To oppose six major abortion problems in Senate health bill

National Right to Life sends letters urging pro-life lawmakers in U.S. House

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Tuesday, January 12, 2010

The National Right to Life Committee

WASHINGTON—The National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the federation of right-to-life organizations in all 50 states, has sent new letters to many members of the U.S. House of Representatives, urging them to oppose any final health care bill that fails to correct six major abortion-related problems found in the Senate-passed health care bill.

The letter concludes: “NRLC believes that enactment of the abortion-related provisions of the Senate-passed health care bill would ultimately result in substantial expansions of abortion, driven by federal administrative decrees and federal subsidies, and a vote to advance such legislation would be described in those terms in the NRLC congressional scorecard for the 111th Congress. In contrast, inclusion of the substance of the House-passed abortion language, on the six points cited above, would preserve long-established federal policies on abortion, and would fully address our concerns regarding the abortion policy issues.â€