PRO-LIFE ADVOCATES LAMBAST ABORTION LANGUAGE

NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE COMMITTEE: “The manager’s amendment is light years removed from the Stupak-Pitts Amendment that was approved by the House of Representatives on November 8 by a bipartisan vote of 240-194. The new abortion language solves none of the fundamental abortion-related problems with the Senate bill, and it actually creates some new abortion-related problems.” (National Right To Life Committee, Press Release, 12/19/09)
FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL:“This so-called 'compromise' includes the accounting gimmicks that we have seen previously proposed. The new language also does nothing to protect individual consciences. Every purchaser of insurance will be forced to pay for other people's abortions in a more direct manner than ever before.” (Family Research Council, Press Release, 12/19/09)
AMERICANS UNITED FOR LIFE: “Majority Leader Reid’s amendment to the Senate health care bill absolutely fails to meet abortion and life protections that exist in current federal law and policy. It does not prevent federal funding of plans that include abortion coverage, it does not adequately protect health care providers who choose to exercise their rights of conscience, and it does not prevent government involvement in assisted suicide. A vast majority of the American people are opposed to these policies and will make themselves heard loudly over the coming days.” (Americans United For Life, Press Release, 12/19/09)
AMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE: “This legislation violates the long-standing policy of prohibiting federal dollars from funding abortion. Under this bill, millions of federal dollars from taxpayers and participants in the federally subsidized health plans will flow to abortionists for elective abortions. The accounting schemes in the bill do nothing to change this fact.” (American Center For Law And Justice, Press Release, 12/19/09)
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