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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> nrlc@nrlc.org [mailto:nrlc@nrlc.org]
<BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, February 22, 2010 1:46 PM<BR><B>To:</B> Art
Kelly<BR><B>Subject:</B> Obama Proposals Would Expand Pro-Abortion Provisions in
Senate Health Bill<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2><B>For immediate
release:</B><BR>Monday, February 22, 2010</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2><B>For further information:
</B><BR>Derrick Jones, 202-626-8825, <A
href="mailto:mediarelations@nrlc.org">mediarelations@nrlc.org</A>
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align=center><B><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=4>SENATE HEALTH BILL
WOULD BECOME EVEN MORE EXPANSIVELY<O:P></O:P></FONT></B></P>
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align=center><B><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=4>PRO-ABORTION IF
MODIFIED BY NEW OBAMA PROPOSALS<O:P></O:P></FONT></B></P>
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style="COLOR: black"><FONT face="Trebuchet MS"
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT
face="Trebuchet MS" size=2><STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: black">WASHINGTON -- The
following statement may be attributed to Douglas Johnson,
legislative director for the National Right to Life Committee
(NRLC), the federation of right-to-life affiliates in all 50
states.</SPAN></STRONG></FONT><B><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></B></P>
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style="COLOR: black"><FONT face="Trebuchet MS"
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in"><FONT
face="Trebuchet MS" size=2><STRONG><SPAN style="COLOR: black">Any
member of Congress who votes for the final legislation proposed by
President Obama will be voting for direct federal funding of
elective abortion through Community Health Centers, and also an
array of other pro-abortion federal subsidies and
mandates.</SPAN></STRONG></FONT><B><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></B></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in"><FONT
face="Trebuchet MS" size=2><STRONG><SPAN style="COLOR: black">The
health bill passed by the Senate in December (H.R. 3590) had become,
by the conclusion of the Senate amendment process, the most
expansively pro-abortion bill ever brought to the floor of either
house of Congress since <I>Roe v. Wade</I>. The Senate bill,
as passed, contained seven distinct problems pertaining to abortion
policies. (The bill passed earlier by the House, H.R. 3962,
contained none of these pro-abortion components, thanks to adoption
of the Stupak-Pitts Amendment on the House floor on November 7,
2009, by a vote of 240-194.) President Obama today proposed "a
targeted set of changes to" the Senate-passed bill. None of
President Obama's proposed changes diminish any of the sweeping
pro-abortion problems in the Senate bill, and he actually proposes
to increase the funds that would be available to directly subsidize
abortion procedures (through Community Health Centers) and to
subsidize private health insurance that covers abortion (through the
premium-subsidy tax credits program).
</SPAN></STRONG></FONT><B><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></B></P>
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style="COLOR: black"><FONT face="Trebuchet MS"
size=2><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in"><FONT
face="Trebuchet MS" size=2><STRONG><SPAN style="COLOR: black">If all
of the President's changes were made, the resulting legislation
would allow direct federal funding of abortion on demand through
Community Health Centers, would institute federal subsidies for
private health plans that cover abortion on demand (including some
federally administered plans), and would authorize federal mandates
that would require even non-subsidized private plans to cover
elective abortion. </SPAN></STRONG></FONT><B><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in"><B><SPAN
style="COLOR: black"><FONT face="Trebuchet MS"
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in"><FONT
face="Trebuchet MS"><STRONG><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><FONT
size=2>Here is one problem, offered for illustration: The
Senate bill, due to a last-minute amendment, provides $7 billion for
the nation's 1,250 Community Health Centers, without any restriction
whatever on the use of these federal funds to pay directly for
abortion on demand. (These funds are entirely untouched by the
"Hyde Amendment" that currently covers Medicaid.) Obama today
proposed to increase that figure to $11 billion, but without adding
a prohibition on the use of the funds for abortion. (The
House-passed bill would provide $12 billion, but in the House bill
the funds would be covered by the Stupak-Pitts Amendment.) Two
pro-abortion groups, the Reproductive Health Access Project and the
Abortion Access Project, are already actively campaigning for
Community Health Centers to perform elective abortions. In
short, the Senate bill would allow direct federal funding of
abortion on demand through Community Health Centers. A
memorandum documenting this issue in further detail is posted
here: </FONT><A
title=http://www.mmsend3.com/ls.cfm?r=166824244&sid=8726688&m=937859&u=NRLC&s=http://www.nrlc.org/AHC/NRLCmemoCommHealth.pdf
href="http://www.nrlc.org/AHC/NRLCmemoCommHealth.pdf"><FONT
color=#0000ff
size=2>http://www.nrlc.org/AHC/NRLCmemoCommHealth.pdf</FONT></A></SPAN></STRONG></FONT><B><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></B></P>
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style="COLOR: black"><FONT face="Trebuchet MS"
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in"><FONT
face="Trebuchet MS"><STRONG><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><FONT
size=2>The abortion-related differences between the House-passed and
Senate-passed bills are far, far greater than one would gather from
reading superficial summaries such as those published repeatedly in
the mainstream news media. These thumbnail sketches have
tended to focus exclusively and superficially on certain provisions
associated with Senator Ben Nelson. NRLC believes that the
Nelson provisions are unacceptable, but the pro-abortion problems in
the Senate bill go far beyond the flawed Nelson
provisions. A letter from NRLC to U.S. House members,
explaining the multiple pro-abortion components of the Senate-passed
bill, is posted here: </FONT><A
title=http://www.mmsend3.com/ls.cfm?r=166824244&sid=8726689&m=937859&u=NRLC&s=http://www.nrlc.org/AHC/HouseLetteronAbortionProvisions.html
href="http://www.nrlc.org/AHC/HouseLetteronAbortionProvisions.html"><FONT
size=2>http://www.nrlc.org/AHC/HouseLetteronAbortionProvisions.html</FONT></A></SPAN></STRONG></FONT><B><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></B></P>
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style="COLOR: black"><FONT face="Trebuchet MS"
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in"><FONT
face="Trebuchet MS"><STRONG><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><FONT
size=2>The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB)
produced a 13-page memorandum that throws the many unacceptable
provisions of the Senate bill into stark relief, which is posted
here: </FONT><A
title=http://www.mmsend3.com/ls.cfm?r=166824244&sid=8726690&m=937859&u=NRLC&s=http://www.usccb.org/healthcare/life_conscience.pdf
href="http://www.usccb.org/healthcare/life_conscience.pdf"><FONT
color=#0000ff
size=2>http://www.usccb.org/healthcare/life_conscience.pdf</FONT></A></SPAN></STRONG></FONT><B><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></B></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in"><FONT
face="Trebuchet MS" size=2><STRONG><SPAN style="COLOR: black">A
substantial number of pro-life Democrats in the House, including
some lawmakers whose names have not been mentioned on the various
published lists, have told their constituents that they are not
going to vote for the Senate-passed bill because of the abortion
problems. For pro-life Democrats, President Obama's proposal
only makes matters worse. The only thing that would fix the Senate
bill on abortion is permanent, bill-wide language that is
functionally identical to the Stupak-Pitts Amendment adopted in the
House on November 7, 2009.</SPAN></STRONG></FONT><B><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></B></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in"><B><SPAN
style="COLOR: black"><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2>The Obama
proposal also would force rationing of lifesaving medical treatment,
a matter that will be the subject of separate comment by the
National Right to Life Committee.<O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><EM><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-STYLE: normal"><FONT face="Trebuchet MS"
size=2>NRLC Legislative Director Douglas Johnson and Senior
Legislative Counsel Susan Muskett are available to provide comment
and analysis on the Obama proposals. Please contact the NRLC
Communications Department at (202) 626-8825 to arrange an
interview.</FONT></SPAN></EM><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV></TD>
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