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LifeNotes
LifeNotes is a series of educational fact sheets produced by the Right to Life of Michigan Educational Fund which focus on specific life issues. LIFENOTES DIRECTORY

Michigan Newspaper Contact List
Letters to the editor are an important part of many newspapers. These letters allow readers to voice their views and respond to stories and editorials in the paper. GO TO A LIST of addresses and fax numbers of Michigan newspapers.

Prolife Picketing

Provides information, guidelines and suggestions for prolife picketing.

Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care
A Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care (DPOAHC) is a legal mechanism which allows you to appoint a person (agent/patient advocate) to make health care decisions for you should you become unable to do so. FULL BOOKLET

Halt the Assault on Human Life

Until the next mid-term elections in 2010, pro-abortion forces in Congress will have the opportunity to remove many prolife laws and create new ones assaulting the sanctity of human life. Prolife people need to come together to halt the assault on human life. HALT THE ASSAULT


President Obama's Abortion Agenda

President Obama's Record on Life

Feel free to download, print and distribute this fact sheet on President Obama's Record on Life.

Expanding the federal funding of embryonic stem cell research

On March 9, 2009, President Barack Obama announced and signed an order to overturn President Bush's limits on the funding of human embryonic stem cell lines. MORE

Rescinding conscience protections

On March 6, 2009, President Obama's administration moved to completely rescind protections President George W. Bush put in place to make sure medical staff and centers are not forced to do abortions. This again reveals President Obama's strong pro-abortion positions. MORE

U.S. Tax Dollars to International Abortion Provider

Michigan Senators Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow had an opportunity to keep our tax dollars from going to organizations who perform or promote abortions in foreign countries, but both chose instead to fund abortion providers in the name of "population assistance."
Roll Call Vote
Mexico City Policy

Abortion wish list given to President-Elect Obama

Change.gov, the web site of President-elect Barack Obama has recently posted a document entitled "Advancing Reproductive Rights and Health in a New Administration." The document was produced by abortion advocates (including Planned Parenthood and NARAL) who call on Obama to "advance and implement the(ir) agenda." MORE

 

 


Tell lawmakers: Reject Obama's pro-abortion health care bill



White House and top congressional Democrats are not giving up on passing a pro-abortion health care bill.

The Obama White House and top Democratic congressional leaders, although shaken by the January 19 election of Republican Scott Brown to the Senate seat previously held by Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.), are attempting to push broad health care legislation through Congress within a matter of weeks -- meaning that prolife interests remain in grave jeopardy.

On January 25, the Associated Press reported the emergence of a new plan which would allow the U.S. Senate to pass health care legislation with a 51-vote majority. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) may revise the Senate health care bill (H.R. 3590). If the U.S. House makes changes to the U.S. Senate health care bill and passes the bill, the bill will then be returned to the U.S. Senate. The U.S. Senate could use a procedure known as reconciliation and circumvent the need for a 60-vote majority. In this scenario, a majority of 51 Senators could amend their bill to address House concerns sending the bill to President Obama.

National Right to Life notes that the enactment of the abortion-related provisions of the health care bill passed by the Senate (H.R. 3590) would constitute the biggest expansion of abortion by Congress since Roe v. Wade.

"The Senate bill would result in direct federal funding of abortion, federal subsidies for private abortion insurance, and federal pro-abortion mandates," said NRLC Legislative Director Douglas Johnson. "This bill would be, by far, the biggest expansion of abortion ever approved by Congress since Roe v. Wade."

Each member of the House should be urged to oppose the Senate-passed health bill (H.R. 3590) because of the provisions that would result in abortion mandates and abortion subsidies.  It is especially important that Democrats who voted for the Stupak-Pitts Amendment on November 7, 2009, hear from constituents in opposition to the Senate bill. To view the House roll call on the Stupak-Pitts Amendment, click here.

Time is short! Please telephone the offices of your U.S. senators and your U.S. House member. The Washington offices of your representatives can be reached through the Capitol Switchboard, 202-224-3121. Or, for direct and local numbers, see the Congressional Contact Information.


Action Item:

Sign On-Line Petition

Call, fax and e-mail Senator Carl Levin, Senator Debbie Stabenow and your U.S. House Representative to let them know your desire to keep the government out of the abortion business.


Sample message: "I strongly urge you to oppose any health care legislation that does not contain explicit and comprehensive protections against federal subsidies for abortion and federal pro-abortion mandates. I am strongly opposed to the bill passed by the Senate on December 24 (H.R. 3590), which would result in funding of abortion, subsidies for private insurance plans that cover abortion, and pro-abortion federal mandates. The language of the Stupak-Pitts Amendment, approved by the House on November 7, 2009, is absolutely necessary in any health care bill."

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Responding to Senator Stabenow's Response

 
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  • Recent polls on whether abortion should be included in health care legislation (chart)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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