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Sep 23
2009

Baucus Bill still funds abortions - let's stop it.

Posted by: Thomas Peters in

Tagged in: health care , action item , abortion

Thomas Peters

Currently it appears that the Senate is poised to debate health care before the House does. Here is where the Senate-side bill created by Sen. Baucus stands in committee:

"Though the revised Baucus bill fixes one concern, it does not tackle the list of problems pro-life organizations have with the bill and all of those abortion subsidy concerns remain.

"The bill contains provisions that would send massive federal subsidies directly to both private insurance plans and government-chartered cooperatives that pay for elective abortion," Douglas Johnson of the National Right to Life Committee previously explained.

"In addition, the Baucus bill requires that a specific charge must be included in the premiums paid by those who enroll in such subsidized plans, of at least '$1 per enrollee, per month,' which amounts to a surcharge specifically for elective abortions," he said. "The Baucus bill provides $6 billion in federal funds for the establishment of health insurance cooperatives, without any limitation on the use of these funds to pay for abortions or to subsidize plans that pay for elective abortions."

To fix these problems, pro-life senators have proposed a handful of amendments that the committee will vote on as soon by Friday, but possibly as soon as today." (LifeNews)

Here are the members of the Senate finance committee:

DEMOCRATS:

MAX BAUCUS, MT
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER IV, WV
KENT CONRAD, ND
JEFF BINGAMAN, NM
JOHN F. KERRY, MA
BLANCHE L. LINCOLN, AR
RON WYDEN, OR
CHARLES E. SCHUMER, NY
DEBBIE STABENOW, MI
MARIA CANTWELL, WA
BILL NELSON, FL
ROBERT MENENDEZ, NJ
THOMAS CARPER, DE

REPUBLICANS:

CHUCK GRASSLEY, IA
ORRIN G. HATCH, UT
OLYMPIA J. SNOWE, ME
JON KYL, AZ
JIM BUNNING, KY

MIKE CRAPO, ID PAT ROBERTS, KS JOHN ENSIGN, NV
MIKE ENZI, WY
JOHN CORNYN, TX

The US Capitol switchboard number is 202-224-3121. They will connect you to your Senator's office.

The pro-life amendments being voted on soon are numbers 354, 355, 426, 427, 428 and 353.

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