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From Emily Buchanan, executive director, Susan B. Anthony List:
Demand Answers at Town Hall Meetings!
With Congress in recess, many Representatives are holding Town Hall meetings so that constituents can voice their opinions.
As you’ve probably heard in the news, thousands of American voters are coming together at these Town Hall meetings to demand answers from their Representatives concerning the health care bill.
It is time for Susan B. Anthony List Pro-Life Activists to get involved and demand answers on why Congress wants to use our tax dollars to provide abortion coverage in every health care plan, public or private.
Already, Representatives are feeling the heat on abortion.
Just yesterday, when asked about abortion coverage in the health care bill,
Rep. John Dingell, the chief sponsor of the bill, responded: “There will be no payment of taxpayer funds for abortion.”
Simply put, this is a bold-faced lie.
Just this week, the Associated Press (AP) wrote a story
headlined, “Gov’t insurance would allow coverage for abortion.”
The truth is on our side, and we must make sure we share the truth with every member of Congress face-to-face to Stop the Abortion Mandate!
Here are 5 easy ways that you can make a difference in your community:
1. Find local Town Hall meetings sponsored by your Representatives. Click Here for a list of Town Hall meetings across the country.
2. Bring a homemade sign that says, “Abortion is NOT Health Care” with www.StopTheAbortionMandate.com
below it.
3. Simply ask your Representative: “Why is the current health care bill forcing me to pay for abortion coverage?” Click here for more sample questions and tips!
4. If your Representative denies the charge, hold up the Associated Press story and read the headline. Ask them why they are lying about abortion coverage in the bill. Click Here to print out the Associated Press story.
5. Please bring a video camera and have someone record your question and record the response. Contact us at information@sba-list.org so we can help you send us the video. At the Town Hall, seek out members of the press and do interviews with them.
Emily Buchanan
Executive Director, Susan B. Anthony List
703-875-3370
www.sba-list.org
From Americans United for Life Action’s Charmaine Yoest:
Just yesterday, in a USA Today op-ed, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) argued that the people attending town hall meetings and questioning the wisdom of the House health care reform bill have been “un-American.” “Opponents are afraid not just of differing views,” they write, “but of the facts themselves.”
But as John Adams famously argued in 1770, “Facts are stubborn things.”
The truth is that there is nothing more American than the First Amendment right to “petition the government for a redress of grievances.” The facts of the plan under consideration demand that pro-life Americans speak up now or risk being forced to pay for a plan that mandates taxpayer funds for abortion, strips health care providers of conscience rights, and threatens the ill and elderly with denial of care.
Here’s a better idea than questioning one another’s patriotism: show them you’re not afraid of the facts. Go to your U.S. senator or representative’s town hall meeting and ask informed questions. AUL’s legal team has written a talking-points flyer for pro-lifers to distribute at these meetings. It gives detailed information on the parts of the bills under consideration that relate to abortion, end-of-life care, and conscience rights. The flyer also includes our three essential principles that must be in any health care reform plan that protects life. Click here to download the flyer.
All the information on the flyer is also available on AUL’s RealHealthCareRespectsLife.com, along with additional in-depth analysis from our legal experts on the health care reform plans currently in the House and Senate. If you haven’t done so already, make sure to sign the site’s petition to add your voice to the thousands urging the President to keep abortion out of health care. Thank you for joining me in protecting and defending life!
Caught on Tape: Obama Calls Abortion the Center of His Health Care Agenda
If you’ve seen our FightFOCA.com, you know that, as a presidential candidate, Barack Obama promised abortion advocates at a Planned Parenthood conference that the “first thing” he’d do as President was to sign the Freedom of Choice Act. Thankfully, you and the 700,000 others who signed our “Fight FOCA” petition helped convince him that was a bad idea. But did you know that, at that same conference, Obama said that mandated abortion coverage would be at the “center and heart” of his health care agenda? He did, and we’ve got the tape.