[Pflienews] PharmFacts E-News Update: Message to BHO: catch the Tribune Citizen Challenge!

Mon Dec 1 11:34:18 MST 2008

*PharmFacts E-News Update -- 1 Dec 2008 AD
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****Reviewing the facts about the Prevention First Act *

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**/What is the Prevention First Act?/*//*

The Prevention First Act has several components, all of which would fund 
programs that are promoted by Planned Parenthood and would put millions 
more of our tax dollars into PP's coffers. These components include:

. Making Title X (family planning) a permanent program and funding it at 
$700 million or more. Since its inception in 1970, Title X of the Health 
and Human Services Act has always been a major funding source for PP. 
However, Title X is not a permanent program and must be reauthorized 
every year. Title X was funded at $300 million for fiscal year 2008. PP 
receives about 25 percent of the total or $75 million. Thus, the PFA 
would more than double the tax dollars given to PP ($175 million) by 
this one program. It would also make Title X a permanent program.

. Mandating that health insurance programs that cover prescriptions also 
cover abortifacient contraceptives. The PFA would take away the ability 
of consumers and insurance companies to seek the coverage they want and 
would force every insurance plan that covers prescription drugs to pay 
for birth control.

. Creating a government program to push abortifacient "emergency 
contraception." The PFA would create a government-funded five-year 
"educational" program to promote emergency contraception and drive even 
more Plan B business to PP.

. Taking all federal money away from any hospital that refuses to 
administer emergency contraception (an abortifacient), to rape victims. 
In addition, it would require that every hospital, even Catholic, 
Baptist and others opposed to abortion for religious reasons, MUST 
provide patients with emergency contraception or lose all of their 
federal funding.

. Creating additional massive government funding for PP-style sex 
education programs (abstinence-only programs are specifically excluded 
from funding). Under the subprogram named "At-Risk Communities Teen 
Pregnancy Prevention Act," the PFA would create a program to conduct 
research and educational sessions for the purpose of reducing teen 
pregnancy. All kinds of organizations (e.g. Planned Parenthood) would 
receive taxpayer funds, and all kinds of theories and ways of preventing 
teen pregnancy could be researched and taught EXCEPT abstinence-only 
programs.

. Permanently including family planning services as part of the Medicaid 
program. The Medicaid program was never intended to pay for family 
planning services. Yet, beginning in the 1990s, states started applying 
for Medicaid waivers to allow them to add family planning for 
Medicaid-eligible recipients. The federal government has approved these 
waivers, and their approval must be renewed, on a state-by-state basis, 
every five years. Because of the waivers, Medicaid is now the largest 
single program providing taxpayer money for PP. The PFA would do away 
with the need for waivers and write family planning services permanently 
into Medicaid, thereby opening the floodgates of taxpayer funding for PP 
even wider.

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/What is the status of the Prevention First Act?/*

It is important to note that the election ushers in a new Congress in 
January. The current Congress, the 110th Congress, will cease to exist 
at the end of this year. In January, the 111th Congress will begin, and 
all of the newly elected members of the House and Senate will be part of 
the 111th Congress. All existing bills must be re-introduced in the new 
Congress and assigned new numbers, and the legislative process for each 
of them will start "from scratch."  The PFA will have to be introduced 
once more. Under normal circumstances, it would take months for it to be 
voted on, but they could be fast-tracked. *[PFLI Note: this act is also 
being introduced at the state level, as was done so this past year in 
the Ohio Assembly, /inter alia/].*

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*/What does Planned Parenthood say about the Prevention First Act?/***//*

Here is the statement by Cecile Richards, president of Planned 
Parenthood, on February 5, 2007, when the Prevention First Act was 
introduced in the House:

"Today's introduction of the Prevention First Act signals a real step 
forward for health care in America. Currently, more than 17 million 
women in the U.S. need publicly funded family planning services, and 
there is not enough funding to meet the need. Nearly 750,000 teenagers 
in the U.S. will become pregnant this year. Prevention is the key to 
building strong, healthy families, and the Prevention First Act will 
help women and couples plan their families, plan their futures, and plan 
parenthood by expanding access to critically needed family planning 
education and reproductive health care services."

**/Planned Parenthood also pushing PFA in states/***/

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Planned Parenthood has mentioned its intent to push PFA not only at the 
federal level, but also at the state level. A typical state bill seeks 
to do the following:

. Force insurance companies to cover birth control if they cover other 
prescriptions;

. Mandate that every hospital in the state provide emergency 
contraception to rape victims and tell the victims that emergency 
contraception does not cause an abortion;

. Replace abstinence-only sex ed with programs that give equal time to 
the use of birth control and don't tell children to save sex for marriage;

. Put taxpayer money into "teen pregnancy prevention" programs;

. Do away with the right of pharmacies and/or pharmacists to refuse to 
sell products that conflict with their religious beliefs.

**/What can you do?/*//*

Despite the fact that Obama is actively supporting this horrible bill 
and the Democratic Party is firmly in control of the both chambers of 
the United States Congress, passage of this bill is not inevitable. We 
have spoken with a number of pro-life members of Congress and their 
staffs, and they believe that the Prevention First Act can be stopped. 
But, in order to do so, it will take an active campaign of pro-lifers 
across the country. Here is what you can do:

1. Contact your members of Congress and let them know how you feel about 
the Prevention First Act 
<http://www.congress.org/congressorg/directory/congdir.tt>.

2. Watch for updates in future ALL publications. We will let you know as 
soon as the bills are introduced in the next Congress and give you the 
correct bill numbers.

3. Monitor the activity in your state and take action to prevent a state 
PFA from passing.

Because the Prevention First Act aims to both increase funding to Title 
X and to make the Title X program permanent, and because Title X is the 
second largest source of government funding for Planned Parenthood, 
we'll begin a series on Title X itself in next week's ALL Associate 
Newsletter.

--from ALL Associate Newsletter, 12/1/08
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*Barrie Hussein Obama: Don't Miss Next Week's /Chicago Tribune/  *
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  *http://www.wethepeoplefoundation.org:80/UPDATE/Update2008-11-28.htm*
  <http://www.wethepeoplefoundation.org/UPDATE/Update2008-11-28.htm>

  *Nov. 28, 2008*

*Full-Page Citizenship Challenge To Run Twice,  December 1st /and/ 3rd*

*DC National Press Club Event: Dec 8th*
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Our full-page Open Letter to Mr. Obama will be published in the /Chicago 
Tribune/ on both Monday, December 1, 2008 /_and_/ Wednesday, December 3, 
2008. It will appear in the main news section.

_/Click here/ 
<http://www.wethepeoplefoundation.org/UPDATE/misc2008/ChicagoTribune-ObamaLtr-Nov-2008.pdf>_/ 
to view a copy of the final ad// /

Chicago is Mr. Obama's hometown. His transition team is operating out of 
the Kluczynski Federal Building in downtown Chicago. He is known to be a 
regular reader of the /Tribune/, Chicago's principal newspaper, with a 
daily circulation of over a half-million readers. 

The Open Letter to Mr. Obama is a formal Petition for a Redress (Remedy) 
for the alleged violation of the "natural born citizen" clause of the 
Constitution of the United States of America.

Mr. Obama is respectfully requested to direct the Hawaiian officials to 
provide access to his *original* birth certificate on December 5-7 by 
our team of forensic scientists, and to provide additional documentary 
evidence establishing his citizenship status prior to our Washington, 
D.C. press conference on December 8. 

A First Amendment Petition to any official of the Government for Redress 
of a violation of the Constitution is substantially different from the 
garden-variety political petitions frequently received by government 
officials. This Petition demands it be given the highest priority for an 
expedited review and official Response by Mr. Obama. 

As a formal "Notice of a Constitutional Violation," the Petition 
naturally includes the People's inherent Right to an official Response.

As a time-sensitive, election related Petition involving the Office of 
the President, failure to Respond as requested would constitute an 
egregious breach of the public trust and confirm the certainty of a 
Constitutional crisis.

For the D.C. press conference the WTP Foundation has reserved the Edward 
R. Murrow Room at the National Press Club from 1-4 pm on Monday, 
December 8, 2008.

We are hopeful that C-SPAN may cover what could be a pivotal, historic 
event.

The Petition for Redress/Open Letter to Mr. Obama is also expected to 
have a significant impact on the deliberations of the Electoral College 
as it proceeds toward selection of the U.S. President as provided for by 
the Constitution.

Many, many thanks to the many individuals who donated the money needed 
to cover the costs of publishing the Open Letter and conducting the 
Washington press conference.

We are now in the process of selecting the forensic scientists who would 
travel to Hawaii to examine Mr. Obama's original birth certificate 
(assuming he responds to the Petition for Redress by directing the 
Hawaiian officials to provide access to the birth certificate).

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