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• "This Is A Health Care Bill, Not An Abortion Bill"

  By Ian Kelly • November 10, 2009 04:02 PM

  President Obama tells Jake Tapper that Congress needs to change abortion-related language in the health care bill passed by the House of Representatives this weekend.

  "I laid out a very simple principle, which is this is a health care bill, not an abortion bill," Obama said. "And we're not looking to change what is the principle that has been in place for a very long time, which is federal dollars are not used to subsidize abortions.

  What the President is getting at is that the Stupak amendment went to far in preventing taxpayer funded abortions. Basically, that "very simple principle" is a bit tricky.

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• Dems Looking To Codify Hyde Amendment For Health Bill

  By Ian Kelly • October 28, 2009 12:13 PM

  
  "We're working very closely with Bart Stupak (D-MIch.) and that coalition of Democrats to write a the bill in a way that makes it absolutely clear that no public dollars can go to funding abortions as part of the health reform bill," Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), the assistant to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), said during an appearance on Fox News this morning.

  "We're trying to codify the Hyde amendment as part of the health care reform bill," Van Hollen explained.

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• Prayer Surge for Health Care Bill

  By Matt Lockett • October 21, 2009 04:31 PM

   On Monday the Senate Finance Committee’s health care bill was filed in the Senate. Take a look at the 1,502 pages, and it’s what you won’t find that is so unsettling. To date every single attempt by pro-life lawmakers to insert language that guarantees what President Obama promised has been blocked or voted down. That promise from his speech to the joint session of Congress was that there would be:

  “No government funding of abortion.”

  The Committee’s bill has no language that expressly prevents the inclusion of abortion under government-run health care. Disinformation and confusion persist even as polls show that the overwhelming majority of Americans DO NOT want taxpayer-funded abortion.

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• Stop Hiding Behind Hyde

  By Ian Kelly • October 07, 2009 01:46 PM

  If the current Health Care legislation is not completely payed for out of these funds, then Hyde does NOT cover it. Again, if the money does not come from the HHS Appropriations Bill, Hyde offers us no protections. Thus tax-payer money CAN and WILL go to paying for abortions. We need legislation that explicitly says federal dollars will not pay for abortions anything less is a blank check from the Treasury Department to the Abortion Industry... of course with yours and my name on it.

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• Why We Need An Amendment

  By Ian Kelly • September 17, 2009 04:27 PM

  Some think the debate over whether or not Health Care reform will pave the way for tax-payer funded abortion to be a pointless idea. While others believe that the Hyde Amendment bans federal money from paying for abortions. This however is only partly true.

  I want to quickly give the reason why we need an amendment that clearly states that no money will be used to pay for abortions in anyway.

  Simply put, the Hyde Amendment will not do the trick!

  The Hyde Amendment is a "rider" bill -- meaning it is "limitation amendment" of sorts. The Hyde amendment restricts funding of abortions by creating rules for the appropriation of funds within Medicaid.

   

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• Congress Has Obliged

  By Ian Kelly • July 20, 2009 04:57 PM

  For decades the District of Columbia has prohibited using public dollars for abortions, but President Barack Obama inserted a measure to reverse the ban in his new federal budget request and Congress has obliged. The president also inserted language in the new law to legalize marijuana for "medical purposes."

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