Letters Needed about Health Care Reform

As Congress works to pass a comprehensive health care reform bill, we need to make sure that health care reform legislation doesn't make abortion a mainstream health care service. Letters to the editor of community newspapers and letters to our U.S. Senators and U.S. House Members are needed. Prolife groups who watch the inner workings of Washington are worried that the Obama administration and his allies in Congress will use health care reform as a way to insure that abortion on demand, paid with tax dollars, is the law of the land. Abortion is not health care. It is a procedure which intentionally takes the life of an innocent human being. We have to let our representatives know that it is unacceptable for abortion to become part of mainstream health care reform. Below are sample letters for you to use. Thank you for your willingness to protect unborn children by urging our lawmakers to explicitly exclude abortion from the scope of any government-defined or government mandated package of health care services.

Sample 1:

Dear Editor,

Poll after poll has shown that the majority of Americans don't think the federal government should be funding abortion coverage. Yet Democratic leaders seem bent on including federally-subsidized abortion coverage in health care reform. They simply do not understand that abortion is not health care.  I find it incredible that instead of trying to find solutions to problems in our health care system, they're attempting to sneak abortion coverage into health care reform against the will of the American people.

Sincerely,

Sample 2:

Dear Editor,

As Democratic leaders work to iron out the differences between the health care bills passed in their respective houses of Congress, I'll be keeping a close eye on how the final bill deals with abortion. One of the biggest obstacles facing health care legislation is abortion. Both prolife and many pro-choice people are uncomfortable with the abortion language in the Senate's version of health care reform.

I oppose the language in the Senate bill because it allows the federal government to subsidize private insurance plans that cover abortion on demand, to oversee multi-state plans that cover elective abortions and empowers federal officials to mandate that private health plans cover abortions even if they do not accept subsidized enrollees.

I cannot support health care reform if it breaks with current federal policy and allows the federal government to subsidize abortion coverage.

Sincerely,

Sample 3:

Dear Editor,

When the final language of health care reform legislation is revealed it will be interesting to see what the priorities of Democratic leaders are. Do they want a bill which prolife Democrat in the House of Representatives could support or a bill which attempts to subsidize abortion coverage? What's more important to them - passing health care reform or attempting to use federal funds to cover abortion?

Health care reform legislation passed the House of Representatives by only the slimmest of margins. It only passed because Congressman Bart Stupak, a prolife representative from Michigan, was allowed a vote on an amendment to prevent the federal government from funding or subsidizing abortion coverage. The Stupak amendment passed overwhelmingly. The Senate rejected the Stupak language and instead opted for language which will require the federal government to pay for premiums for private health care plans which cover abortion.

Sincerely,

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