Posted on 12/04/2009 8:02:45 PM PST by Sun
I received this from a friend via email:
"Urgent! Senate to vote on amendment on government-funded abortion
What to do: Call your senator in Washington. Now!
Why now: The Hatch-Nelson amendment will be filed to prevent government funding of abortion. Things could move very quickly, so call now. When we know this amendment is moving it could be too late to notify you.
Message: No government-funded abortion. Vote for the Hatch-Nelson Amendment."
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The content of any federal version of health care is irrelevant! The only salient point is the fact any federal version of government run health care is unconstitutional since Article 1 Section 8 does not specifically grant Congress the power to regulate health care! This is the point people need to be hammering home with their politicians!
I’ve been calling my reps, and now my senators, telling them to scrap the bill, and write letters to editors to get others to do the same. But -IF- the bill is passed, at the very least I don’t want govt.-funded abortions.
I completely agree. I wish conservatives would stop looking at individual issues and trying to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear. If Republicans would not help pass this amendment, it would be fully on the Dems’ heads and would not likely pass because of the firm stance some Dems have about this issue. This “helping to pass amendments” to improve the pigsty is killing us. Rush is right: NO MORE SINGLE ISSUES!!
“NO MORE SINGLE ISSUES!!”
How about 50 million “issues?” That’s how many innocent unborn babies have been killed since Roe.
Sorry, but it’s the “single issue fixing” of this atrocious bill that is keeping it alive. I’m against abortion also - but I’m even more against this nightmare bill. Helping the Dems who have an issue with abortion being funded through this bill to pass an amendment banning it is just helping them get it “acceptable” to those “single issue” voters. There is so much wrong with this bill it needs to be KILLED with a stake driven through its heart. Passing an amendment against this or that won’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear. It will only give the appearance of doing so - something which we cannot afford to do!
I just don’t want to take the chance of more unborn children being aborted -IF- it gets passed, and I’ve been fighting harder than most trying to stop it from being passed altogether. (Ask my priest and my family who email me to tell me they read another one my letters to the editor about scraping the bill altogether.)
I understand, but only if ALL of these “single issues” also get fixed should ANY of our side work for amending ANY portion of this bill: bank accounts being accessible to the government, rationed care, government option, doctors being penalized for exceeding type of care deemed “normal” or “rational” by an unelected board of bureaucrats, fines for those not carrying health insurance, having the government choose what is covered in your insurance plans and what type of insurance you should be buying for your family. The ENTIRE bill is so atrocious and liberty-killing that it would take an ENTIRELY NEW BILL to make it acceptable - not just piece-mealing it together in cobbled pieces in hopes of making it less offensive to the majority of Americans.
How about Nelson says he won’t vote for the health care bill if this amendment fails.
I’d rather see the entire thing go down the tubes versus giving my senator an opportunity to help this unconstitutional piece of crap legislation pass.
No amendment, no place for Ben Nelson to hide.
Had the Republicans in the House followed Shadegg’s lead by voting PRESENT on the Stupek amendment, this monstrosity would have been killed right there and then.
No more cover for democrats.
KILL THE BILL IN ITS ENTIRETY.
We all want the bill killed, so we agree on that.
So what are you doing about it?
Please share your ideas, or what you have already done to kill the bill.
What we (hopefully) are all doing about it. I am calling, faxing, e-mailing, writing letters. But I am very specific when I talk to anyone and I tell them that fixing ______ or ________ is NOT sufficient and will NOT result in a good bill. I enumerate the MANY problems in the bill because I l WILL not leave them with the impression that one issue is my only problem with the bill - whatever the one issue happens to be and that if they just fix that, everything else is fine and dandy.
I’m glad you’re doing your part in stopping this horrible bill.
Since they ignore us, after I contact them, I report what I said or wrote, and send it as a short letter to the editor. MAYBE they will pay better attention if thousands of readers of a newspaper read our ideas.
For instance, here is my editor’s letter to a newspaper, which was published:
“Editor:
Here is my note to my rep. re: national healthcare:
“My husband’s and my suggestions for health care reform are tax deductions for health care costs, tort reform, allowing Americans to purchase their health insurance from any company in the country and health savings accounts.
I do not want any kind of bill, just improvements on the current health care system. However, IF a bill were to pass, there should be amendments that stipulate NO abortion, euthanasia or denial of treatment because of age or severity of illness.
Thank you,”
More recently I wrote this letter which was published in two newspapers:
“Editor:
This week I called Senators Schumer and Gillibrand, and told them both: “Please stop ignoring us. We don’t want government healthcare; we want jobs.” If they ignore us, yet again, we know what to do on their election days.
After making the call, though, I became a little nervous. I hope our senators don’t think I want them to mess around with the job market, too. The govt. will only make the economy even worse. Lower taxes for businesses, and let the free market work.”
(My last paragraph was to add a bit of levity while making a point.)
Good for you for sending letters to the editor. I haven’t tried that yet. I have one great Senator (Vitter), and one not so great (the now-infamous Landrieu). I have called, faxed, e-mailed, etc... Landrieu’s office for literally months now. Like you, I do feel that those on the Dem. side of the aisle are a bit “tone-deaf”. I pray diligently and often that God will continue to confuse and scramble their efforts as I believe He has done so far. There may be no way to stop something from passing, but the outrage which will ensue is going to be jaw-dropping for a lot of those ostriches on Capitol Hill. I think they’re in for a rude awakening come Fall 2010. Most of us can’t wait for Election Day to come - and if they ram this through with the polls continually dropping for the support of their so-called “Reform” and the Pres., there WILL be a blood-letting come 2010!!
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