Representative Chet Edwards (D-TX 17th)
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All messages are published with permission of the sender. The general topic of this message is Health:
Subject:
Abortion Funding In the Bill- How Deciteful

To:
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison
Rep. Chet Edwards
Sen. John Cornyn

November 6, 2009

Taxpayer Funding for Abortion is Not In My interest, and I believe most
Americans feel the same way, Why else is this SO HIDDEN and SO Disguised.

VOTE NO ON GOVERNMENT FUNDED ABORTION!!

President Obama said in many many speaches, he does not support this....
However he and the Truth rarely collide in the same sentence.

I know you """say what you mean and Mean what you
say"""""

Is there honor in the House and the Senate.

A Vote for the Pelosi Health Care Bill, whioch will not be posted to the
Net, as Both She just four days ago and in many many Speeches and Our
President Did as well, to show transperancy, Weel... they either Lied Then
or are lieing Now.

You representive Edwards are a person of principal.

A Vote for health Care is a Vote for Abortion in the Health Care Bill.

Cathloic Bishops say, :: This is nothing More Than Government Funded Money
Laundering to Fund Abortion.

I agree. What do you say, Representitive Edwards??

Please be aware of the following points on abortion funding in H.R. 3962.
The abortion concerns are the best chance to defeat the "rule" (a
procedural vote to proceed to debate) on Saturday:





•H.R. 3962 authorizes the "public option" to pay for all elective abortions
.
H.R. 3962 also creates a new national federal agency from which the
"public option" will be administered. All federal agencies operate purely
from federal funds because those are the only type of funds they can use,
and the new Health Insurance Exchange will be no different. Once private
dollars are transferred to the federal government or a federal agency in
the form of a fine, a tax, or a paid premium, they are then no longer
private funds - they become federal funds once the federal government
assumes control of them.

•The Ellsworth Amendment is a phony "pro-life" amendment. Sponsored by
so-called pro-life Democrat Rep. Brad Ellsworth (D-IN), this amendment,
which is being discussed as a possible inclusion to the Democrats' grand
Managers Amendment in an effort to appease some of the 40 pro-life
Democrats who have vowed to vote NO on a bill that provides for abortion
funding, will do nothing to prevent federal funds from going towards
abortion coverage. All the Ellsworth Amendment will do is require the
Health Insurance Exchange to hire contractors which will then pay the
abortionists. So, instead of the abortionist receiving a check directly
from the U.S. government, they will receive it from a contractor who is
funneled money through the U.S. government.


•The real Pitts-Stupak pro-life amendment was rejected in committee and
denied the chance to get a floor vote on Saturday. It is very important
that you tell your Representatives (especially the 40 pro-life Democrats)
that a vote for H.R. 3962 in its current form or even with the useless
Ellsworth Amendment amounts to a vote for the largest expansion of
abortion since Roe v. Wade (1973). Nothing less than an explicitly
exclusion of federal funding for abortion and government subsidies for
plans that cover abortion will be considered pro-life language.

Even worse, a sure sign that legislative language marketed to be
"pro-life" is in fact not pro-life is when one of Congress' most stalwart
abortion supporters has no problem with it:

"None of us really had any objections to the Ellsworth language. In fact,
we think he did a good job." -Pro-Choice Caucus co-chairwoman Louise
Slaughter (D-NY), Congress Daily, 11/4/09

Many people often ask us why President Obama hasn't yet moved a major
abortion bill through Congress-we say, the health care bill is his
abortion bill!


VOTE AGAINST THE RULE to H.R. 3962 because the "rule" does not allow an
up-or-down vote on the pro-life Pitts-Stupak amendment. A vote for the
"rule" is a vote to allow federal funding for elective abortions on a
massive scale for the very first time in American history.

We need our Representitives to stand up for there Constituents NOW.

Vote NO on Government Funded Abortions with Taxpayer Money!!

Bradenton , TX

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