By Dave Andrusko

Part two discusses the growing menace of euthanasia in the United Kingdom. Part Three offers you a chance to order the special January NRL News commemorative issue, "Pro-abortion President Barack Obama and Pro-Lifers: One Year Later."

Let me begin Monday's edition of TN&V with a few brief but essential comments on another topic.

At this point in time, nothing is more important than fending off the pro-abortion attempt to plunge anti-life poison directly into the heart of the way medicine is delivered in this country, a.k.a., the battle over health care "reform."

The headline in yesterday's Washington Post--"Abortion rights activists get ready for another year of challenges"--is amusing for its one-sidedness, but at least it acknowledges that there is something/somebody (you and me) who are presenting a challenge to pro-abortion forces.

But this story, like similar ones in places like the New York Times, also suggest that there is a "division" among pro-lifers over the murder of abortionist George Tiller. If a handful (literally) of dissenters means that a Movement is "divided," then you could write that story seven days a week until the end of time about any group.

The mainstream right to life movement, led by National Right to Life, has unequivocally denounced violence. There are no "ifs" "ands" or "buts" to our denunciation of violence against abortionists, abortion clinic personnel, or abortion clinics. Violence is wrong on its face, antithetical to the ethos of our Movement, and hugely damaging to the cause that labors to save millions of unborn children.

The 99.9% of pro-lifers who agree with NRLC--many of whom have dedicated major parts of their lives to this mission--refuse to be distracted from their campaign to thwart the most menacing challenge we've faced in decades by bogus assertions that any genuine pro-lifer would be soft on, let alone supportive of, violence.

Now, back to health care restructuring…

If you go to http://nrlactioncenter.com, you'll have access to the latest and most definitive update. (I've also attached the first half below.)

The clear and present danger is found in the first sentence: "The Obama White House and top Democratic congressional leaders are meeting behind closed doors to hammer out a final health care bill, which they hope to ram through both houses of Congress within a matter of weeks."

Pro-Life Congressman Bart Stupak

The pro-abortion Congressional leaders and the pro-abortion President can break every promise they made about transparency/openness/candor, as anyone who has lived in this town knew they would. The bottom line still is that a majority of the House members and 60 senators have to vote for whatever bill is sewn together out of the measures passed in the House and Senate.

Also at http://nrlactioncenter.com, you'll find a link to a letter sent to some members of the U.S. House. No matter how carefully most people follow the debate, it's very difficult to know specifically and in depth what are the major problems with the Senate-passed bill. The letter lays out what are "the minimal criteria that we believe should apply to the provisions that implicate abortion."

Please do to http://nrlactioncenter.com to get up to date information and learn how to quickly contact your two U.S. senators and your member of the House of Representatives.

Tell lawmakers: Reject Obama's pro-abortion health care bill! White House and top congressional Democrats are writing final bill behind closed doors

WASHINGTON (Updated January 10, 2010, 9 PM EST) –The Obama White House and top Democratic congressional leaders are meeting behind closed doors to hammer out a final health care bill, which they hope to ram through both houses of Congress within a matter of weeks.

There are major differences between the bill passed by the House in November (H.R. 3962) and the bill passed by the Senate in December (H.R. 3590), including profound differences on abortion policy.

"NRLC believes that enactment of the abortion provisions in the Senate-passed health bill would result in substantial expansions of abortion, driven by federal administrative decrees and federal subsidies," said NRLC Legislative Director Douglas Johnson. "In contrast, the abortion-related provisions of the House bill, as it was amended by the NRLC-backed Stupak-Pitts Amendment, would preserve long-established federal policies -- preventing federal subsidies for abortion, preventing pro-abortion federal mandates, and protecting the conscience rights of pro-life health care providers."

To view or download a letter sent by NRLC to some members of the U.S. House, explaining six major abortion-related problems with the Senate-passed bill, click http://www.nrlc.org/AHC/HouseLetteronAbortionProvisions.html

The White House and senior congressional Democrats intend to include pro-abortion provisions in the final bill, similar to the provisions included in the Senate bill. However, any bill they write must still receive majority approval in the House, and 60 votes in the Senate, before it can be sent to President Obama for his signature. NRLC is continuing to urge lawmakers to oppose any final bill if it contains provisions to subsidize abortion or to establish other new pro-abortion federal policies, or provisions that would result in government-driven rationing of lifesaving medical treatments.

Congressman Bart Stupak (D-Mi.), who has led a group of pro-life House Democrats in a fight to prevent health care legislation from funding or expanding abortion, has declared the abortion-related provisions in the Senate bill to be "unacceptable."

(The legislative situation can change rapidly, so check back to this page frequently to get the latest updates.)

Time is short! Please telephone the offices of your U.S. senators and your U.S. House member. The Washington offices of your representatives can be reached through the Capitol Switchboard, 202-224-3121. If you scroll to the bottom of this alert, you will find additional suggestions for ways to communicate with your senators on this issue.

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