Day 1 - Inform and Reflect
Pro-life House Democrats who voted for the Republican-opposed health care bill are being targeted for defeat by the far right, despite these Democrats having histories of near 100% ratings by mainstream pro-life groups.
Due to these same Democrats' work on advancing the Hyde Amendment within the health care law and their history of near 0% ratings by NARAL, Planned Parenthood and the like, abortion advocates on the left are working overtime to see that these House members are at least challenged in primaries, if not defeated outright.
Based on the distortions promulgated by each side, the right and the left both claim that one cannot be pro-life and a Democrat. We know better!
Today, DFLA offers you information on the contents of the health care reform law specially intended to be concise, neutral, and devoted to fact, not driven by ideology or some supposed prophetic insight as to the outcome of all this. We invite you to arm yourself with facts so that you can speak out against disinformation and incivility. We also hope to encourage you to persevere as a pro-life Democrat and even to increase your activity in the Party and in your community in promoting our "whole life" ethic.
If there is only one party having a voice for the unborn, our nation will return to the stalemate we saw in the decades prior to the resurgence of pro-life Democrats in the late 2000's. Don't let it happen!
From the Kaiser Family Foundation: their new
Summary of the New Health Care Reform Law
From FactCheck.org, a service of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania : The Abortion Issue: What are the facts regarding the new health insurance law's federal funding for abortion, or lack of it?
From Politifact.com, a service of the St. Petersburg Times, the Austin American-Statesman, and the Miami Herald newspapers:
Rep. John Carter says health care law provides full federal funding for abortions, but that's not so
We invite your comments or requests for more information. Look for two more emails to follow during Pro-life Democrats Days. We need your support, thoughts, and prayers more than ever! Thank you.
The bill says the States can opt out
Of abortion the Fed's will pass out
If it's there in the print
Why can't some get th'hint
Something's fishy in all this (no doubt).
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