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Stupak-Pitts Amendment Passes 240 to 194!

November 8, 2009

WASHINGTON, DC (MetroCatholic) –  Tonight the U.S. House of Representatives approved the Pitts-Stupak amendment to H.R. 3962, America’s Healthy Future Act by a vote of  240 to 194, with 64 Democratic members voting in favor of the amendment.  Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser offered the following comments:

“Tonight the House of Representatives made a principled and politically sound decision to continue our nation’s longstanding policy of protecting taxpayers’ conscience in the area of abortion funding.   We urge the Senate to follow suit.  We will remain vigilant, and shift our efforts to the Senate to ensure that these same pro-life protections are added to the Senate bill.

“On behalf of the 280,000 members and activists of the Susan B. Anthony List who contacted Congress on this issue, I applaud all those who voted to honor the American legacy of protecting citizens’ conscience from conscription into activity to which most are morally opposed. Congress has sided with the resounding majority of citizens opposed to government funding of abortion. Supporters of government-funded abortion will now have some explaining to do back home, before voters head to the ballot box in 2010.

“If there’s one thing many members of Congress learned from Tuesday’s elections, it’s the danger of being out of step with your constituents.  Votes do have consequences, and the recent tensions over health care reform should drive that message home.  We will use every tool in our arsenal to ensure the folks back home know the truth about their legislator’s record.”

For the last several months, the Susan B. Anthony List has mobilized tens of thousands of pro-life Americans nationwide to urge Congress to exclude abortion from healthcare reform.  Already this year Susan B. Anthony List activists nationwide delivered over 408,703 letters to Congress urging an explicit exclusion of abortion funding from health care reform.

The Susan B. Anthony List is a nationwide network of Americans, over 167,000 residing in all 50 states, dedicated to mobilizing, advancing, and representing pro-life women in politics. Its connected Candidate Fund increases the percentage of pro-life women in the political process.

Posted by George Vogt · Filed Under Pro-Life 

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One Response to “Stupak-Pitts Amendment Passes 240 to 194!”

  1. Ed Reinhart on November 8th, 2009 1:01 pm

    Don’t be celebrating yet. First, there was no conscience protection clause in the Health Bill which narrowly passed by 15 votes. Nor were there any guarantees that any of the other life issues would be protected. The death panels are alive and well, nothing was mentioned in the bill about stem cell research, planned parenthood issues of family planning and education are well defended, there is a promise of gross intrusion into child rearing. On top of all this this Bill represents the greatest violation of individual and coorporate constitutional rights that has yet occurred outside of the House passed Climate Change Bill. Finally, this Bill will cost at least a trillion dollars, there by reducing personal disposable income at a time when every parish in the country is begging the folks to contribute more to the bottom line of their parishs. And lastly, there is no guarantee that the Stupak-Pitts amendment will survive joint conference negotiations. Personally I think the Bishops and most pro-life entities got snookered. When you constantly dance with the devil you will eventually get burned. The problem with the Bishops is that most of them have traditionaly supported every government effort to solve social ills. Never mind that this support has helped expand the naturally socialist tendency of government. Now we are confronted with an administration which is doing all it can to reduce us to an absolutely socialist/fascist nation in which the government will deprive us of nearly all personal rights, thus making it more and more difficult to observe and preserve our Catholic life and morality. It would have been far better if the Bishops had been stressing the principals of subsidiarity over the last seventy or eighty years instead of coming down in favor of government’s natrually socialist tendencies.

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