December 15, 2009 02:18 AM UTC

RIP: A Coloradan a Day... So Long as that Person is Not Unborn

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• by: irkedbyzealots

The Oz-ian curtain has been pulled back from the so-called “pro-lifers”: The National Right to Life Committee today effectively said health reform can only pass if it denies access to safe, legal abortion. It shouldn’t pass if it merely maintains the status quo on abortion (which, through the Hyde Amendment that has been re-enacted annually since 1976, already bans the use of federal dollars to pay for abortion except in cases of rape, incest or if a woman’s life is at risk)… thereby “only” saving the lives of already-born people like the: (list of who dies due to lack of health insurance after the jump)

Background: The National Right to Life Committee today sent an e-alert out to activists asking them to call their senators to urge a “no” vote on the Senate health-reform bill:

From: nrlc@nrlc.org

To: michel…@gmail.com

Today’s News & Views

December 14, 2009

Call Your Two United States Senators Today!

Part One of Three

By Dave Andrusko

….If pro-abortion Democrats in the Senate are able to ram through a holiday gift to Planned Parenthood, it wouldn’t be because they didn’t know the public is opposed to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s bill and that this opposition is growing.

….NRLC is strongly in opposition. Whereas pro-lifers were able to pass the Stupak-Pitts amendment in the House version, 240-194, the Senate equivalent (Nelson-Hatch) lost 54-45.

Both had the same intent: to prevent the proposed new government health insurance program — the “public option” — from paying for abortions, and also to prevent federal funds from being used to subsidize the purchase of private health plans that pay for elective abortion.

Your help is indispensable, more crucial than ever. Please telephone the offices of your two U.S. senators….When you call, urge your two U.S. senators to oppose the Reid health care bill (H.R. 3590), and to oppose “cloture.”(my emphasis)

This follows last week’s vote by the Senate to reject an anti-choice abortion coverage ban — the Hatch-Nelson amendment — that would have made it nearly impossible for anyone buying health insurance through the new exchange, including a private plan, to choose a plan that covers abortion — even if they paid with their own money! As a result, millions of American women who currently have health insurance coverage for abortion through their existing plans would have been stripped of coverage. The House anti-choice amendment, the Stupak-Pitts abortion coverage ban, was added to the House bill, so final fate rests on whatever Harry Reid does to get Lieberman & the-Ds-in-name-only to get in line to support cloture and whatever comes out of the conference committee.