The nation’s leading pro-abortion organizations, Planned Parenthood and Pro-Choice NARAL, are calling on their members to contact their U.S. Senators to urge them to include “reproductive health care” in health care reform legislation. Notice how crafty they think they are by not using the “a” word — abortion. As if the Senators and the rest of the world can be deceived.
“We’ve feared all along that women and their reproductive health care could be the first to go when push comes to shove in health care reform,” sobs Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood. Pouring it on, NARAL’s Nancy Keenan adds “Unless we act now, the Senate could ban reproductive-health services from being covered in the new health-care system. Millions of women could lose coverage for abortion.”
They are reacting to our attempts to specifically exclude abortion coverage in any health care reform mandates. It is our job to respond in kind and exceed their efforts to force us to pay for everyone’s abortions.
Everyone reading this blog needs to contact Senators Kohl and Feingold at 202-224-3121 and urge that an abortion exclusion provision be added to any health care measure that comes before the Senate.
It is the best news because it is the reason why Wisconsin Right to Life exists. Abortions are down again in 2008, the fifth straight year of decline! Although the percent drop was less than 1% in 2008, any drop is significant following the 14% decrease in 2007. That huge drop was fueled (or so we thought) by the closing of two Planned Parenthood clinics in Appleton and Milwaukee for seven months in 2007. Both clinics reopened at the end of 2007 and operated throughout 2008.
The 2008 report issued by the Department of Health Services documents 8,267 abortions in 2007 followed by 8,229 abortions in 2008. The abortion ratio, the number of abortions per 100 live births, remained at 11. The abortion ratio is a key indicator because it reveals how many pregnant women actually have their babies or abort. Wisconsin’s abortion ratio of 11 is well under the national abortion ratio which is 24 abortions per 100 live births.
We believe the millenials, young people ages 17-29, are fueling the decline. These young people are far more pro-life than their predecessors and are now at the age when most abortions are performed (ages 18-34). They are establishing their values by having their babies. We can expect to see further abortion declines in the years to come.
We also believe that the television ad aired for the past two years by the Veritas Society, the media arm of Wisconsin Right to Life, has also contributed to the decline. The ad features interuterine photography of the baby in the womb. Millions across Wisconsin have viewed this ad specifically targeted to women 18-34. Education works. It changes hearts and minds. It reduces abortions. Life is good for the babies saved and their mothers and fathers.
This blog will continue to focus on health care reform in Washington as it is the key legislation for the right-to-life movement at this time.
The 850 page House version of reform would result in mandated abortion coverage nationwide, paid for by taxpayers. Poor Americans would receive a taxpayer subsidy which would pay for their abortions.
A key provision of the house bill would require that all Americans have a government-defined minimum health benefits package. A “Benefits Advisory Committee” and Kathleen Sebelius (notoriously pro-abortion, counted the late George Tiller as a friend and campaign benefactor) would decide what the benefits would be included in the government-defined package.
Unless abortion is specifically excluded, which it currently is not, abortion would eventually be included. Why? It has been the goal of the pro-abortion movement forever to consider abortion as a mainstream medical “procedure.”
Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) wrote a letter to every member in the House which said “I am deeply disappointed that the health care reform package unveiled last week poses a grave threat to the unborn in our nation…Without abortion specifically excluded from any government-mandated or government-funded benefits package, abortion will be included. Time and time again, bureaucrats and courts have decided that abortion must be included in public health programs unless Congress explicitly provides otherwise….health care reform will be a death sentence for thousands of unborn children.”
Will Congressman listen, or follow the tune of Planned Parenthood and its congressional allies? Stay tuned.
We’ve been telling you for months that the Obama health care plan means abortions for everyone and paid for by you and me.
As Doug Johnson of the National Right to Committee puts it, “The pro-abortion movement sees federal ‘health care reform’ as a golden opportunity to force-feed abortion into every nook and cranny of the health-care delivery system. Their goal, as they sometimes put it, is to ‘mainstream’ abortion.
The vast majority of Republican members of Congress have recognized this and are insisting that any ‘health care reform’ measure must specifically exclude abortion coverage or funding.
Now, right-to-life Democrats in the U.S. House are joining their Republican counterparts in insisting that abortion be excluded from ‘health care reform.” A group of 19 Democrats sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying, “We cannot support any health care reform proposal unless it explicitly excludes abortion from the scope of any government-defined or subsidized health insurance plan.”
LifeNews.Com has the full scoop and a link to the letter. Find it here
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