This week the Senate Finance Committee began its “mark-up” or amendment-offering process for Senator Baucus proposed health care legislation. Since its release last week, Sen. Baucus’ plan has gone through many changes. Of the 564 amendments proposed by members of the Senate Finance Committee, several are pro-life amendments and were offered up by Senators Enzi (R-Wyoming) and Hatch (R-Utah). Many of their amendments are designed to explicitly ban federal dollars from going to abortion procedures, prohibit public and private insurance plans that would mandate abortion, protect state laws prohibiting abortion, as well as ensure conscience protections for pro-life doctors and nurses.
Today, after intense debate, the Senate Finance Committee adjourned without voting on any of the proposed pro-life amendments. Voting has instead been postponed for the weekend and will resume this upcoming Tuesday, September 29, 2009. In the meantime, pro-life legislators like Enzi and Hatch are expected to devote all of their efforts towards raising support for their amendments amongst committee members.
The offering and acceptance of pro-life amendments to Senator Baucus’ health care bill is the first step toward ensuring that federal tax dollars do not go to the largest expansion of abortion since Roe v. Wade. Please contact your senators and tell them to stand with Senator’s Enzi and Hatch. Abortion is not health care!
If your Senator is a member of the Senate Finance Committee, call the U.S. Capitol Switchboard at (202)224-3121 and ask for your senators’ office. Tell them to support the pro-life amendments sponsored by Senators Enzi and Hatch when the committee comes back to work on Tuesday!
Montana: MAX BAUCUS
West Virginia: JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER IV
North Dakota: KENT CONRAD
New Mexico: JEFF BINGAMAN
Massachusetts: JOHN F. KERRY
Arkansas: BLANCHE L. LINCOLN
Oregon: RON WYDEN
New York: CHARLES E. SCHUMER
Michigan: DEBBIE STABENOW
Washington: MARIA CANTWELL
Florida: BILL NELSON
New Jersey: ROBERT MENENDEZ
Delaware: THOMAS CARPER
Iowa: CHUCK GRASSLEY
Utah: ORRIN G. HATCH
Maine: OLYMPIA J. SNOWE
Arizona: JON KYL
Kentucky: JIM BUNNING
Idaho: MIKE CRAPO
Kansas: PAT ROBERTS
Nevada: JOHN ENSIGN
Wyoming: MIKE ENZI
Texas: JOHN CORNYN
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