Powerful abortion industry lobbyists and Wasington, D.C., politicians have just launched a massive effort to mandate taxpayer-funded abortions as part of their proposed trillion-dollar healthcare takeover.
This political power-grab is an effort to implement one of the cornerstones of the "Freedom of Choice Act" (FOCA), and could lead to a massive abortion industry bailout -- something the overwhelming majority of Americans oppose, and certainly cannot afford in these tough economic times.
We the undersigned are writing to urge you to ensure that language is included in any health care reform proposal or bill to explicitly exclude abortion.
Excluding abortion from taxpayer-subsidized health care reform is true common ground policy supported by broad majorities of Americans.
Recent polling data confirms that a majority of Americans identify themselves as pro-life and that overwhelming majorities of those polled -- as high as 71% -- oppose public funding of abortion.
It is unthinkable that -- at a time when American families are trying to stretch their dollars as far as possible, jobs are being lost, homes are foreclosed, food prices are on the rise, and the economy continues to decline -- there is an effort to mandate taxpayer funding of abortion.
We also urge you to ensure that Americans are not forced into health plans with mandatory abortion coverage. If the law does not clearly state that abortion is excluded, abortion automatically becomes a minimum required benefit.
The current health care reform proposals, if enacted, would result in the greatest expansion of abortion since the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision imposed abortion on America in 1973.
Keep abortion out of health care.
We urge you to oppose any health care bill unless abortion is explicitly excluded from the scope of any federally mandated, federally subsidized, or federally defined health insurance plans.
