President Obama has vowed to veto the Protect Life Act
Posted on 10/12/2011 2:08:43 PM PDT by NYer
WASHINGTON, D.C., October 12, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – President Barack Obama has promised to veto a bill strongly backed by pro-life leaders as a last-ditch effort to dodge the potentially massive expansion of abortion under the new federal healthcare reform law.
Majority Leader Eric Cantor announced last week that the Protect Life Act, H.R. 358, will be considered in the House of Representatives on Thursday. The measure would amend President Obama’s Affordable Care Act to reflect the Hyde amendment by prohibiting taxpayer dollars from funding any health plan that includes coverage of elective abortions. The measure retains Hyde’s exception for abortions performed due to the child’s conception in rape or incest or to save the mother’s life.
The bill also makes clear that no health insurance carrier may be forced to provide coverage of abortion in any of its health plans, and strengthens the conscience rights of health care workers and institutions to reject abortion training, procedures, or referrals.
President Obama, whose administration fought vigorously last year to keep Hyde amendment language out of the health care bill, announced that he “strongly opposes” the bill because it “intrudes on women’s reproductive freedom and access to health care,” claiming the health care bill already preserves federal policy against tax funding for abortion.
“H.R. 358 goes well beyond the safeguards found in current law and reinforced in the President’s Executive Order by restricting women’s private insurance choices,” said the White House in a statement Wednesday. “If the President is presented with H.R. 358, his senior advisors would recommend that he veto the bill.”
Pro-life leaders, including the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, contend that the bill is critical for preserving the status quo on abortion and conscience rights in the face of a health reform that promises to drastically alter the landscape of the abortion battle in America.
The health bill has already led to a major expansion of the abortion industry: health officials announced this summer that virtually ever private insurer, including sectarian institutions, would soon be forced to offer free contraception, abortifacient birth control, and sterilization in its health plans as part of an essential “preventive care” package.
Click here to contact members of the House via the National Right to Life Committee.
Ping!
Gods mercy on us as a country
Do it Barry and watch God finish your presidency off with extreme prejudice.
Well, there you go. Someone’s been busy *fundamentally transforming* this country.
God help you Obama.
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Evil continues spewing from the Fiend in Chief, but the worst is that taxpayers - you and me - are or will be forced to pay for evil, and hospitals and other associated health care agents will be forced to provide "services" up to and including the slaughter of the unborn. This has to be fought tooth and nail.
Veto a bill to end the murder of children...or at least restrict the murder? Impeach for high crimes!!!!!!!!!!
Why are they introducing amendments to Obamacare if they are planning to REPEAL the plan?
LOL
Their lies know no bounds.....
Is it to late to abort Obama? He is not a senior citizen yet.
Is there even a need for Congress at all, when this Usurper thinks he's King, and just creates EO's for whatever he wants the Law to be?
Excellent Question!!! Makes ya wonder doesn’t it.
The Protect Life Act is meaningless if it does not protect those babies conceived as a result of rape or the mother’s life being in danger.
All an expectant mother would have to do is to say that she had sex without her full consent and she could then murder her baby.
Or she could simply say, “I will kill myself if I have this baby.”
That should settle any question about his Christianity.
In 465 Days, 22 Hours, 30 Minutes, Obama will be vetoed.
Leni
From your post to God’s ears ... PLEASE, Lord, Please!
It is obvious that He already is doing a hatchet job on this drone. He is going to take much more.
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