The health-care bill filed last week by House speaker Nancy Pelosi may come up for a vote as early as the end of this week. This morning’s Washington Post reports that there may be enough Democrats who object to the pro-abortion provisions of the bill (as many as 40) that it could be defeated. “The abortion dispute centers both on federal subsidies that would be provided for people who cannot afford health-care coverage themselves and the much-debated government insurance alternative, which is included in the Hose version of the bill but is still being debated in the Senate,” the Post reports (www.wahsingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article.html).
Though the bill reported out of the Senate Finance Committee three weeks ago differs from this House version of health-care legislation in many respects, the pro-abortion portions of the two pieces of legislation are complex but essentially the same. In a recent letter to Speaker Pelosi signed by 183 House members and led by Democrat Bart Stupak of Michigan, members argued that “[t]he U.S. government should not be in the business of promoting abortion as health care. Real health care is about saving and nurturing life, not about taking life.”
Would you please take the time today to email your two U.S. senators and your U.S. House representative to let them know of your opposition to the abortion provisions in health care legislation as it now stands? Whatever else you may think of this legislation, these provisions run headlong into the Bible’s teaching that God’s people must upheld the sanctity of human life from conception to natural death. Here is the short email I will be sending today:
Dear Congressman/Senator ________________:
I write you today to express my adamant opposition to any health-care legislation that includes provisions for federal financing of abortion, as do both House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s bill filed last week and the bill reported out of the Senate Finance Committee on October 13. I agree with all my heart with the 183 members of the House of Representatives who signed a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi and who argued that “[t]he U.S. government should not be in the business of promoting abortion as health care. Real health care is about saving and nurturing life, not about taking life.” It is the duty of the law to protect human life from conception to natural death, and the two bills pending at this time instead promote a “culture of death.” Thank you very much for opposing the health care bills as they are now written.
Respectfully yours,
Stephen E. Farish
Libertyville, Illinois
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