At the Eleventh Hour Four Important Considerations
Which Will Motivate You to Call Congress
Part One of Two

By Dave Andrusko

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With an historic vote on health care "reform" scheduled for Saturday in the House, there are four important considerations pro-lifers must keep foremost in their minds as reasons to call the House of Representatives now! The common denominator is not to allow pro-abortionists to do what they do best--hide their real intent--or disguise how radically out of step they are with the American people.

#1. No matter how many times you may have already done so, call the House of Representatives again. The best way to do so (along with some talking points) can be found at http://www.capwiz.com/nrlc/callalert/index.tt?alertid=14236481&type=CO. Why is this essential? Because your calls are like stacking sandbags against a rising tide of anti-life aggression.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid

Step back and look at the big picture. Pro-abortion Democrats, who constitute the entirety of the party's leadership, have always had a blueprint for expanding the range of the possible. With the election of pro-abortion President Barack Obama and strong anti-life majorities in both houses, they are trying to pass the kind of health care "reform" that would provide the bricks and mortar to turn their fondest dream--a quantum leap forward in the killing--into a bloody reality.

#2. You have to be on the alert--Red Alert--both because of the magnitude of what is at stake and because pro-abortion Democrats are smart enough to use "pro-life" Democrats to provide them cover at the eleventh hour. If a Congressman or Congresswoman is genuinely sincere about wanting to remove abortion from the House proposal [H.R. 3962], the vehicle is the Stupak-Pitts Amendment. If they are not--if their goal is to establish a federal government insurance plan, the public option, which is explicitly authorized to pay for all elective abortions--then they will salute the latest counterfeit, the Ellsworth Amendment.

NRLC Legislative Director Douglas Johnson said that if there is a floor vote on the Stupak amendment, "it is very likely it would be adopted, because the Stupak amendment really just applies the principle of the Hyde Amendment.

" He added, "And I think Speaker Pelosi and the White House think so too, and that's why they're fighting so hard against it."

#3. The reason Speaker Pelosi is pushing so hard for a vote in the next 24 hours is the same reason she and others wanted health care "reform" voted on in August: the more people learn, the more troubled they become. Take what is happening to the American Medical Association.

On Thursday the AMA signaled its support for HR 3962 days. However, under the headline "AMA endorsement has group split," Politico reported, "The American Medical Association's decision to endorse the House reform bill before its members had a chance to weigh in has dissenting factions threatening a 'showdown' this weekend.

"Opponents of the group's endorsement are planning to introduce multiple resolutions to rescind or amend the AMA's nod, according to an official whose doctor group opposes today's endorsement. 'All is not happy in Denmark. There is a split within the ranks of the physician community,' the official said. 'Clearly, the AMA does not represent the views of all physicians.'"

#4. To come full circle, Pelosi and Reid and Obama have to deny the obvious because the American public doesn't--and never has--supported funding abortion. To take just two recent examples, Rasmussen polled 1,000 likely voters in September and asked, "Should health insurance paid for or subsidized with government funding be required to cover abortions, be prohibited from covering abortions, or have no requirements concerning abortions?"

48% said such insurance should be prohibited from covering abortions to only 13% that said it should be required to cover abortion.

International Communications Research asked a variety of questions in September of 1,043 adults, but for determining what people really believe, this one is the most interesting: "If the choice were up to you, would you want your own insurance policy to include abortions?"
68% said no, 24% said yes.

Final reminder: go to http://www.capwiz.com/nrlc/callalert/index.tt?alertid=14236481&type=CO so that you can call your member of the House of Representative. In addition go to www.nrlc.org and find Today's News & views, which is under "Stay Informed" at the top. Once you click it on, you will find this edition of TN&V, which you can then easily share with your social networks.

A week from now you won't want to have to look back and say, "If only…."

Please send your comments to daveandrusko@gmail.com.

Part Two