A Conservative Teacher (Free subscription) | yesterday
In You Will Support Abortions Under New Healthcare Bill I wrote about two passages in the Democrat's healthcare bill that encouraged your taxpayer money to be spent on aborting babies. But after Demcrats fought hard to prevent a vote on this issue, morality prevailed, and a group of Democrats voted with Republicans to successfully ban federal funds for abortion under the...
Health - The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
The House of Representatives voted on Saturday to tighten a ban against using federal funds to finance abortions under the proposed Democratic healthcare reform legislation....
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives voted on Saturday to tighten a ban against using federal funds to finance abortions under the proposed Democratic healthcare reform legislation.
FRC Blog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The Health Care bill will fund abortion because of the Capps amendment. The supposed “Ellsworth” compromise would not prevent the public option from funding abortion, but would have the exact same effect of government funding of abortion. Because of confusing accounting gimmicks, this flow-chart may help you understand how the public option would fund elective [...]...
FIRST THINGS (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
That the House of Representatives managed not to fund abortions while passing the new health-care bill is the good news. That it managed to pass the health-care bill without funding abortion is the bad news, too. In an odd way, it's maybe even worse news than if the leading Democrats in the House had succeeded at including abortion funding, which is clearly what they wanted...
Reuters (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Saturday to tighten a ban against using federal funds to finance abortions under the proposed Democratic healthcare reform legislation.
Reflections on Faith and Culture (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Latest update from Americans United for Life: An editorial in the Washington Post today asserted, “The controversy over abortion funding is similarly phony. Federal law prohibits the use of federal money for abortions except in cases of rape, incest or where the life of the mother is endangered. The House bill would leave that restriction in place. It would exclude abortion...
Political Wrinkles (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
The House or Representatives JUST passed an amendment sponsored by Michigan Democrat Stupak that will block federal funding on abortions in the...
Right Mind (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
See: Call/Email Your Member of Congress and ask him/her to oppose the "Rule" if it does not allow a vote on the Stupak anti-abortion funding amendment From the FRC : On Saturday, Congress will vote on the massive health care legislation which currently will spend your money on all elective abortion! Speaker Nancy Pelosi's health care bill authorizes the government run "public...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Pro-choice groups are up in arms over passage of the "Stupak" amendment, by Michigan Democrat Bart Stupack, which would expand a ban on government funded abortions by banning abortion coverage in...
Hawaii Right to Life (Free subscription) | yesterday
... the NRLC-backed Stupak-Pitts Amendment, 240-194. The Stupak-Pitts Amendment removed two major pro-abortion components from H.R. 3962. Specifically: (1) the amendment would permanently prohibit the new federal government insurance program, the "public option," from paying for abortion, except to save the life of the mother, or in cases of rape or incest; and (2) the amendment...
Tony Phyrillas (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
The United States Conference of Catholic Biships has sent a letter to members of Congress urging them to remove taxpayer-funded abortions from the health care reform debate. Follow the link below to read the letter: Bishops Urge Passage of Stupak-Ellsworth Anti-Abortion Amendment for Health Reform Bill
America's Watchtower (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
We have been told over and over again that there is nothing in the healthcare reform bill that would use taxpayer money to fund abortions. The Hyde amendment has been sited as proof that there will be no federally funded abortion but the Hyde amendment is attached to the appropriations portion of the bill and not to the main [...]
TruthSeeker24's anti-N.W.O. corner (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
From http://lifenews.com/nat5623.html Pro-Abortion MoveOn to Challenge Pro-Life Democrats Voting No on Health Care by Steven Ertelt LifeNews.com Editor November 6, 2009 addthis_pub = 'sertelt'; Email RSS Print Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The pro-abortion grassroots activist group MoveOn says it has raised millions of dollars to take on any pro-life or moderate Democrat who would...
CWA-NJ Conservatives with Attitude! (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
As scary as it is, I have been watching C-Span for most of the day. One of the big issues in this debate is abortion. As I mentioned in my post below, the Stupak Amendment was being brought up to stop taxpayer funded abortions from being in the final bill. However, politically the right move for [...]
