In a word: NO !!!
With many thanks to James Bell of American Principles Project (APP) for stating this so succinctly (and to Thomas Peters of APP for sharing the info) … here are some features of the Senate Healthcare Bill that make it pro-abortion:
- The Senate Health Care Reform Bill spends taxpayer dollars on health care plans that fund abortions.
- The bill spends $12 billion on Community Health Centers that Planned Parenthood will be eligible to receive.
- This bill also gives the Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius the right to declare abortion as a pre-existing condition to be covered under every health care plan in the federal exchange under the Mikulski Amendment.
- It eliminates conscience protections for insurance providers, trip-wires the direct funding of abortions to potential expiration.
- Under this bill, everyone — including men and old women — will be forced to pay at least $1 (to be raised under jurisdiction of Congress) to a fund for “reproductive rights” that will cover 100% of the cost for anyone who gets elective abortions.
James puts it in a nutshell: “To say that the Senate Health Care Reform Bill is the greatest expansion of abortion since Roe v. Wade is an understatement.”
FOLKS, please phone or email your Congressman!!! Urge them to stand up for the sanctity of life, and to STOP Federal funding of abortion (click here for phone #’s of US Representatives for the state of CO).
