National health care Bill Does Not Exclude Abortions

From: dh Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009

Help keep your tax dollars from funding abortions

Let Lawmakers Know Your Thoughts on Health Care In this week's Focus Action Update™, Stuart Shepard and Ashley Horne give advice and insights on how to offer a pro-life perspective in this month's town hall meetings on health care reform. Visit CitizenLink.org/healthcare Action Center News About Us National health care Bill Does Not Exclude Abortions Congress is out of session now for August recess, but the national health care debate continues to rage on. Currently, both versions of the health care bill in the House and Senate will require abortion coverage funded or subsidized by your tax dollars. And unfortunately, all attempts so far to exclude abortion and include conscience protections for medical professionals who do not want to provide abortions have been defeated. Your legislators are back home, and while there, many will be hosting town hall meetings to talk with constituents about what is going on in our nation's capital. This is a prime opportunity for concerned citizens to meet with their legislators and let them know what they'd like to see happen with health care reform. These meetings will be especially important for those of us who are pro-life because this is our chance to let our legislators know that we do not want our tax dollars to be used to pay for abortions in federally mandated health care. There are two things that we at Focus on the Family Action™ would like to ask you to do during this congressional recess. Take Action Contact your U.S. senators' and representative's district offices and ask them to specifically exclude abortion from the health care reform plan, as well as include specific protections for health care providers' rights of conscience. Then while you have their office on the phone see if they will be hosting a town hall meeting near you that you could attend. Contact information for your representative is available in our Action Center. To find out more about how your tax dollars will be used to fund abortions if any of the current bills are passed, visit CitizenLink.org/healthcare. Focus on the Facts - Two recent polls show that between 63 and 71 percent of Americans favor laws that prevent taxpayer funds from being used for abortions. - Research has consistently shown that when abortions are publicly funded, the number of abortions goes up. But when public funding is reduced or is not available at all, the number of abortions goes down. - Pro-abortion groups are on record as making the inclusion of abortion in any federal health care reform package a priority. They won't settle for anything less. They are getting ready for the biggest expansion of abortion since Roe v Wade in 1973. - An April 8, 2009 poll found 87% of American adults surveyed believed it is important to "make sure that health care professionals in America are not forced to participate in procedures and practices to which they have moral objections."

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