On Tuesday, April 12, and Wednesday, April 13, 2011, the U.S. House of Representatives will conduct votes on a major pro-life bill -- the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act (H.R. 3).
National Right to Life urges you to promptly telephone the office of your representative in the U.S. House, to urge him or her to vote against all amendments to H.R. 3, and to vote in favor of passing the bill.
Currently, there is a patchwork of different federal laws that restrict federal funding of abortion. However, many of these restrictions (such as the well-known Hyde Amendment, which applies to the federal Medicaid program) expire every year -- which forces the pro-life side to re-fight the same battles in Congress, year after year. Moreover, in a number of federal programs -- including some major new programs created by the massive Obama health care law in 2010 -- federal subsidies for abortion are currently permissible under law.
H.R. 3 would replace this leaky patchwork with a permanent prohibition on federal funding of abortion and federal subsidies for health plans that cover abortion. This new ban would apply across the entire federal government, to both long-existing programs and new programs created by the Obama health care law.
The No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act is sponsored by Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Congressman Dan Lipinski (D-Il.), the co-chairs of the House Pro-Life Caucus. To see an always-current list of co-sponsors of the bill, click here.
Please call your U.S. House member today! (Preferably, during business hours.) In this alert, use the box that says "Call Now" or "Take Action Now." Enter your zip code, and you will be shown the best phone number to call, along with a few suggested "talking points" that you can use, if you wish, when you speak with staff person in the representative's office. In addition, you have the option to send a short "feedback" e-mail to National Right to Life to report on what the lawmaker's staff said regarding how he or she intends to vote.
Please act today, and urge your like-minded friends to do the same! Thank you. Click here to take action now.