Special Report/Call to Action: Act Now to Prevent Funding of Abortion in Health Reform Bill

Catholic Online ^ | 10/3/09 | Jennifer Hartline

[tcg]

It all comes down “The Rule.” That’s what I learned Tuesday night during the nationwide webcast hosted by Stop the Abortion Mandate.com. The vote expected this week in Congress is historically critical – and it’s not the vote you might think.

Let me say this as bluntly as I can: The time is NOW. This very minute! If you have not made calls to your Senators and Representatives, if you have not sent e-mails and faxes, this moment in history is calling out to you for action. Do it now.

Nancy Pelosi’s bill, HR 3962, mandates abortion coverage, plain and simple. The public option plan will be run directly by the federal government. Page 110 of the bill explicitly authorizes the public option to pay for abortions. I read through every page of the bill where the word abortion appeared, and I found a lot of confusing double-speak. It’s prohibited here and permitted there...

Abortion proponents want to obscure the fact that the bill allows private insurance plans to receive federal subsidies to cover abortions. In addition to the public option, the bill also ensures that at least one private plan in every area must include abortion coverage, for which they will be subsidized by the federal government via our tax dollars.

Consider this message from Planned Parenthood’s President, Cecile Richards to all Planned Parenthood supporters: “Because of relentless pressure from dedicated supporters like you, every version of the bills out there right now is free of the dangerous amendments anti-choice members of Congress tried to attach to health care reform….Tell your representatives to pass this crucial bill intact, and reject efforts to remove reproductive health care from health reform.”...

[PapaBear3625]

Michelle Bachman; A Call To Storm The Capitol On November 5th, 2009 :

She asked whomever can make it to drive to Wash., DC and meet with her on the west steps of the Capitol to protest on Thursday, 11/5, at 12 Noon. (Remember OUR ”house call” visit to the local offices of our rep and senators’ offices downtown at 11:00AM on that same date!)

[Mrs. Don-o]

Reach the Congressional Switchboard TOLL FREE ---BUT Ignore the recorded message!

Call Congress toll-free 800-828-0498

This is a toll-free line set up by a pro-Obama organization, IGNORE the recorded message but when you reach the switchboard, ask for your Member of Congress.

Your message is simple:

VOTE AGAINST "THE RULE" TODAY.

VOTE IN FAVOR OF THE STUPAK AMENDMENT.

The House MUST allow for floor debate and amendment on HR 3962 (health reform). The Stupak Amendment is essential because abortion is not health care. Nobody is healthier dead. That's the bottom line.

The Stupak Amendment must pass. There must be an opportunity for you in the House to debate and amend!

Vote against "the Rule." Vote IN FAVOR OF debate and amendment. Vote IN FAVOR OF the Stupak Amendment.

(And when you get the opportunity, vote against the whole damned Health Care Reform Bill.)

Thank you.

[Mrs. Don-o]

I absolutely agree: Kill the Bill

See mine at #22. Nifty thrifty TOLL-FREE NUMBER to reach Congressional Switchboard. Paid for by Obama-ites!

[Mrs. Don-o]

I ABSOLUTELY AGREE WITH YOU.

At the same time, voting NO on the ghastly Madame Pelosi no-debate "RULE" will be a trmendous show of strength and keep the Kill-the-Bill momentum rolling.

[RebelTXRose]

No answer at the number given... even after the recorded message.

Called my rep at the local office. He is against this in its entirety and anything that will rush it through without amendments.

He’s a rarity in WNY - Republican... Still doesn’t excuse not attending town halls in August.

[P-Marlowe]

Frankly the bill has less chance of passing if they leave the Abortion Funding in the Bill. If this amendment passes and then the Health care bill is passed (with this amendment giving cover to the blue dogs) then as soon as government run health care is enacted, the abortion provisions will be added later, either by statute or by court decisions.

Hence, personally I'd rather not try to remove this language as part of an amendment as it makes the whole enchilada much harder to swallow. The more cr@p that is in this bill the less chance it has of passing.

I frankly think this is Pelosi's strategy.... Put the bad stuff in that they know will never pass, then remove it in the amendment process and bingo, you get the votes to pass Government Run Healthcare and give cover to the Blue Dogs. Then, after the monster is in place, they put the bad stuff back later.

[Mrs. Don-o]

You may be right in that A NO-ABORTION-FUNDING Bill could provide "cover" for Blue Dogs to vote for the damned Bill itself,--- but on the other hand, the Left-Democrats themselves would then--- I believe --- kill the bill.

Because Abortion is the most sacred thing in their inverted Universe of the Damned.

In my (non-infallible) judgment, a big NO vote on "The Rule" will be a massive show of resistance to the ghastly Madame Pelosi. That will keep the resistance ball rolling. It will electrify and energize the Good Guys by demonstrating that The Obamapower is not invincible. And our no-abortion-funding push MUST be linked with a NO vote on the overall Bill, which deserves to be turned into high-cellulose landfill for about 1,000 good reasons.

[markomalley]

You can get a direct line to members’ offices both in DC and locally by going here: https://ssl.capwiz.com/congressorg/directory/congdir.tt?action=myreps_form

I just called Hoyer’s office (for what it’s worth) (Ashamedly, he’s my representative). A woman with a Brit accent (what’s that about??) said she’d pass it on.

No busy signals, no phone messages, no waits.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Thanks for that great link!

[Running On Empty]

Reading all this—and the “strategies” employed by the left-—I come back to the old adage that “politics is war by another name”.

And this is most certainly a war.

I will act on this as best I can today.

Pope John Paul II and Bl. Mother Teresa, pray for us.

God bless, Mrs. Don-o.

[fightinbluhen51]

Please stop the mass pings. Its front page news. I know it’s important, and we are all doing all we can.

[ExTexasRedhead]

Defeat and kill the entire MengeleCare, the brainchild of Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and the Fuhrer.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[Uncle Chip]

Forget stopping an amendment, stop the frickin’ bill altogether.

Exactly!!! Let them keep abortion in the bill. Let's abort the bill and everything in it.

[mlizzy]

I put up a post on this yesterday and almost no one read it ... it was an e-mail from Eric Scheidler. But thank you for this reminder. I cannot make phone calls (poor hearing), but I'm saying the Rosary. God save us all. Remember the Battle of Lepanto everyone!

[Mrs. Don-o]

I have poor hearing, too. I communicate much better by e-mail and computer/website than by phone.

If you go to your congressman’s website (just google his/her name) you can click on the “contact” link and send a statement via the congressional website message form. If you have any trouble with this, send me your Representative’s name and I will find the message form.

[Just mythoughts]

bttt

[PrayAndVoteConservesInLibsOut]

https://www.aclj.org/Petition/Default.aspx?sc=3480&ac=1

Please go to the above website and sign the petition so that Americans will not be mandated to pay our hard earned money to pay for abortions. “In each committee, Congress has rejected pro-life efforts to keep abortion out of the bills. This means that, if enacted, countless Americans would be forced to buy coverage for abortion even if they don’t want it, and would ensure that government funding for elective abortions is mandated.” This information is from Jay Sekulow’s website the ACLJ.

Thanks!

[Mrs. Don-o]

Thanks for posting this.