[Pflienews] PharmFacts E-News Update: Plan B One Step generic gets FDA OK; Senate panel moves to permanently kill Mexico City Policy; more...
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*Senate Committee Votes to Permanently Kill Mexico City Policy*
By Kathleen Gilbert
WASHINGTON, D.C., July 13, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com
<http://www.lifesitenews.com/>) - The Senate Appropriations Committee
voted Thursday to codify President Obama's overthrow of the Mexico City
Policy by approving an amendment to open U.S. funding for
abortion-promoting non-governmental organizations (NGOs) worldwide.
The abortion amendment was offered by Senator Lautenberg (D-NJ) to the
State and Foreign Operations Appropriations bill (S.1434) and was
co-sponsored by Senators Leahy (D-VT), Mikulski (D-MD), Murray (D-WA),
and Collins (R-ME). The committee favored the amendment 17-11, allowing
it to be considered by the Senate.
Instituted by Ronald Reagan in 1984, the Mexico City Policy bans
taxpayer dollars from funding international groups that perform or
promote abortions. The policy has gone in and out of use depending on
the political party in the White House: Bill Clinton immediately
rescinded the policy by executive order, and George W. Bush reinstated
it before President Obama overturned it once more. However, the new
amendment would codify President Obama's executive order and prevent
future pro-life presidents from reviving the policy by executive order.
Lautenberg's amendment states that overseas organizations "shall not be
ineligible for such assistance solely onthe basis of health or medical
services, including counseling and referral services ... if such
services are permitted in the country in which they are being provided."
International abortion NGOs such as Planned Parenthood and Marie Stopes,
who are now eligible for U.S. funds, constitute perhaps the primary
force behind the spread of abortion worldwide by both providing abortion
and aggressively lobbying pro-life nations to dismantle legal protection
for the unborn.
The bill assigns $628.5 million for international family planning
without the protections of the Mexico City policy, $50 million of which
will fund the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). Though the UNFPA
claims it resists coercive population control policies,
recent investigations
<http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/jul/09070709.html> have confirmed
earlier proof pointing to the UNFPA's complicity in China's one-child
policy tactics including forced abortion and sterilization.
In the House version of the bill Wednesday, pro-life legislators also
met with defeat, after the Democrat-controlled Rules Committee rejected
an amendment that would have explicitly restored the Mexico City Policy.
The rescinding of the Mexico City Policy was the least popular among the
surveyed early actions of President Obama. While approval ratings for
his other actions hovered around 75%, only 35% approved of Obama's
decision to provide U.S. foreign aid for abortion groups.
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*86% of Americans Would Significantly Restrict Abortion: New Poll
*86% favor significant restrictions; Majority believes abortion hurts a
woman long-term
NEW HAVEN, July 10, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com
<http://www.lifesitenews.com/>) - The American people continue to move
to the pro-life perspective on abortion according to the latest Moral
Compass polling by the Knights of Columbus and Marist Institute.
The poll mirrored findings of other recent surveys, showing that more
Americans identify as pro-life than as pro-choice (an 11% shift from
October), and that the vast majority of Americans favor restricting
abortion.
Among the key findings:
- 86% of Americans would significantly restrict abortion.
- 60% of Americans would limit abortion to cases of rape, incest or the
life of a mother -- or not allow it at all.
- 53% of Americans believe abortion does more harm than good to a woman
in the long term.
- 79% of Americans support conscience exemptions on abortion for health
care workers. This includes 64% of those who identify as strongly
pro-choice.
- 69% of Americans think that it is appropriate for religious leaders to
speak out on abortion.
- 59% say religious leaders have a key role to play in the abortion debate.
Additionally, the data showed that nearly every demographic sub-group
had moved toward the pro- life position except for non-practicing
Catholics and men under 45 years of age.
Independents and liberals showed the greatest shift to the pro-life
position since October, while Democrats were slightly less likely to be
pro-life now than they were in October.
"The data shows that the American people are placing an ever increasing
value on human life," said Supreme Knight Carl Anderson. "Far from the
great divide that most people think exists when it comes to the abortion
debate, there is actually a great deal of common ground.
"Most Americans are unhappy with the unrestricted access to abortion
that is the legacy of Roe vs. Wade, and pundits and elected leaders
should take note of the fact that agreement on abortion need not be
limited to the fringes of the debate and issues like adoption or
pre-natal care. The American people have reached a basic consensus, and
that consensus is at odds with the legacy of Roe."
The survey of 1,223 Americans was conducted May 28 - 31 and has a margin
of error of +/-3%.
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*Obama Healthcare Reform Bound to Include "Largest Expansion of Abortion
Since Roe v. Wade": NRLC, Chris Smith*
NRLC's Johnson said the bills as they stand "have kind of a built-in
Freedom of Choice Act."
By Kathleen Gilbert
WASHINGTON, D.C., July 13, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com
<http://www.lifesitenews.com/>) - Unless legislators take steps to make
Obama's healthcare reform package explicitly exclude abortion from
"healthcare," the new government-sponsored health plan will undoubtedly
provide for a vast expansion of abortion, the National Right to Life
Committee (NRLC) and Congressman Chris Smith are warning. A senate
committee today rejected amendments proposed by the NRLC to explicitly
exclude abortion from the healthcare package, leaving intact the fears
of pro-life legislators that the reform package will unfetter U.S.
abortions in a way similar to the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA).
The trouble lies in the unqualified 'essential benefits package' the
bill will promote: experts say legal precedent in America is clear that
such a broad term can be used to include abortion. And because public
and private plans will be required to meet the minimum benefit mandate,
say pro-lifers, the draft bill will eventually require virtually every
American to pay into a plan that covers abortion, as well as a vast
expansion of the availability of abortion.
"The two central 'health care reform' bills currently moving in Congress
- the Kennedy bill and the House Democratic leadership bill - each
contain provisions that would, if enacted, represent the greatest
expansion of abortion since the Supreme Court handed down its Roe v.
Wade ruling legalizing abortion in 1973," said NRLC Federal Legislation
Director Douglas Johnson in a press release Friday.
"These bills contain multiple provisions that would result in federally
mandated insurance coverage of abortion on demand, massive federal
subsidies for abortion, mandated creation of many new abortion clinics,
and nullification of at least some state limitations on abortion."
Johnson explained to LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) today that the bulldozing of
pro-life protections flows from what he calls the "abortion mandate"
embedded in the bill.
"We know from a great deal of experience and many court decisions that
[an 'essential benefits package'] will include elective abortion unless
Congress explicitly says otherwise," said Johnson.
"Once abortion is defined - as it would be - an 'essential benefit,'
then other things flow from that," he continued. "The law requires that
every health network show that it has adequate access to these mandated
services. ... So you would have federal bureaucracy refusing to certify
health plans unless they show they have local access to abortion. There
would have to be the establishment of many more abortion providers
across the country to meet this mandate."
Even that, said Johnson, would not change America's abortion landscape
enough to fit the scope of the bill.
Asked whether he foresaw the elimination of state abortion regulations
such as waiting periods under the reform package, Johnson replied, "that
would certainly be targeted as an obstacle to what's now under this bill
... a federally guaranteed service. It's in conflict with the purpose
of the federal law."
Asked about the bill's similarity in effect to FOCA - legislation that
would make abortion a "right" not subject to any government regulation -
Johnson said the bills as they stand "have kind of a built-in Freedom of
Choice Act."
"There may still be some particular situations or laws that touch on
abortion outside the context of healthcare delivery so that I don't say
they exactly duplicate each other," he said, "but the major purpose of
the FOCA to strike down [abortion regulations such as] the parental
notification, the waiting period - these kind of things would be, quite
likely, nullified under this healthcare legislation.
"But the general principle is quite clear in the bill: that once the
feds have said this is a service you have a right to, no state could
stand in the way of it."
Johnson said the bills as they stand "have kind of a built-in Freedom of
Choice Act." said that amendments the NRLC proposed to fight the
implicit abortion expansion were rejected by the Senate Health,
Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee this afternoon.
On Thursday Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), co-chairman of the House Pro-Life
Caucus, issued a letter to members of Congress containing a selection of
quotes from the pro-abortion lobby discussing healthcare reform as a
tool for the expansion of abortion in America.
One quote from Obama himself, prior to his election, described
"reproductive care" including abortion as the "heart" of his idea of
healthcare reform.
"Well, look, in my mind reproductive care is essential care, basic care
so it is at the center, the heart of the plan that I propose," Obama
told a Planned Parenthood Action Fund Event in July 2007 during a Q&A
session.
Obama also indicated that he expected all insurers to be forced to cover
abortion, saying: "Insurers are going to have to abide by the same rules
in terms of providing comprehensive care, including reproductive care
... that's going to be absolutely vital."
Smith also reprinted quotes from the National Abortion Federation, the
Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, NARAL, Planned Parenthood,
and RH Reality Check similarly supporting the healthcare package as
including "reproductive health."
"If the proposed plan moves forward without an explicit exclusion that
ensures that abortion is excluded from any government mandated or
government subsidized benefits, health care reform will be a death
sentence for thousands of unborn children," wrote Smith.
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