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Act Now to Prevent Government Bureaucrats and Abortion Industry Lobbyists from Forcing YOU to Pay for Abortions!

Powerful abortion industry lobbyists and Washington bureaucrats have launched a massive effort to mandate taxpayer-funded abortions as part of their proposed trillion-dollar healthcare takeover. With this largest federal power grab, the abortion industry and its political allies intend to:

• Force taxpayers to fund a huge bailout of the abortion industry – this will increase the number of abortions.
• Mandate that every American be forced into a health plan that includes abortion coverage.
• Require honorable medical providers to violate their consciences and perform abortions -- or risk losing their jobs.
• Raise abortion to a protected right like “Freedom of speech.”

This abortion mandate must be stopped! We need to act now!

Heartbeat International President Peggy Hartshorn, Ph.D., was one of the national leaders to speak during the historic “Stop the Abortion Mandate” webcast that attracted nearly 37,000 participants. You can listen at www.stoptheabortionmandate.com.

This mandate for abortion will put more pressure on women to abort and wipe out the protective laws, like informed consent, that help women with this critical decision. Eventually, mandated abortions could lead to laws requiring Pregnancy Help Centers to refer for abortions and pro-life medical professionals might be forced out of medicine.

Taxpayer funding for abortion could increase the number of abortions by 30% according to The Guttmacher Institute, the research arm of Planned Parenthood. This increase means more misery and suffering caused by the effects of abortion related trauma. Abortion is an assault on the dignity of the human person— it is not healthcare. Abortion does not improve your health.

We need to voice our objections to a healthcare plan that includes abortion coverage. We need to let our elected officials know that more than 70% of Americans oppose funding abortion with our tax dollars.

We must ask our government representatives to include language to explicitly exclude abortion from any healthcare reform bill or abortion will automatically become a minimum required benefit and ultimately a protected right. Let’s work to keep abortion out of healthcare!

What YOU can do to stop the government from using your tax dollars to pay for aborting babies:

1. Pray as if another’s life depends on your prayer.
2. Email and write letters to your Representative and two Senators
3. Call the Washington office and the local office of your Representative and two Senators
4. Spread the word! Tell everyone you know to visit: http://www.StopTheAbortionMandate.com/share
5. Write a “Letter to the Editor” of your local newspaper using samples at: http://www.StopTheAbortionMandate.com/editor
6. Participate in the Town Hall meetings organized by your elected officials. Let them know publicly that you are opposed to funding abortion.

Over 36,000 Participate in Webcast to Stop the Abortion Mandate in Obama Healthcare--LifeSiteNews.com

Obama Administration’s Health Care Plan

• HR 3200 currently under consideration in the House of Representatives It is important to keep in mind that this draft has gone through three committees and been revised with hundreds of amendments. At this point, there is no up to date version available, according to Rep. John Shimkus
• Overview of HR 3200 by Liberty Council   Click here for an overview chart of HR 3200
• Read more about the consequences of this bill in Matt Barber's article "Is There a Co-Pay with Forced Abortion?" Barber is Director of Cultural Affairs for Liberty Counsel and Associate Dean with Liberty University School of Law.
• 20 Questions to Ask Your Legislator About Health Care Overhaul by Family Research Council (.pdf)
• Gov't insurance would allow coverage for abortion
• Government Takeover: The moral, ethical and financial dangers of the President's Health Reform Plan
• The Great Socialist Takeover by Peter Ferrara
• FRC’s 30 second TV spot: “After a Government Takeover of Health Care”