Sunday, March 21, 2010

Obama Executive Order On Abortion Shows Reid Bill Was Always An Abortion Bill.

Nevada LIFE News Release March 21, 2010


Obama Executive Order On Abortion Shows Reid Bill Was Always An Abortion Bill.

· Reid Knew All Along That Health Care Bill Funded Abortion.
· Executive Order Worthless And Will Not Trump Statutory Law.
· Orders Can Be Changed, Revoked. Obama Not Trustworthy On Abortion.
· Unenforceable Order Will Be New Roe v. Wade.


The following statement can be attributed to Nevada LIFE President Don Nelson:

The agreement between President Obama and Bart Stupak to issue an executive order to prevent government funding of abortion is an admission that the health care bill funds abortion. It also admits that the Hyde Amendment does NOT cover the health care reform bills. Obama's promise of an executive order also demonstrates that Obama, Pelosi and Reid's nine months of insistence that the health care bill is not about abortion, is not an abortion bill, that the status quo on abortion will not change, that the Hyde Amendment would prevent health care funding of abortion, that there will be no funding of abortion and calling pro-lifers liars for doing so shows a callous disregard for the truth and open contempt for the public.

The deal Stupak struck with Obama is worthless. First, the "statutory requirements and defects are not subject to correction or nullification by the chief executive or his appointees, whether by Executive Order, regulation, or otherwise."


Second, even if an executive order could nullify or correct the statutory abortion funding provisions, it can be revoked or changed. The President, along with Senator Harry Reid who is solely responsible for the Reid Senate health care bill, is dishonest when it comes to abortion. The president has misrepresented, misled, obfuscated and lied about his record on abortion, and along with Senator Reid, is guilty of the same regarding the abortion provisions of the bill and about pro-life advocates who have claimed the bill covers abortion with government funds. Mr. Obama's assurance and word to opponents of government funding of abortion (along with Harry Reid's) are worthless.


The Hyde Amendment stopped the government from paying for 300,000 abortions a year. Passage of the Reid health care reform bill will lead to the largest increase of abortions since Roe.

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Saturday, March 20, 2010

Vote To Fund Abortion & Ration Health Care Imminent.


Time is short. The United States government is on the verge of paying for and subsidizing abortion, and rationing health care. The health care bill poses another Roe v. Wade on America and will prove to be as difficult to remove as Roe.


·  Vote To Fund Abortion & Ration Health Care Imminent. How You Can Help


The flurry of emails from abortion leaders today tells us that the health care bill funds and covers abortion.

Nancy Northrup of The Center for Reproductive Rights, "Last night we learned that Rep. Bart Stupak filed a new resolution in his effort to ban abortion coverage."

Nancy Keenan from NARAL Pro-Choice America says "late last night we learned that Rep. Bart Stupak has reached new lows in trying to force his abortion- coverage ban into the health-care bill."

Cecile Richards of Planned Parenthood "Right now, congressional negotiations over the final details of the health care reform bill are going on behind closed doors - and Congressman Bart Stupak is still insisting that the final bill include his total ban on private health insurance coverage for abortion."


In addition to funding abortion, the bill will also ration health care for seniors and would allow the secretary of health and human services to prevent them from escaping rationing with their own funds or supplemental insurance.


There are some things we can do at the last minute.


1. We need to pray. These kinds of evils require prayer.

2. The Susan B. Anthony list says these congressmen are still undecided. Kathy Dahlkemper, Marcy Kaptur, Paul Kanjorski, Baron Hill, Solomon Ortiz, Earl Pomeroy, Chris Carney, Lincoln Davis, Alan Mollohan. Call them at the capitol switch board at 877-762- 8762 or 202-225-3121. If it's busy, keep dialing several times today and tomorrow and jam the switchboard.

3. Pro-life Democrat Bart Stupak (202 225-4735) needs and deserves our support and praise. Congressman Stupak is standing against his party, his president, the media, and we suspect, many pro- life democrats.

4. Call and email Nevada Congresswomen Shelly Berkley and Dina Titus and tell them that you oppose any health care bill that funds abortion and that you support the right of people to supplement Medicare with additional insurance or their own personal assets. Contact info is in the side bar.


The health care bill is another Roe v. Wade. The president is showing that he is an abortion radical. He is willing to risk health care for abortion. Time is short. Please make your voice heard and spread the word.



 

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Reid Health Care Bill Is A Massive Abortion Funding Bill. Ten Ways The Reid Bill Funds Abortion.

Despite claims to the contrary, President Barack Obama, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Harry Reid all know that the Senate Health Care Bill under consideration is a massive abortion funding and subsidization bill that will radically change the long standing widely accepted public policy of not using government funds for abortion.


They also know that the Hyde Amendment will not apply to government funding of abortion through health care. Hyde is a yearly rider that prohibits abortion funding through Medicaid. The Reid bill is not abortion neutral, will increase abortion access at government expense and does not contain adequate conscience protections.


Ten Ways The Reid Bill Funds Abortion:


1. It directly funds community health care centers, of which Planned Parenthood would be a beneficiary. $11 billion has been set aside for community health care centers with no restrictions to prevent abortion coverage. Abortion advocates are already discussing how these centers can use these funds to pay for abortion and are campaigning for these centers to perform abortions.


2. The Reid bill subsidizes health care plans which cover abortion. These plans will cover tens of millions of people.


3. Massive pools of money are appropriated with no abortion restrictions. National Right to Life says “The Senate bill contains additional pools of directly appropriated funds that are not covered by any limitations regarding abortion, including $5 billion for a temporary high-risk health insurance pool program (Sec. 1101 on pages 45-52) and $6 billion in grants for health co-ops (Sec. 1322, pp. 169-180).”


4. Bureaucrats are granted authority to force health care plans to cover abortion. It does not mandate that they do so, but it gives them the authority. Its hard to see how a president like Barack Obama, who opposed protections for children born during an abortion and promised Planned Parenthood that abortion would be part of health care, would not appoint someone to mandate abortion coverage. The Mikulski Amendment to the Reid bill would require insurers to cover any preventative service. Abortion will be defined as a preventative service and private health care plans will be forced to cover abortions.


5. Plans in the Federal Employees Health Benefits program will be allowed to cover abortion. No federal plan is currently allowed to cover abortion.


6. There is no restriction on abortion in the Indian Health program.


7. Restrictions related to direct funding (not to be confused with subsidies) of abortion are attached to the status of the Hyde amendment. These restrictions on direct funding will remain in place as long as the Hyde amendment, which bans funding of abortions through Medicare, continues to be reauthorized every year. These restrictions will disappear if the Hyde amendment is not reauthorized.


8. There’s an abortion mandate. At least one subsidized health care plan in every area will be required to cover abortion.


9. Enrollees in government subsidized insurance plans will be required to pay an abortion surcharge whether or not they agree with abortion. If an employer CHOOSES that plan, employees must take it or leave it.


10. The Reid bill allows states to opt out of abortion covering plans, but even where that may happen, residents of those states will still be required to pay for abortions in other states.


Obama, Pelosi and Reid’s insistence that the health care bill is not about abortion, is not an abortion bill, that the status quo on abortion will not change and that there will be no funding of abortion shows a callous disregard for the truth and open contempt for the public.