o'bamacide - largest expansion of abortion rights & funding since Roe v. Wade

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From:  Focus on the Family

This week, the Senate Finance Committee has been voting on dozens of amendments to the health care reform plan. Despite these votes--and the various versions of the plan working their way through Congress--little national attention has been paid to the impact of the bill on our families.

As we have mentioned in recent weeks, the current health care reform plan will be the greatest expansion of abortion rights and abortion funding since Roe v. Wade. Government health care is also a grave legislative threat to our families because it sets the stage to give government officials unprecedented influence over health care decisions that have always been the responsibility of the family.

While most of the debate over health care reform has ignored the pro-abortion implications, it is clear that the plan will greatly expand abortion availability and require you and me to pay!

The key votes are just now beginning to take place in Congress. Our team has just completed this week's Focus Action Update online video highlighting the votes in the Senate Finance Committee as well as a victory for abstinence-education funding. Click here to view this special report.

This preliminary vote for abstinence-education funding is good news for families because these programs encourage our kids and grandkids to remain abstinent until marriage and to be faithful within marriage. We know that the only guaranteed way to prevent sexually transmitted infections and unplanned pregnancies is to honor God's design for sexuality.

Though the current health care reform plan threatens life and rights of conscience for medical professionals, we can be encouraged by this pro-abstinence vote. For more information on abstinence education, visit our Abstinence resource page. In the meantime, we'll continue to keep you up to date on developments in the health care reform debate.

For faith and family,

Tom Minnery, Senior Vice President, Government & Public Policy

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