Senate health care legislation will "levy a new 'abortion premium' fee on Americans in the government-run plan."
A small business receiving a federal tax credit "to provide health care for its employees ... would be barred under the Stupak Amendment from allowing their employees to use ... the health care that they offer them for abortion."
"The Stupak Amendment doesn't just say you can't use your federal insurance subsidy to pay for an abortion, it says, if you're getting a federal subsidy of any kind, you're not allowed to buy an insurance plan that covers abortion even with your own money."
"The public option is not funded with public money. It's funded with private insurance premiums."
The House of Representatives does not have a prochoice majority.
"President Obama campaigned on a promise to put reproductive health care at the center of his reform plan."
An amendment to the House health reform bill "puts new restrictions on women's access to abortion coverage in the private health insurance market even when they would pay premiums with their own money."
Health care reform "requires the use of federal dollars to fund abortions through the government-run health plan."
"Under the Baucus bill ... federal funds would subsidize coverage of elective abortions."
The Baucus bill "contains provisions that would send massive federal subsidies directly to both private insurance plans and government-chartered cooperatives that pay for elective abortion."
As a candidate, President Obama "declared that everyone deserves access to reproductive health care that includes abortion, and vowed that this 'right' would be at the heart of his health care reform plan if elected president."
The Democrat-backed health care reform plan "will require (Americans) to subsidize abortion with their hard-earned tax dollars."
Page 992 of the health care bill will "establish school-based 'health' clinics. Your children will be indoctrinated and your grandchildren may be aborted!"
John Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, "has proposed forcing abortions and putting sterilants in the drinking water to control population."
Says he didn't call Dr. George Tiller a baby killer, as liberal groups charge, but was merely reporting what "some prolifers branded him."
Obama nominee Dawn Johnsen "called motherhood 'involuntary servitude.'"
John McCain accused Barack Obama "of letting infants die."
Barack Obama voted against "born alive" legislation in Illinois that was "virtually identical to the federal law."
Barack Obama opposed a bill that would have saved Gianna Jessen's life.
"The fact is that although we have had a president who is opposed to abortion over the last eight years, abortions have not gone down.''
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