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National Right to Life:

"Any House member who votes for the Senate health bill is casting a career-defining pro-abortion vote"

WASHINGTON (March 5, 2010) -- The following statement may be attributed to Douglas Johnson, legislative director for the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) the federation of affiliated right-to-life organizations in all 50 states.

HOW IMPORTANT IS THE HOUSE VOTE ON THE HEALTH CARE BILL?

On abortion policy, the health care bill that Speaker Nancy Pelosi brought to the House floor last November was extremely bad (before the House fixed it by adopting the Stupak-Pitts Amendment) -- but the Senate health bill (H.R. 3590) is worse.

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SENATE HEALTH BILL WOULD BECOME EVEN MORE EXPANSIVELY

PRO-ABORTION IF MODIFIED BY NEW OBAMA PROPOSALS

WASHINGTON -- The following statement may be attributed to Douglas Johnson, legislative director for the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the federation of right-to-life affiliates in all 50 states.

Any member of Congress who votes for the final legislation proposed by President Obama will be voting for direct federal funding of elective abortion through Community Health Centers, and also an array of other pro-abortion federal subsidies and mandates.

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OBAMA PROPOSAL THREATENS TO DENY SENIOR CITIZENS ABILITY

TO USE OWN MONEY TO SAVE THEIR OWN LIVES

WASHINGTON -- The following statement may be attributed to Burke Balch, J.D., director of the National Right to Life Committee’s Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics.

The Obama health care proposal issued this morning would take away from America’s senior citizens their current right to add their own money on top of the government Medicare contribution to get health insurance less likely to deny treatment through tightly controlled managed care. (See http://www.nrlc.org/MedEthics/PLPositionMedicare.html) It would do so even as it cuts the government contribution to Medicare by hundreds of billions of dollars.

Under “Title III . . . Guaranteeing Benefits for Seniors by Ending Overpayments to Insurance Companies,” the Obama proposal states that Medicare Advantage plans – the alternative that now allows older Americans, if they wish, to pay more to get insurance less likely to ration treatment – will “be prohibited from charging seniors more than they would pay for services delivered under the traditional Medicare program.”

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Tennessee Right to Life Scorecards for Tennessee Legislature

Click here for the 2008 Tennessee Right to Life Scorecard for the Tennessee House of Representatives.

Click here for the 2009 Tennessee Right to Life Scorecard for the Tennessee Senate.

Click here for the 2009 Tennessee Right to Life Scorecard for the Tennessee House of Representatives.

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