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Stupak Digs In As Nelson Sells Out on Abortion Funding in Health Care Bill

December 20, 2009

Senator Ben Nelson has sold out the unborn and has announced that he is ready to support Senator Harry Reid’s abortion funding health care bill.  If passed, Senator Reid’s health care bill will lead to the largest expansion of abortion since the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision allowing abortion on demand.  (One has to wonder what that decision would have been if the Court had been shown sonograms.) Nelson’s fascade came to an end when Reid offered money to Nelson for his home state of Nebraska. In return for this scam, Nelson has watered down his bill which will allow federal funding of abortion, but, oh, states can opt out of the government exchange if  they want.  This move undercuts the pro-life, pro-Hyde Stupak-Pitts Amendment.  But as Senator Nelson caves, Congressman Stupak is digging in, calling the Nelson abortion funding compromise, “unacceptable.”

Senator Ben Nelson

Senator Ben Nelson

 

Here is how the following days will play out.

The manger’s amendment released by Senator Reid now appears to have the 60 votes necessary to end debate and pass the health care reform bill in the Senate. The first in a series of cloture votes (vote to end debate on an amendment or bill) is expected around 1 am Monday morning.  If all goes as currently projected, the Senate would pass the health care bill sometime next week.  If the Senate passes its bill, there will then likely be a House-Senate Conference to negotiate the differences between the House and Senate language.  The House and Senate would then have to approve the modifications made in the conference.  In a statement released today Pro-life Caucus Co-chair Bart Stupak (D-MI) said “While I and many other pro-life Democratic House members wish to see health care coverage for all Americans, the proposed Senate language is unacceptable.”

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops responded immediately to the Nelson abortion funding Amendment. Statement here.

For more information please visit:

www.stoptheabortionmandate.com, National Right to Life Committee, and Americans United for Life

How ironic that as we ready for the coming of our Lord in this Advent season, that during Christmas week, the week of the birth of our savior, the United States Senate is going to pass a health care bill that provides federal funding for the taking of  innocent human life.  

St. Michael Society is encouraging all of our friends, followers and supporters to please pray to our Holy Mother to continue to give Congressman Bart Stupak, and other supporting Democrats, the will and the courage to stand their ground and defend innocent human life against a wave of pressure.  We also pray to Our Holy Mother for the protection of the unborn and for a culture of life in the face of an America that continues to head further and further down the road toward a culture of death. 

Finally, we encourage all to call their Senators and Representatives and tell them, no to a health care bill that leads to a massive funding of abortion, essentially an abortion industry pay out, and no to government run health care that leads to rationed care and euthanasia.

Senate: 202.224.3121

House: 202.225.3121

 

 

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Senate Pro-Life Amendment Up for a Vote This Weekend

December 4, 2009

UPDATE: The Senate did not vote on the Hatch-Nelson amendment  over the weekend (instead they listened to a closed-door speech on healthcare by President Obama….) but they are expected to vote on the amendment possibly sometime today, Monday, Dec. 7th. Please continue to contact your Senators and tell them abortion is not healthcare and to support the Hatch-Nelson amendment.

Senate Majority Leader Reid is expected to bring up for a vote  the Hatch (R-UT) -Nelson (D-NE) pro-life amendment, which is expected to closely mirror the Stupak amendment, this weekend as the Senate is in session. Yes, they are working on the weekend.

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Grassroots needs to move NOW on calling Senators to ask them to support the Hatch-Nelson pro-life amendment. The Catholic Bishops are mobilizinig this weekend also. Go HERE for contact info.

It’s possible that amendment could pass with enough pressure from grassroots, especially on these Democrat Senators:

 

 

Bayh (IN), Byrd (WV), Casey (PA), Johnson (SD), Landrieu (LA), Nelson (NE), Pryor (AR), Reid (NV), Conrad and Dorgan (both from ND)

and Lincoln (D-AR).  

 

 

Go HERE for contact info.

Most news reports assume the amendment will fail, but Senator Nelson has indicated that if the pro-life amendment is not included, he will support a filibuster and Harry Reid does not want that.

From the news:

If Nelson loses — as he well may — the dominoes will start falling for Reid.Without Nelson, the Democratic leader will be forced to seek support from either Collins or Snowe to keep the bill moving. – AP: Senate moderates hold key to health care’s fate (excerpt, 12/4/09)

As of late Thursday, the abortion issue remained the biggest point of contention. Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.), who is among a handful of potential defections who could foil Reid in his quest for 60 votes, is expected to offer an amendment as soon as Friday that would ban abortion coverage in the Senate bill’s scaled-back public plan. Nelson’s measure would also prohibit people who receive tax credits for private health-care coverage from buying policies that include abortion services. Speaking to reporters Thursday morning, Nelson declared flatly that if his amendment fails,” I won’t vote to move [the bill] off the floor.” -Washington Post: Reid’s recipe for getting health-care deal done (excerpt, 12/4/09)

The much-courted centrist from Nebraska intends to offer an amendment to the bill (HR 3590) that would mimic abortion curbs included in health care legislation the House passed last month (HR 3962). Those restrictions — named for their author, Bart Stupak, D-Mich. — are unacceptable to abortion rights supporters, and Nelson’s amendment is unlikely to be adopted in a Senate dominated by lawmakers who favor abortion rights. In that case, Nelson said, he would join a Republican filibuster against the bill. “I said I would not vote to take [the bill] off the floor,” Nelson said Thursday. “That’s not negotiable.” – CQ: Nelson Insists on Abortion Limits (complete article, 12/3/09)

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The Senate Healthcare Bill Funds Abortion; Calls it a “compromise”

November 20, 2009

voided checkAs expected Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid came up with some phony abortion “compromise” language in the healthcare bill he unveiled Wednesday and stripped out the Stupak-Pitts languge which would have prevented the government from funding abortion.

Here’s what you need to know: It’s NOT Stupak-Pitts language. In fact, it’s the opposite.

While Stupak/Pitts would have ensured that elective abortion was kept out of the public plan, the Reid  language explicitly authorizes the Secretary of Health & Human Services (pro-abortion ex-Kansas governor Kathleen Sebelius) to include abortion in the public option.  And while Stupak/Pitts would prohibit government subsidies from contributing to insurance policies that include elective abortion, the Senate language permits government subsidies for plans that pay for abortion. 

Reid tried to satisfy the abortion industry by mirroring the Capps amendment which allows federal funding of abortion. In fact, Rep. Lois Capps (D-Ca.), who has a 100% pro-abortion voting record, said in a press release following release of the Reid language:  “It appears that their approach closely mirrors my language which was originally included in the House bill.” Senator Boxer, also an ardent pro-choicer, has given her endorsement to the language saying, “Senator Reid did an excellent job of crafting language…” 

The fact that the Senate bill funds abortion isn’t even lost on the liberal media.

An MSNBC.com story about the Senate health care reform bill states:

On a controversial issue that threatened to derail the House legislation, Reid’s Senate measure would allow the new government insurance plan to cover abortions and would let companies that receive federal funds offer insurance plans that include abortion coverage.

A provision in the House bill — passed at the insistence of anti-abortion Democrats over strenuous objections from liberals — banned both those things. Reid failed in his attempt to include stricter abortion language.

Didn’t Reid WRITE the language? How did he “fail in his attempt to include stricter abortion language?”

And like the House bill, the Senate version would levy a new “abortion premium” fee on Americans in the government-run plan. 

Senator Jim DeMint dredges up a John Kerry flip-flopper line that works great for the very important “cloture” vote this weekend in the Senate:

Don’t let [the Senators] vote for a government takeover of health care before they vote against it.  no button

Why? A vote for cloture is a vote for the government-run plan because that would bring the bill to the floor for the debate. For the bill to pass, Reid only needs a majority, which he has. For cloture, he needs 60, which he may not have. So the Senators could very well vote for cloture and then vote against the bill and tell constituents they tried to prevent healthcare from being passed.

The vote on cloture tomorrow night is a vote for government-funded abortion.

Main points:

  • The 2,074-page Senate healthcare reform bill has rejected the bipartisan Stupak-Pitts Amendment and substituted phony language that would result in government-funded abortion.
  • A vote to allow the Senate healthcare bill to be debated on the floor through “cloture” is a vote for government-funded abortion.
  •  The bi-partisan Stupak-Pitts amendment does not change the status quo on abortion funding through the government; it IS the status quo. It mirrors the Hyde amendment which prevents the government from funding elective abortion.

 Contact your Senators NOW – the vote on cloture is very important. Don’t let Reid get the healthcare bill to the floor.

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