November 4, 2009 - Democrat leaders in the House are rushing through a vote on Rep. Nancy Pelosi's 1,990-page health care bill this Saturday. (Pelosi's bill nationalizes health care and creates 111 new federal bureaucracies!)

Pelosi dropped her bill (H.R. 3962) just last week and expects legislators to have read, absorbed and understood the 1,990 pages of legalese in it.

Pro-Life legislators have zeroed in on sections in the bill that will be used to mandate abortion coverage as part of a government-run health care program.

Pelosi's bill currently authorizes federal funding for abortion in the public option and subsidies for private insurance that includes abortion through affordability credits.

Democrat Rep. Brad Ellsworth (D-IN) is offering an amendment that will still permit abortion in the government-run program but would force providers to contract out administrative functions related to paying for elective abortions.

TVC Executive Andrea Lafferty delivered a box of petitions against socialized health care to Ellsworth's office on November 4 -- just days before the vote on Pelosi's plan to nationalize health care.

As pro-life New Jersey Rep. Chris Smith has stated: "Today we see yet another phony amendment designed to subsidize and expand the abortion industry cloaked in deceptive language. The new language makes clear that abortion will be included in the public option. Under the new arrangement, instead of an HHS employee issuing blood money checks for elective abortions, HHS will pay a contractor to issue checks for abortion on demand. It is a distinction without a difference. The public should not be fooled nor should any pro-life Democrat."

According to Smith, the Ellsworth amendment "... amounts to the federal government taking out a ‘contract' on the unborn. For the first time ever an elaborate government program will be created to pay contractors to pay abortionists for the dismemberment, chemical poisoning, and in utero starvation of innocent unborn children."

Smith and other pro-life Members of Congress are pushing for a vote on the bipartisan Stupak/Pitts amendment that will permanently prohibit funding for abortions and plans that include abortion coverage.

TVC supports the Stupak/Pitts amendment to H.R. 3962, but still opposes passage of PelosiCare or any other liberal plan to nationalize our health care system.

TAKE ACTION:

1. Urge your Representative to vote YES on the Stupak/Pitts amendment and NO on the passage of PelosiCare, ObamaCare Or HarryCare in the Senate. No legislation must be passed that creates a socialized health care system in America.
2. Call the Capitol Hill Switchboard: 202-224-3121 and ask for your Representative's office.
3. Please forward this to ten friends!
4. SUPPORT TVC'S IMPORTANT WORK!

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