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House Democrats Will Likely Prevent Vote to Remove Abortion From Health CareWashington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- When members of Congress return from their August recess, the first battle over the abortion funding found in the health care bills will occur in the House. There, it appears Democratic leaders will prevent a vote on an amendment to remove the abortion funding from the bill. The House version of the health care bill, HR 3200, currently allows a scheme whereby the federal government will pay for abortions under the plan. Rep. Bart St
upak has announced that he will sponsor an amendment on the House floor to change that, similar to the one members of a House panel defeated. But, House members may never have a chance to vote on the Stupak amendment to stop taxpayer-financed abortions because it appears House Democrats won't allow it. In an interview this week, pro-abortion Rep. Louise Slaughter, who chairs the House Rules Committee, said there won't be many
changes to the three versions of the bill that the House panels each approved. "I don't foresee a lot of changes from what came out of committee," Slaughter said at a press conference. Full story at LifeNews.com
ACTION: Contact members of the House and Senate and urge strong support for any amendment to exclude abortion and rationing from their health care bills. Ask them to oppose any health care bill that allows abortion funding or rationing. Call 202-224-3121 or go to http://www.House.gov and http://www.Senate.gov for specific contact information.
White House Under Fire for Sending Unsolicited Emails Promoting Health Care Bills
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The White House is coming under fire for sending an unkn
own number of Americans unsolicited emails promoting the pro-abortion health care bills in Congress. Numerous readers of LifeNews.com have complained that they have received emails coming from a top Obama staffer promoting the legislation. While President Barack Obama was in Montana promoting the pro-abortion government-run health care plan to willing listeners, some who don't want the White House's spin are getting it anyway. The White House maintains a massive email list as part of its efforts to promote Obama's agenda and senior adviser David Axelrod used the list to send out em
ails to people on Thursday promoting the bills. The emails asked people to help Obama rebut criticism of the legislation, which pro-life advocates explain includes taxpayer-funded abortions and could promote assisted suicide and health care rationing. Axelrod wrote that opponents of the bills are relying on tactics including "viral e-mails that fly unchecked and under the radar, spreading all sorts of lies." "So let's start a chain of e-mail of our own," he said.
Some of the people who got emails and notified LifeNews.com said they had never sent an email to the White House before and don't know how they were placed in Obama's database. Full story at LifeNews.com
Catholic Bishops, Congressman: Allow Vote to Cut Abortion Funding From Bill
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A leading pro-life congressman and the nation's Catholi
c bishops are asking House Democratic leaders to allow a vote on an amendment that would cut the taxpayer-funding of abortions found in one of the three House health care bills that will be voted
on after the Congressional recess. As LifeNews.com reported today, House Democrats appear unlikely to allow a vote on an amendment from pro-life Reps. Bart Stupak, a Michigan Democrat, and Rep. Joe Pitts, a Pennsylvania Republican, to remove abortion funding from HR 3200. At the end of a letter Cardinal Justin Rigali, the head of the pro-life office of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, sent to members of the House, he urges allowing a vote on the amendment. He explained that, under the bill, "federal taxpayer funds will subsidize the operating budget and provider networks that expand access to abortions." "Government will force low-income Americans to subsidize abortions for others (and abortion coverage for themselves) even if they find abortion morally abhorrent," Cardinal Rigali explained. "I urge you to help ensure that any legisla
tion that comes up for a vote in the full House does not include these unacceptable features. Please support amendments to correct them, and oppose any rule for consideration of H.R. 3200 that would block such amendments," the Catholic leader continued. Full story at LifeNews.com
New York Daily News Joins Media in Abortion-Health Care Funding Coverup
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The New York Daily News is the latest mainst
ream media outlet to join the group of those covering up the taxpayer funding of abortions found in the Congressional government-run health care bills. The News claims that abortion funding isn't found in the bill, but a Catholic pro-life group notes otherwise. It's declaration follows news articles from the Associated Press, CBS News, and New York Times also making similar false claims. "None of the bills working their way through Congress provides any federal funds for abortion," the News reports. But Catholic League president Bill Donohue says nothing could be further from
the truth. "In today's New York Daily News, there is an article seeking to debunk various myths about the health care bills. Unfortunately, the two reporters were guilty of floating the myth," he tells LifeNews.com. "Thus does the Daily
News join a list of other media outlets that have disseminated this nonsense; AP had the decency to reverse itself." Full story at LifeNews.com
New York Times Attacks Washington Times on "Death Panels" Reporting, Obama
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- In a rare case of one media outlet attacking another, the pro-abortion New York Times is going after the Washington Times, one of the few newspapers with a pro-life editorial perspective. The liberal New York paper is accusing the Times of misreporting the concerns about the "death panels" found in the House and Senate health care bills and claims th
e paper has an anti-Obama bias. In a Friday news story, the "Gray Lady" devoted column space to rebutting the concerns pro-life advocates have about the advanced care planning found in the bills that could promote assisted suicide and rationing. Tucked away in the news story is a slap at the Washington paper. Full story at LifeNews.com
Medical Center Won't Let LeRoy Carhart Take Late-Term Abortion Patients There
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Wesley Medical Center in Wichita, Kansas has announced that it will not allow LeRoy Carhart to admit patients there who may suffer from botched abortions. The decision is significant because it could prevent Carhart from opening up a new late-term abortion business in town. Carhart current runs an abortion center outside Omaha, Nebraska and had worked with late-term abortion practitioner George Tiller before he was shot and killed by someone not affiliated with the pro-life movement. Carhart wants to replace Tiller and open up his own abortion facility in Wichita, but he needs an agreement with a local medical clinic to do so, because women injured by botched abortions need to be able to receive immediate medical care. Just hours after Operation Rescue launched a petition to ask local residents to contact Wesley to ask its officials to deny that relationship, WMC said it will not allow Carhart to admit patients. Operation Rescue president Troy Newman told LifeNews.com on Friday that member of the hospital's administrative staff contacted him about the decision and indicated WMC would be willing to issue a statement in agreement with that request. Full story at LifeNews.com
Obama and His Science Advisor John Holdren Must Renounce Population Control
by Colin Mason 
John P. Holdren thinks babies will be the death of us all. Normally, one man's opinion would not matter terribly, but Mr. Holdren happens to be President Obama's Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; Assistant to the President for Science and Technology; and Co-Chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. Or, in short, as the president's "Science Czar," Holdren is an official member of the Executive Branch, and holds very real sway over federal operations related to science. In other words, this is the man who will be driving American policy on scientific matters for the next 4, possibly 8 years. We find this thought alarming, since even a perfunctory glance at his record shows that he holds radically alarmist views about human overpopulation, views that lean far beyond simple leftism into uncomfortably totalitarian territory. Full story at LifeNews.com
Pro-Life College Students Meet in Washington After Nationwide Walk on Abortion
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Three groups of pro-life college students will converge in the nation's capital on Saturday after spending months in a cross-country walking trip to bring awareness about the horrors of abortion. This weekend, 40 young people walking with the pro-life group Crossroads, will conclude their journey. The students encountered a warm welcome and outpouring of support from pro-life Americans as they passed through 36 states, thousands of municipalities, towns and cities, and logged 10,000 miles collectively during the summer pilgrimage. James Nolan, president and chief counsel of Crossroads Pro-Life, told LifeNews.com today that the trip reinforced the polling data out recently showing a majority of Americans are pro-life. "While the latest polling data is encouraging, we have long known that America is a pro-life country because, unlike polls that take a small, phone-based sample, we have had the advantage of directly interacting with thousands of Americans," he said. "And the support for the rights of the innocent, unborn has always been in the majority." Full story at LifeNews.com
Woman in Rick Pitino Abortion Scandal Says He Forced Her, Documents Say No
Louisville, KY (LifeNews.com) -- University of Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino has found himself caught up in a sex scandal in which he allegedly had sex with a woman and she had an abortion afterwards. A sordid week had featured his apology, a police investigation and accusations that Karen Sypher tried to extort $10 million from him. Now, Sypher says she had an abortion and that Pitino coerced her into having it after she became pregnant during their affair. The famous coach and Sypher met in August 2003 and she accused Pitino of rape, which police officials have decided not to prosecute for lack of evidence. The scandal has publicly embarrassed the coach and may ultimately cost him his job, though he hopes to retain it. Sypher says two weeks after the couple had sexual relations, she became pregnant. when she confronted Pitino with the news, she tells the New York Post he said he wanted her to get an abortion. But the newspaper indicates paperwork Sypher provided it to prove she had an abortion "contradicts her account" because she checked boxes showing she felt "confident" and "strong" that having the abortion was the right things for her. Full story at LifeNews.com
Wisconsin Medical Society Rejects OKing Assisted Suicide, Pro-Life Group Elated
Madison, WI (LifeNews.com) -- The Wisconsin Medical Society has rejected a measure that would have had the state medial group on record as supporting the practice of assisted suicide. That's good news to Wisconsin Right to Life, the statewide pro-life group that says patients, including the elderly and disabled, must be protected. The Wisconsin Medical Society's Council on Health Care Ethics has rejected a resolution supporting legalizing assisted suicide in the state. Should the state legislature adopt the practice, Wisconsin would become the third to do so, following Oregon and Washington, and potentially the fourth if the Montana Supreme Court upholds a lower court decision to allow it there. Wisconsin Right to Life officials told Lifenews.com they're delighted by the state doctors group's move to reject assisted suicide. Full story at LifeNews.com
North Carolina State Employees Association Bashed for Hiding Abortion Funding
Durham, NC (LifeNews.com) -- Last night, more than 850 residents of this city in North Carolina participated in a health care forum sponsored by the State Employees Association of North Carolina. While residents listened to their congressman, David Price, the union distributed misleading information saying the health care bills don't fund abortions. The issue of whether or not taxpayer funds would be used to publicly fund abortion did not surface during the forum. Yet, the State Employees Association of North Carolina's literature merited mention. "There is no part of the House or Senate health care reform bills that mandate abortion coverage in the Exchange," the union claimed. Barbara Holt, the president of North Carolina Right to Life tells LifeNews.com that is false. She says both the House and Senate versions of the government-run health care plan include abortion funding and that amendments to stop it were defeated. Full story at LifeNews.com
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