“We are working around the clock to stop this pro-abortion health care plan in its tracks. The Americans United for Life Action team is organizing a Team Life mobilization of grassroots activists across the country, engaging Congressional leaders and staff, and providing every possible support to pro-life Democrats as they fight for Life in the face of tremendous pressure.”

– Dr. Charmaine Yoest, President and CEO of AUL Action

AUL Action’s “Real Health Care Respects Life” campaign is working to put pressure on Congress to oppose taxpayer-funded abortion in health care:

• Launching Support Stupak – a new Facebook campaign encouraging pro-life Democrats.
• Making thousands of calls to citizens in 38 targeted Congressional districts.
• Preparing to deploy a print and online ad campaign in targeted Congressional districts.
• Releasing a call to action video from Dr. Charmaine Yoest.
• Sending grassroots emails to urge activists to contact Congress – nearly one million emails since the President released his health care proposal.
• Working aggressively on Capitol Hill, meeting with Members and Congressional staff.
• Using social media (Twitter, Facebook and YouTube) to galvanize opposition.
• Placing opinion pieces, like this Wall Street Journal Op-ed.
• Pushing out fast facts on the AUL Action blog, including this post.
• Engaging policy experts using our senior legal team to clear up misinformation.

If you’re on Twitter, you can win an AUL gift pack consisting of a baseball cap, a reusable tote bag, and a copy of Defending Life 2010.

All you need to do is follow @AULaction and @AUL on Twitter and then retweet our original message or copy and paste the text below in your own tweet:

Win an AUL gift pack – follow @AUL & @AULaction then RT this post before 12pm EST on Wed.

We will pick a winner sometime after noon Wednesday. You must be following us and have tweeted some form of the message above to win.

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For more information, go to AULaction.org. You can also click here to contact your Senators and Member of Congress and tell them you oppose taxpayer-funded abortion in health care reform.

UPDATE: Be sure to read today’s op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal by Dr. Charmaine Yoest. Remember, you must click here to let Congress know you oppose taxpayer-funded abortion. Leaving a comment below directed to Congress will not get the message to them. We do thank everyone for their insightful comments thus far.

Background information:

Six Questions to Ask President Obama at the Health Care Summit

Why the Obama Plan Changes the Status Quo on Abortion

President Obama’s “New” Health Care Reform Proposal

Abortion Tax and other Problems in President’s Proposal (Same as the Senate Health Care Reform Bill)

Statement of Dr. Charmaine Yoest

“This announcement marks the President’s latest attempt to mislead the public on abortion. Last September, he promised taxpayers that no public funds would go to pay for abortion. He has since pushed strongly for the pro-abortion Senate health care bill, released his own health care proposal, and announced today’s revised proposal – all three plans are a radical move to establish taxpayer-funded abortion. In the confusion of the health care debate, one thing is clear – the President is firmly committed to advancing taxpayer-funded abortion while continuing to claim otherwise.”

This is an initial post of something we are working on doing on a regularly basis. We will be blogging these links and also possibly emailing them to readers who sign up later.

All links are posted for information purposes only. A link does not indicate any endorsement by AUL Action.

72% OF VOTERS HAD THEIR VIEWS IGNORED TODAY ON
HEALTH CARE’S DECIDING, BI-PARTISAN ISSUE

Dr. Charmaine Yoest’s Reaction to White House Health Care Summit

“The President’s proposal was a pro-abortion health care plan before today’s meeting and after six hours of political posturing, it’s still a pro-abortion health care plan.

Federal funding for abortion has become the deciding issue in this debate, and yet the issue was raised only briefly today.
Remarkably when Minority Leader Boehner highlighted the abortion funding in the bill, the President did not respond.

This has been his approach to the abortion issue throughout this debate: to evade the question or misrepresent the facts to the American people. Among other anti-life provisions, the President’s plan creates a first-ever ‘abortion tax’ to be paid by individuals participating in the health Exchange. The plan also includes $11 billion dollars of new funding for community health centers, some of which are abortion providers. And yet Speaker Nancy Pelosi today claimed falsely that ‘there is no public funding of abortions in this bill.’

Convening this summit, and broadcasting it on television, does not create truth in advertising. Six hours of contrived dialogue did not change the fact that this elaborate production of political theater was designed to hide the President’s true position on abortion in health care.

There is a very simple reason for this: Abortion is the bill killer.

72% of voters oppose federal funding of abortion. As they work to try to pass the greatest expansion of abortion since Roe v. Wade, President Obama, Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Reid will discover that their alliance with the abortion lobby alienates them from the mainstream of American opinion on this issue.”

More information:
Six Questions to Ask President Obama at the Health Care Summit

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Speaker Pelosi: “I think it’s really important to note, though, and i want the record to show, because two statements were made here that were not factual in relationship to these bills. my colleague, Leader Boehner, the law of the land is there is no public funding of abortion and there is no public funding of abortion in these bills and I don’t want our listeners or viewers to get the wrong impression from what you said.”

Pelosi was responding to comments made earlier by Rep. John Boehner (video is here.)

More on how the President’s plan changes the current law regarding public funding of abortion can be found here.

Boehner’s remarks

“Let me just make one other point. For 30 years, we’ve had a federal law that says that we’re not going to have taxpayer funding of abortions. We have had this debate in the House. It was a very serious debate. But in the House, the House spoke. The House upheld the language we have had in law for 30 years that there will be no taxpayer funding of abortions. This bill that we have before us, and there was no reference to the issue in your outline, Mr. President, begins for the first time in 30 years allows the taxpayer funding of abortion.”

Update: Later in the afternoon, Speaker Nancy Pelosi took issue with Boehner’s remarks. She said, “I don’t want our listeners or viewers to get the wrong impression” when it comes to abortion funding. “Mr. Boehner, the law of the land is that there is no public funding of abortions and there is no public funding of abortions in this bill,” Pelosi says.