USCCB Prolife Chief Draws 'Lines in the Sand' on Healthcare

The Catholic Key Blog reports:

The Executive Director of the USCCB Prolife Office today demands explicit exclusion of abortion from any health care reform proposals. He makes the very good point that Medicaid had funded 300,000 abortions a year at a time when "abortion" was not even mentioned in the Medicaid statute. It took the Hyde Amendment to stop abortion in Medicaid.

Explicit language forbidding abortion coverage in the healthcare bill is required if the USCCB is going to support it.

The USCCB has been the top advocate for healthcare reform for decades, but they are prevented from supporting the current proposals because coastal Congressmen like Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) are more committed to expanding abortion than expanding healthcare.

Now is the time to be calling our representatives to demand a healthcare bill that expands access for the uninsured. That's the goal. Expanding healthcare should not be a vehicle for funding liberal, coastal social experiments in death...

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Knights of Columbus Pass "Fishy" Resolution Opposing Any Health Care Reform That Funds Abortion

New York Archbishop: Church Will Have No Part in "Health Care" That Destroys Life

Congressman Cao: Courage, Conscience, and Catholicism

Associated Press Admits ObamaCare Would Pay for Abortions

"Ardent Practicing" Conservative Catholic Grandmother™ Calls Opponents of ObamaCare Nazis

Deal Hudson: "Why Catholics Will Not Get Abortion Out of the Health Care Bill" [UPDATED]

"Common Ground" on Abortion

Cardinal Rigali "Distracts" from Health Care Debate

"Conservative" Dems Change Vote to Strip Pro-Life Language from ObamaCare Bill

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Congressman Smith Warns Against Phony ‘Compromise’ on Abortion Mandates in ObamaCare

John Boehner: "Taxpayer-Funded Abortion Is Not Health-Care Reform"

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