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Senate Abortion Provisions "Completely Unacceptable," Pro-life Leaders Say |
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D.C., Nov 19, 2009 (CNA).- Pro-life leaders have
criticized the regulation of abortion funding in the
Senate’s proposed version of health care reform
legislation as “completely unacceptable.” A Senate
version of the Stupak-Pitts Amendment is necessary to
prevent federal funding for abortion, they said.Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Wednesday unveiled a health care plan that claims to extend health coverage to 94 percent of Americans and about 31 million uninsured people at a cost of $848 billion over ten years, Bloomberg reports. “This legislation is a tremendous step forward,” Reid told reporters at the Capitol last night. “Tonight begins the last leg of this journey.” According to Bloomberg, the bill has some safeguards to keep federal dollars from funding abortion but not the restrictions adopted in the House bill’s Stupak Amendment. Pro-abortion advocates have threatened to vote against a final bill if it contains the House language and have worked to keep it out of the Senate version. On Thursday the press office of House Minority Leader Rep. John Boehner charged that Sen. Reid’s bill charges a “monthly abortion premium” to all enrollees in the government-run health plan. Under the Senate legislation, Boehner’s office said, “the Health Benefits Commissioner is to assess the monthly premiums that will be used to pay for elective abortions under the government-run health plan and for those who are given an affordability credit to purchase insurance coverage that includes abortion through the Exchange. The Commissioner must charge at a minimum $1 per enrollee per month.” Criticizing the Senate bill, National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) Legislative Director Douglas Johnson charged that Sen. Reid has rejected the “bipartisan” Stupak-Pitts Amendment and substituted “completely unacceptable language that would result in coverage of abortion on demand in two big new federal government programs.” Johnson said in a Wednesday statement that Sen. Reid tries to conceal this “unpopular” fact with “layers of contrived definitions and hollow bookkeeping requirements.” ::MORE |
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Family Research Council Urges Pro-life Senators to "Denounce" Abortion Funding |
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D.C., Nov 19, 2009 (CNA).- In reaction to Senate
Majority leader Harry Reid's new health care bill, the
Family Research Council urged pro-life senators to
“denounce abortion funding provisions and make every
effort to include the Stupak-Pitts amendment.” In a
statement Thursday, FRC President Tony Perkins said that
“Sen. Reid's new health bill does not include the
Stupak-Pitts amendment that was designed to prevent
federal funding for abortion on demand.”Perkins continued to say that the new senate bill “provides tax credits for private plans that cover abortion-on-demand and strips important conscience protections for providers who refuse to perform elective abortions.” The FRC President explained that “the Stupak-Pitts amendment adopted with 240 votes in the House would prevent federally funding for abortion,” and further stated that “clearly the straightforward language of (this) amendment is not what Sen. Reid and his pro-abortion colleagues want. Rather, they want government funding of abortion on demand.” Perkins concluded saying, “Pro-life senators...must denounce the Reid abortion funding provisions and make every effort to include the Stupak-Pitts amendment in the Senate bill in order to prevent the establishment of a government funded abortion program for the first time in over three decades.” ::MORE |
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