Contact your Representative today: vote NO to stop government-funded abortions

Just moments ago, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi revealed the federal healthcare “reform” bill that pro-abortion legislators have been working on behind closed doors.

In just a few days, the Speaker wants Congress to vote on the bill.

So our time to act and speak out to our legislators is very, very short. We must do so today.

No one in this short time can analyze the many details of this bill, but one thing is sure:

This legislation would radically change U.S. policy by having the government subsidize abortion on demand.

So our message to Congress is quite simple:

Keep our government from paying for abortions in any way.

When you tell your legislators this simple message, you may get excuses in response. Don’t buy the excuses:

• The “Capps Amendment” is a phony scheme written by a pro-abortion legislator to set up accounting screens to mask federal subsidy of abortion. The bottom line after the smoke clears is that an abortionist would get a check from the U.S. Treasury to pay him for the abortion he performed.
• The “Hyde Amendment” is a good law barring certain government funding (HHS appropriations) of certain abortions, but it does not apply to funding from this new healthcare legislation. It also has to be approved again and again each year, and pro-abortion legislators are aiming to vote it down. That would open the floodgates for government funding of abortion on demand.

Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich. 1) is leading about 40 pro-life colleagues from his party, along with Republican Representatives, in demanding an amendment to bar government funding of abortions.

The Stupak-Pitts amendment would—unlike the phony “compromises” by abortion proponents—clearly and explicitly bar government funding of abortions. The Stupak-Pitts amendment would parallel the good Hyde amendment.

So far, the Speaker and other pro-abortion leaders have refused to give this group a chance to vote. This battle is now coming to a head.

The pro-abortion Speaker doesn’t want that to happen. In a few days, the Speaker will try to get Representatives to vote to disallow any amendments to the healthcare legislation. That’s called a “closed rule” and it prohibits any amendments.

So when you tell your legislators to keep the government from funding abortions, tell them to vote NO on the closed rule. Tell them the Stupak-Pitts amendment deserves a YES vote to keep the government from funding abortions.

What you can do:

Contact the office of your U.S. Representative today:

http://www.capwiz.com/nrlc/dbq/officials/

Tell your legislator to keep the government from funding abortions by:

1. Voting NO on the “closed rule” (the rule that abortion proponents want to prevent pro-life amendments).

2. Voting YES on the Stupak-Pitts amendment to ban government funding of abortions.

This is not just politics. Little lives hang in the balance.

Thank you for speaking out.