Merry Christmas from Kansans for Life

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Abortion divide stalling Health care reforms

Yesterday’s respected Quinnipac poll shows 72% of Americans don’t want abortion funded in health care– but that will happen in the Senate health care bill President Obama supports.

Politico reports today that White House officials are conceding the abortion divide could keep any health care bill from moving forward until after Obama’s State of the Union address in late January.

Any delay in achieving health reform is unwelcome by Obama, whose popularity continues to plummet.  Today’s Rassmussen poll shows 55% of likely voters now disapprove of his performance, 44% strongly so.

Kansas U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback says, in an opinion piece yesterday, that

“ the abortion funding divide is now the central debate in reconciling the differences between

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It’s all about the shame–what Sebelius calls “privacy rights”

As the White House pressured pro-life Rep. Bart Stupak to be silent about his opposition to the new Senate health bill abortion language, HHS head Sebelius was giving an interview on the White House website, assuring the  “BlogHerSphere” that women would not have to take out separate, and embarrassing, additional insurance riders to cover abortion.

Both House and Senate bills are creating government management of health insurance “‘exchanges,” but only the “Stupak-amended” House version really prevents

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Hope focused on Stupak & pro-life Democrats

Pro-lifers are grasping for any ray of hope after Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson’s abortion sellout this weekend—in which he “blessed” a worthless abortion proposal in order to advance a health bill to a vote by Christmas Eve.

However, Rep. Bart Stupak, who sponsored an authentic ban on abortion funding which became part of the House health reform bill, says, unlike Nelson, he will “hold firm.”
UPDATE, Dec. 24: Stupak insists he cannot be bought off with legislative favors.

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Explained: Anti-life dangers of Reid’s “Manager’s Amendment”

The anti-life provisions of  Senate Majority Leader Reid’s “Manager’s Amendment” to the Senate Health Care Reform bill that passed it’s first hurdle late last night (and why it was so tragic that Sen. Nelson caved in) is explained in the National Right to Life Committee’s letter to the U.S. Senate here. Related Life News story here.

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Gov. Huckabee’s speech in Omaha Sunday

The AP reported 1,800 attended an “Emergency Rally” in Omaha Sunday, to protest health care reforms.  Kansans for Life joined to protest the betrayal of Sen. Ben Nelson in agreeing to a federal abortion-funding scheme.  Click here and  scroll down to second photo of Huckabee to view video of his speech.  See also story from KansasWatchdog.

http://kansas.watchdog.org/2009/12/20/kansans-join-nebraska-rally-in-omaha-to-encourage-sen-ben-nelson-to-oppose-health-care-bill/

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Doctor: More will die sooner under Senate health bill

Oklahoma U.S. Senator, and physician, Tom Coburn is warning about the disasters lurking in the senate health proposals.

Because MEDICAID already underpays doctors, he says, the expansion of those eligible for Medicaid (ushered in by the new Reid-Nelson agreement) will further backlog those already waiting to see the limited number of doctors (in Kansas, more than 15,000 patients). Maryland auditors say their backlog of 17,000 resulted in 250 patient deaths.  Coburn also warns:

“Seniors will die sooner if Congress actually implements the MEDICARE cuts in the health-care bill …rationing provisions

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Free bus rides Sunday to Omaha to protest Sen. Nelson

Our previous post described the Sen. Ben Nelson pro-life betrayal. Join Mike Huckabee for an emergency rally in Omaha,  Sunday Dec. 20– FREE bus rides leave Topeka & Kansas City at 10am ,

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Sen. Nelson abortion-accounting scheme betrays pro-lifers, irritates abortion lobby

U.S. Sen. Ben Nelson

Desperation (to get 60 Democrat votes to pass the Senate health bill by Christmas) spawned atrocious abortion language approved late Friday night by self-described-pro-life-holdout Sen. Ben Nelson    But neither pro-lifers or abortion supporters are happy– only Democrat politicians wanting to hand Obama a victory.

Julie Schmit-Albin, Executive Director of our sister affiliate, Nebraska Right to Life, has issued a press release bemoaning the collaboration of their endorsed Senator with hard-core abortion supporters:

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Whazzup with federal Health Care monstrosity?

The Senate health care proposal, already termed a historic monstrosity by U.S. Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell, just grew another head with an 11th-hour “abortion compromise” crafted by Democrat pro-abortion leaders to appease Sen. Ben Nelson.

The House had already passed its health bill with the Stupak-Pitts amendment prohibiting federally funded abortion, but the Senate failed to add the equivalent pro-life Nelson-Hatch amendment.

National Right to Life scores the existing Senate language as NOT solving the fundamental abortion-related problems that Stupak does, and as inventing more problems because it will

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