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Reid Releases Pro-Abortion Health Care Bill – AULAction Campaign: Vote NO on Cloture

November 20, 2009

WASHINGTON, DC (MetroCatholic) –  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid last night unveiled a health care bill which includes pro-abortion language. The bill’s language mirrors the Capps Amendment from the House debate — it allows the public option to include abortion coverage and provides federal subsidies for private plans which cover abortion.

Americans United for Life Action President and CEO Dr. Charmaine Yoest said, “Senator Reid’s bill provides for an unprecedented expansion of federally-funded abortion. The majority of Americans who oppose federal funding of abortion will not stand for policies that force them into paying for abortions under the guise of health care reform.”

The principle behind both the Hyde Amendment and the Stupak-Pitts Amendment is that taxpayer dollars do not pay for abortions or subsidize insurance plans that cover abortions. In the new Senate bill, the abortion language revealed on pages 116 through 124 in Senator Reid’s new health care bill will:

  --  Require a plan that covers abortion in every insurance market.
  --  Allow the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services to require
      coverage of any and all abortions throughout the public option
      program.

  --  Create new tax-funded subsidies to purchase private health plans that
      will cover abortion.

Dr. Yoest continued, “The Reid language in the new Senate health care bill is not the Stupak-Pitts language barring federal funds from going to abortion in health care. It is the opposite of the pro-life Stupak-Pitts language. The U.S. Senate must stop this bill from moving forward by voting no on cloture on this pro-abortion health care bill.”

Americans United for Life Action is the legislative arm of Americans United for Life, the first national pro-life organization in America. In 1980, AUL successfully defended the Hyde Amendment before the U.S. Supreme Court in Harris v. McRae. Visit AUL Action’s RealHealthCareRespectsLife.com, for background from our legal team about the current health care reform bills threat to the right to life and rights of conscience.

Posted by George Vogt · Filed Under Pro-Life 

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