NRL News
Page 28
October 2009
Volume 36
Issue 10

Urgent—Condition Red
Tell Congress NO to Pro-Abortion Health Care Bills!

Both the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives may take up massive “health care reform” bills in late October or in November.

While several versions of the bills currently exist, they all contain provisions under which the federal government would subsidize coverage of abortion, which would be a sharp break from decades of federal policy. In three different House committees, and two different Senate committees, senior Democratic lawmakers—allied with the Obama White House—defeated NRLC-backed amendments that would have removed the pro-abortion components from the bills.

Time is short. Please take the actions recommended below, and urge your fellow pro-life citizens to do likewise:

* Make phone calls to the offices of your two U.S. senators. (Any state’s senators can be reached through the Capitol Switchboard, 202-224-3121.) Tell your senators’ staff persons that you wish to be recorded as opposed to the health care bill that Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid will soon bring to the Senate floor (the bill does not yet have a number), which will subsidize health plans that pay for elective abortions. Leave your name and address, and ask for a written explanation of your senator’s position.

* Make a phone call to the office of your U.S. House member. (You can reach any U.S. House member’s office through 202-225-3121—if you don’t know who represents you in the House, just give the switchboard operator your zip code.) Tell your representative’s staff person that you are opposed to H.R. 3200, the health care bill that Speaker Nancy Pelosi will soon bring to the House floor, under which the federal government would operate a nationwide insurance program (the “public plan”) that would pay for elective abortions.

* If possible, make similar calls to the in-district offices of your senators and representative in the House, with the same messages. The phone numbers area available from the NRLC Legislative Action Center at http://www.capwiz.com/nrlc/dbq/officials/

For always-current information on the status of the health care legislation, check in frequently at www.nrlactioncenter.com