State University and master's degree from the University of Montana. Keenan began her career as a special-education teacher( teaching the same kinds of children she would rather see are never born) before winning election to the Montana House of Representatives.[1] In 1988 she won the first of three terms as the statewide elected Superintendent of Public Instruction for Montana. She served until 2000.[2] In 2000, Keenan ran for the Montana at-large seat in the U.S. House of Representatives as a Democrat. She was defeated by Republican Denny Rehberg.[3] From 2003-2004, Keenan worked as the Education Policy Director of the organization People For the American Way (PFAW).

Keenan became president of NARAL Pro-Choice America in 2004.[4] As president, Keenan has advocated for access to abortion, but she has also attempted to change the nature of the debate around reproductive rights issues in the United States. For example, in 2006, she said that while pro-choice and pro-life people don't agree on abortion "we should be able to agree that we can reduce unintended pregnancies" by (as a NARAL ad stated) "guaranteeing women's access to birth control, including the 'morning-after' pill, making sure our kids receive honest, realistic sex education, and increasing support for family-planning services."[5] In a speech presented on the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Keenan asked supporters to acknowledge "a woman's right to choose is a morally complex issue, and a lot less black and white than it’s been made out to be." She discussed the pro-choice position in terms of moral values.[6][7] She reiterated the position that reducing unintended pregnancy is a "core moral value" in her speech at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.[8]

Washingtonian Magazine named Nancy Keenan as one of the 100 most powerful women in Washington, DC in 2006.[9] She has appeared on MSNBC[10] and other news broadcasts, and is frequently quoted by the The Washington Post, The New York Times, Associated Press, and other news services.

Keenan was strongly critical of the Stupak-Pitts Amendment, which places limits on taxpayer-funded abortions in the context of the November 2009 Affordable Health Care for America Act.

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