National Right to Life says no true pro-life Democrat would be willing to support the Senate healthcare bill.
President Obama spent considerable time last week making private pitches to Capital Hill Democrats, asking them to trust him when it comes to healthcare reform. On Sunday, Associated Press reported the president will "persuade Congress to pass his healthcare overhaul even if it kills him and even if he has to ask deeply distrustful lawmakers to trust him on a promise the White House doesn't ahve the power to keep." Nevertheless, Congressman Bart Stupak (D-Michigan) and a dozen fellow Democrats who supported the House healthcare bill say they will vote against the Senate version unless it includes a ban on federal funding of abortion.Douglas Johnson, legislative director for the National Right to Life Committee, notes the Senate bill (H.R. 3590) has multiple pro-abortion provisions and says that when those provisions are added up, it is the most pro-abortion piece of legislation ever to come before the U.S. House since Roe v. Wade. "The Senate bill is a cluster bomb for pro-abortion provisions, and this is going to be a real career-defining vote for members of the House of Representatives," Johnson explains. "Any House member who votes for this bill really forfeits any future claim to pro-life credentials. And really any House member who votes for this bill can no longer say he has a record against federal funding of abortion." The pro-life legislative director adds that National Right to Life has identified seven "major, substantive abortion-related policy problems" in the bill, and discussed those issues in a press statement released on Friday.
President Obama spent considerable time last week making private pitches to Capital Hill Democrats, asking them to trust him when it comes to healthcare reform. On Sunday, Associated Press reported the president will "persuade Congress to pass his healthcare overhaul even if it kills him and even if he has to ask deeply distrustful lawmakers to trust him on a promise the White House doesn't ahve the power to keep." Nevertheless, Congressman Bart Stupak (D-Michigan) and a dozen fellow Democrats who supported the House healthcare bill say they will vote against the Senate version unless it includes a ban on federal funding of abortion.Douglas Johnson, legislative director for the National Right to Life Committee, notes the Senate bill (H.R. 3590) has multiple pro-abortion provisions and says that when those provisions are added up, it is the most pro-abortion piece of legislation ever to come before the U.S. House since Roe v. Wade. "The Senate bill is a cluster bomb for pro-abortion provisions, and this is going to be a real career-defining vote for members of the House of Representatives," Johnson explains. "Any House member who votes for this bill really forfeits any future claim to pro-life credentials. And really any House member who votes for this bill can no longer say he has a record against federal funding of abortion."
The pro-life legislative director adds that National Right to Life has identified seven "major, substantive abortion-related policy problems" in the bill, and discussed those issues in a press statement released on Friday.
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