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Dear Friend,

Tonight, the Senate defeated the prolife Nelson-Hatch-Casey amendment, which mirrored the Stupak-Pitts language, prohibiting federal funds from being spent on destroying innocent life.

This crushing blow to the majority of Americans opposed to federal funding of abortion occurred after Senator Barbara Boxer of California motioned to table the amendment, a procedural move that spells defeat. 

The Senate has spoken.  They effectively endorsed the abortion lobby's goal of mainstreaming abortion as health care and paying for abortion with our tax dollars!

Well over 1,000,000 innocent lives are ended by abortions each year, and now the U.S. Senate has chosen to move forward with a health care bill that will allow our federal tax dollars to fund even more abortions. 

How can this be?

This morning, in a letter sent to Cecile Richards - the President of Planned Parenthood - and , I challenged Cecile to tell the American public how much money they will gain from the health care bill's expansion of abortion.

Planned Parenthood is a billion dollar industry but according to a recent , their business is struggling financially.  The abortion industry is the beneficiary of today's vote. This is an abortion business bailout bill.

HOW TO TAKE ACTION!

I ask you to stand with Americans United for Life Action, on the merits of our belief that all human life is a sacred gift, endowed by our creator.  This is NOT health care!  Real health care protects life!

What now?

Next step:

Please to vote NO on cloture in order to end debate and kill this bill.  We now have no choice but to work vigorously to defeat this bill.

Organize your friends and family to melt down your Senator's phone lines by calling (202) 224-3121 and with messages of NO to this pro-abortion bill!

Thank you for standing with us and defending life!

For Life,

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Dear Friend,

On Wednesday, the Senate Finance Committee's vote of 10-13 to defeat the proved the pro-life community correct: The talk from the White House and the Congressional leadership of avoiding funding of abortions in health care is just that -- talk.

The amendment sponsored by Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) would have explicitly prohibited federal funding and coverage of abortions.  Also defeated by the committee was another amendment by Sen. Hatch that would have prevented discrimination against any individual or organization who refused to provide, pay for, provide coverage of, or refer for abortions. 
 
So what does this mean?  Since the start of the health care debate, including at , Americans United for Life Action has argued consistently that rhetorical assurances that abortion funding will not be included in health care reform are not enough. Rhetoric must be matched with action, with the addition in the bills of specific language prohibiting abortion. Since all five committees have rejected pro-life amendments which would ban abortion funding and coverage in health care, it is clear that we MUST keep questioning the gap between reality and the rhetorical assurances we are hearing from President Obama, Majority Leader Reid and Speaker Pelosi. 
 
The AUL legal team has documented for you the facts behind their myth that would adequately prevent federal funding and coverage of abortion in health care reform. We want you to have the facts to make it easy to speak up.

Now that committee consideration of health care reform is over, the "behind the scenes" negotiations begin.  At this crucial stage, the Congressional leadership is going to be negotiating backroom deals with your legislators.  Be aware that the next page in the pro-abortion playbook will be that Pelosi and Reid are going to try to make a deal like the anti-life approach, which we oppose.  The anti-life Capps Amendment approach is not acceptable because for the first time in history, the federal government will require that there be a health insurance plan that covers abortion in every area.  Furthermore, the anti-life Capps Amendment permits federal money to go to insurance plans that cover abortion. 
 
I assure you, we are hearing that the "deals" being discussed by Congressional Leadership on Capitol Hill are merely anti-life initiatives in the guise of 'compromise,' such as the Capps Amendment approach, and this will NOT protect pro-lifers from subsidizing abortion in health care reform.

This is where you come in.

YOU need to that you will ONLY accept health care reform that includes an explicit prohibition on federal funding and coverage of abortion, much like the pro-life Stupak-Pitts and Hatch amendments that were defeated in Committees.

Thank you for all your support during this extremely busy time as we work to show Congress and all Americans that "Real Health Care Respects Life"!

For Life,

Dear Friend,

On Wednesday, the Senate Finance Committee's vote of 10-13 to defeat the proved the pro-life community correct: The talk from the White House and the Congressional leadership of avoiding funding of abortions in health care is just that -- talk.

The amendment sponsored by Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) would have explicitly prohibited federal funding and coverage of abortions.  Also defeated by the committee was another amendment by Sen. Hatch that would have prevented discrimination against any individual or organization who refused to provide, pay for, provide coverage of, or refer for abortions. 
 
So what does this mean?  Since the start of the health care debate, including at , Americans United for Life Action has argued consistently that rhetorical assurances that abortion funding will not be included in health care reform are not enough. Rhetoric must be matched with action, with the addition in the bills of specific language prohibiting abortion. Since all five committees have rejected pro-life amendments which would ban abortion funding and coverage in health care, it is clear that we MUST keep questioning the gap between reality and the rhetorical assurances we are hearing from President Obama, Majority Leader Reid and Speaker Pelosi. 
 
The AUL legal team has documented for you the facts behind their myth that would adequately prevent federal funding and coverage of abortion in health care reform. We want you to have the facts to make it easy to speak up.

Now that committee consideration of health care reform is over, the "behind the scenes" negotiations begin.  At this crucial stage, the Congressional leadership is going to be negotiating backroom deals with your legislators.  Be aware that the next page in the pro-abortion playbook will be that Pelosi and Reid are going to try to make a deal like the anti-life approach, which we oppose.  The anti-life Capps Amendment approach is not acceptable because for the first time in history, the federal government will require that there be a health insurance plan that covers abortion in every area.  Furthermore, the anti-life Capps Amendment permits federal money to go to insurance plans that cover abortion. 
 
I assure you, we are hearing that the "deals" being discussed by Congressional Leadership on Capitol Hill are merely anti-life initiatives in the guise of 'compromise,' such as the Capps Amendment approach, and this will NOT protect pro-lifers from subsidizing abortion in health care reform.

This is where you come in.

YOU need to that you will ONLY accept health care reform that includes an explicit prohibition on federal funding and coverage of abortion, much like the pro-life Stupak-Pitts and Hatch amendments that were defeated in Committees.

Thank you for all your support during this extremely busy time as we work to show Congress and all Americans that "Real Health Care Respects Life"!

For Life,