LAST CHANCE: Senate May Vote This Week to Fund Abortion in Health Care
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LAST CHANCE: Senate May Vote This Week to Fund Abortion in Health Care
November 16, 2009
Despite the pro-life victory when Congress passed the historic anti-abortion funding amendment sponsored by Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) and Rep. Joe Pitts (R-Penn.), the Senate could begin debate on the health care bill this week without any guarantee the government will pay for abortions!
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) may begin the process next week and he does not plan on keeping the "Stupak-Pitts" pro-life amendment in the Senate version of the bill. Senator Reid is expected to take up the House bill, and then replace it with a "Senate substitute" which will fund elective abortions. To do so, Senator Reid must start with the House bill for technical reasons since he has failed to craft a Senate bill yet.
Senator Reid will have to file a "motion to proceed" to the House bill, and this "motion" needs 60 votes before he can replace the bill with the Senate "substitute" that will use taxpayer funds for abortions — this vote must be stopped and may happen as early as Thursday! E-mail your Senators and urge them "to vote No on any procedural vote to move to the health bill unless Senator Reid’s version of the bill contains the Stupak-Pitts amendment to ban government funding of abortion."
Sincerely, 
Tony Perkins
President
