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Issued Monday, March
8, 2010
PLEASE ACT IMMEDIATELY
ON THIS ALERT.
Please forward this
alert to any pro-life
lists.
President Obama and
House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi are making a
final, all-out push to
ram through a massive
health care
restructuring bill that
the National Right to
Life Committee (NRLC)
has branded "the most
pro-abortion single
piece of legislation
that has ever come to
the House floor for a
vote."
The health care bill
(H.R. 3590) has already
passed the Senate, on
December 24, 2009. In
order to enact it,
however, Obama and
Pelosi must convince a
majority in the House of
Representatives to also
vote for the bill.
The Associated Press
reported on March 7: "In
private pitches to
Democrats, President
Barack Obama says he
will persuade Congress
to pass his health care
overhaul even if it
kills him and even if he
has to ask deeply
distrustful lawmakers to
trust him on a promise
the White House doesn't
have the power to keep.
. . .The party's
strategy calls for House
Democrats, despite many
misgivings, to go along
with a health care bill
the Senate passed in
December [HR. 3590].
Obama would sign it into
law, but senators would
promise to make numerous
changes demanded by
House Democrats."
"House members who vote
for the Senate bill will
be accountable to their
constituents for what
the Senate bill
contains, including its
pro-abortion mandates
and subsidies, without
regard to . . solemn
assurances that Congress
will revisit the issue
in future legislation,
or any other artifice or
gimmick," said NRLC
Legislative Director
Douglas Johnson, in
a detailed statement on
the Senate bill
issued by NRLC on March
5. "Any House member who
votes for the Senate
health bill is casting a
career-defining
pro-abortion vote."
Even if you
previously have called
your representative to
oppose the health care
bill -- please do it
again! And ask
any like-minded friends
and relatives to do the
same. Remember,
President Obama and
Speaker Pelosi are
putting all their muscle
into this, and they are
getting plenty of help
from the mainstream news
media. It is critical
that your representative
gets loud and clear
guidance from the people
who he or she actually
represents.
Click on the red
telephone above, enter
your zip code, and
follow the easy steps to
send a message to your
representative in the
U.S. House of
Representatives!
Click here to read
entire alert.
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TAKE ACTION NOW!
Time is short. Most
political observers
agree that if Speaker
Pelosi does not succeed
in ramming the Senate
bill through the House
by the time Congress
goes into recess for
Easter on March 26, the
bill is effectively
dead. Pelosi wants to
force the vote by March
19. But, she does not
yet have the votes. "I
think we can get there,
but I'm going to need
help from any place I
can get it," Pelosi told
one group, according to
the Los Angeles Times
(March 8).
Whether she succeeds or
not depends on what
House members hear from
their constituents
during the next two
weeks.
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