IFRL Legislative Update - Healthcare Bill, IL Parental Notice

Healthcare Bill Vote Tomorrow, or How about Saturday? Abortion Ploy by U.S. House Democratic Leadership The House Democratic leadership today announced that it will propose a "Rule" on the health care bill, H.R. 3962, that will insert language proposed by Rep. Brad Ellsworth (D-In.), and exclude a House vote on an amendment proposed by Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mi.).  The House is expected to vote on the "rule" late Friday or early Saturday.  Any House member who votes for the Pelosi rule is voting to establish a federal government insurance plan, the public option, that the bill explicitly authorizes to pay for all elective abortions.  When a federal agency pays for abortions, that is federal funding of abortion in reality, whatever contrived labels Speaker Pelosi or her acolytes slap over it.  The Ellsworth language is a political fig leaf made out of cellophane -- it directs the federal Secretary of Health to hire a contractor to deliver to abortion providers the payments for elective abortions, payments that are explicitly authorized by the bill [on page 110].  This is a money-laundering scheme -- a federally funded 'bag man' will deliver government funds to abortionists.  This is federal funding of elective abortion. Click here for more... We're Not Done Yet! Judge Blocks Illinois Abortion Notification Law An Illinois State board voted Wednesday to allow the enforcement of a long-debated Illinois law requiring notification of a teenage girl's parents before she has an abortion. But hours later, a judge issued a temporary restraining order putting the measure back on hold.   The order will remain in effect until the judge can hear arguments on the issue. Cook County Judge Daniel Riley said he felt the American Civil Liberties Union, which sought the restraining order, "demonstrated the distinct possibility of irreparable harm." Click here for more...