By Dave Andrusko

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As the eleventh hour on health care "reform" approaches, the best advice I can give anyone is to go to http://nrlactioncenter.com. There you get a full run down and instructions how to convey your opinions quickly and thoughtfully.

Let me quote one of the paragraphs in the alert:

Now, the final showdown is near. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has vowed, "We will pass a bill." She has expressed great annoyance with pro-life resistance to the bill, declaring, "I will not have it turned into a debate on (abortion)." On March 11, House Democratic leaders rejected out of hand any proposal to allow the House to add pro-life language to the Senate bill, saying that they "will try to pass the sweeping legislation without the support of ardent anti-abortion Democrats." The White House and the House Democratic leadership has also stepped up pressure on pro-life House Democrats to support the Senate bill.

I would just add two quick thoughts. Without rehearsing all that has taken place in the last six months (and it's a LONG list), suffice it to say that the pro-abortion leadership of the House and Senate has offered both carrot and the stick.

Sometimes the "carrot" takes the form of, to put it discretely, inducements to accept the abortion-ridden bill the Senate passed last December. Other times it takes the form of insisting that pro-lifers have deluded themselves into thinking the House bill, which includes the Stupak-Pitts amendment, means the bill was more pro-life. David Gibson, for example, writing in Politics Daily, is so bold as to contend (as the headline puts it) that "The Senate Bill Funds Abortions? Nope, and It's More Pro-Life Than the House Version."

I would just say that if you believe that, you will believe anything. But if you are Pelosi and Reid and President Obama trying to persuade balky House Democrats to vote for the Senate bill, it is one more add-on to a list of pseudo-justifications.

The "stick"? We can only imagine how much pressure is being placed on Democrats, especially pro-life Democrats. That is why it is imperative that you go to http://nrlactioncenter.com and from there send a message to your member of the House and urge him or her to vote against the health care bill.

Those who have had the courage to oppose this abomination of a health care "reform" bill need to know you are watching.

Good luck, and don't wait to take action. There most likely will be a vote next week.

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