Take Action!

Take Action Against Government Funded Abortions!
(http://stoptheabortionmandate.com/take-action/)
The current health care plan is a thinly veiled attempt to pass the cornerstone elements of the Freedom of Choice Act, which would ensure taxpayer-funded abortion.
But IT CAN BE stopped and YOU CAN HELP!

1. Call your Senators and Representatives and tell them you want an explicit exclusion of abortion coverage in any health care reform bill.
2. E-mail and Fax your Senators and Representatives and tell them you want an explicit exclusion of abortion coverage in any health care reform bill.
3. Meet with your Senators and Representatives at their district or Capitol Hill offices or confront them at a townhall meeting.
4. Write a letter to the editor. Tell your local paper that taxpayers should not be forced to pay for abortions.
5. Attend an event. Many organizations are hosting events on health care this summer.
6. Twitter and Facebook for StopTheAbortionMandate.com.

Talking Points to defend your argument:
(http://stoptheabortionmandate.com/prep/get-the-facts/fact-sheettalking-points/)
Government Run Health Care = Mandated taxpayer-funded abortion: A cornerstone of the Freedom of Choice Act will be a direct mandate under the new healthcare plan, forcing Americans to subsidize abortions.

Piecemeal implementation of the Freedom of Choice Act through healthcare legislation amounts to every American being forced to fund abortions, a mandate that every insurance plan cover abortion, and an increase in abortion clinics across the country.

Americans don’t support taxpayer-funded abortions. A recent poll in Ohio showed 70% of those surveyed oppose using taxpayer dollars to pay for abortions.

Under the healthcare plan, virtually every American will eventually be in a plan that includes abortion by requiring individuals to buy health insurance that meets minimum benefits standards determined by unelected government bureaucrats. If the law does not clearly state that abortion is excluded, abortion automatically becomes a minimum required benefit for all public and private healthcare plans.

If unamended the Obama healthcare restructuring bill will be the most massive abortion expansion since Roe v. Wade.

Empirical data shows that when abortion is a covered service, there are more abortions.
It is extremely unfortunate that at a time when American taxpayers are trying to stretch their dollar as far as possible as their jobs are lost, homes are foreclosed, food prices rise and the economy continues to decline, President Obama and abortion industry allies in Congress would mandate taxpayer funding of abortion.

Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, received over $350 million in taxpayer funding last year and ended the year with a $112 million surplus. Washington has already mandated that taxpayers fund billions of dollars in bailouts and stimulus packages.
It is beyond the pale to now mandate that taxpayers be forced to bail out an abortion industry swimming in profits.

A majority of Americans (63%) support conscience protection rules, which protects doctors, nurses and other medical professionals should they choose not to perform a medical procedure, like abortion, which they are morally opposed to. No conscience protections are currently in the healthcare legislation.

Liberal Democrats and pro-abortion on demand groups are working furiously to exclude language that would ban abortions from being covered by taxpayers under the pretense of healthcare.

President Obama and liberals in Congress say they want health care reform, but they are using health reform as a way to ram through taxpayer funded abortion. Pro-abortion groups such as Planned Parenthood and NARAL have admitted they hope to mandate “access” to abortion for “all women” through national health care reform legislation.

Abortion is not healthcare, as the pro-abortion organizations would like Americans to believe, and it should not be mandated under any health insurance plan, especially one that Americans will be forced to subsidize.

Specific language must be written into the healthcare bill that excludes taxpayer funds from paying for abortions