As if forcing Americans to pay for abortions through the healthcare law wasn’t enough, now the Obama Administration is trying to repeal the longstanding policy that military health care facilities may not be used to perform elective abortions.
Senator Roland Burris (D-IL), who filled Obama’s senate seat after he was elected president, was the one to introduce an amendment to strip this language from current law.
As it stands now, the Senate will most likely take up this legislation after they come back from the July 4th recess next week. Senators will be home this weekend so look for opportunities to meet with them if you can.
Both the Most Reverend Timothy Broglio, Archbishop for the Military Services, and Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, Chairman of the Bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities, have sent letters to the U.S. Senate, urging that the defense authorization bill not be approved until the Burris Amendment is reversed and the current law upheld. For texts of these letters, see: nchla.org/docdisplay.asp?ID=339 and nchla.org/datasource/idocuments/CardinalDiNardoMilitaryLetter.pdf .
And contact your Senators and tell them that you do not support our military facilities taking life -they are there to rehabilitate and save lives, not to do abortions.
