{"id":3735,"date":"2009-08-11T13:07:58","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T18:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=3735"},"modified":"2009-08-11T13:09:03","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T18:09:03","slug":"senator-david-vitter-lies-again-claims-health-reform-creating-abortion-mandate-that-will-kill-millions-upon-millions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=3735","title":{"rendered":"Senator David Vitter Lies Again: Claims Health Reform Creating “Abortion Mandate” That Will Kill “Millions Upon Millions”"},"content":{"rendered":"

[digg-reddit-me]TownHall.com – who previously had sent this email claiming people needed to act immediately to prevent Obama from killing your grandparents and babies<\/a> just now forwarded a message from Senator David Vitter.<\/p>\n

The complete email from Vitter is below – but his main point is that health care reform is secretly a “new abortion entitlement” claiming that it contains an “abortion mandate” and that “millions upon millions will be killed each year” if the bill passes. Politifact – a nonpartisan fact checking organization hasn’t dealt with Vitter’s lies yet, but they have evaluated a number of similar claims that are circulating<\/a>:<\/p>\n

[W]e checked a claim by Rep. John Boehner that the plan would require Americans to “subsidize abortion with their hard-earned tax dollars.” While there are several versions of the health care plan floating around Congress, and it seems that full abortion coverage would be permitted in the government-sponsored program, we didn’t see anything in them that would put taxpayers on the hook for subsidizing abortions. In fact, we found an amendment in a key version of the House plan that specifically seeks to ensure that federal funds are not used to subsidize abortion coverage.<\/strong> And so we ruled that claim False. [my emphasis]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The White House and Democrats have in fact attempted to make their health care reforms “abortion\u00a0neutral<\/a>” so that the bill would neither encourage nor discourage abortion. If the amendment referenced above does not pass, the health care reform bills would not cover any abortions that would not have been covered by private health insurance.<\/p>\n

In other words, Senator David Vitter, paragon of moral virtue, is lying to pro-lifers in a desperate attempt to block health reform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Dear Townhall Reader,<\/p>\n

Now it\u2019s time to\u00a0turn up the heat<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve spent the last several days talking with fellow pro-life Senators about our strategy to ensure that any new national health care plan does NOT include coverage for abortion on demand.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re all agreed on two main points:<\/p>\n

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  1. This has to be the #1 objective of the pro-life cause right now — if we fail, millions of babies will pay the ultimate price, and;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    1. We have the truth and public opinion on our side, but what’s needed is steady grassroots pressure on key lawmakers nationwide.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      And it needs to begin right now.<\/p>\n

      That<\/span><\/strong>\u2019s why I<\/span><\/strong><\/a>\u2019m asking you to\u00a0click here to\u00a0sign the Susan\u00a0B. Anthony List\u2019s petition to keep abortion out of healthcare.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

      We must ACT to stop the abortion mandate today.<\/strong><\/p>\n

      Because if President Barack Obama and Speaker Nancy Pelosi pass a national health insurance plan that includes full coverage for abortion on demand:<\/p>\n