National Right to Life: Any House member who votes for the Senate health bill is casting a career-defining pro-abortion vote

By Online Friday, March 5, 2010

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.

The Senate health bill is a 2,407-page labyrinth strewn with the legislative equivalents of improvised explosive devices— disguised provisions that will result in federal pro-abortion mandates and federal subsidies for abortion. The so-called abortion limits that are in the Senate bill are all very narrow, riddled with loopholes, or booby-trapped to expire. Some of them were drafted more with the intent of misleading superficial analysts (which unfortunately includes some media “factcheckersâ€