ERLC ALERT: CONTACTS NEEDED IMMEDIATELY!
Abortion-Reporting Bill Vetoed by Governor; Please ask Legislators to Override Veto
Governor Brad Henry vetoed HB 3284, on May 22, which provides for reporting of abortions and abortion complications to the Health Department. With thousands of unborn children being killed across Oklahoma on a daily basis, requiring the abortion industry to report abortions performed is a very small thing to ask.
Please contact your state legislators immediately and urge support for this vital pro-life bill. You can identify your senator and representative by going to our website, www.bgco.org/erlc, click on the Locate Legislator link, type in your address and scroll down to your state legislators.
CONTACT THEM NOW!
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Monday, May 24, 2010
Monday, April 26, 2010
Veto-Override Attempt Soon - Contacts Needed Immediately!
Governor Vetoes Pro-Life Bills; Veto-Override Attempt Soon
Contacts Needed Now! Please Contact Pro-Life Democrats Now!
Contacts Needed Now! Please Contact Pro-Life Democrats Now!
Governor Brad Henry vetoed two crucial pro-life bills on Fiday; HB 2780, Ultrasound bill; and HB 2656, Wrongful-life bill.
Please send two emails now (email addresses below) urging legislators to vote to override the Governor's vetoes of these two critical pro-life bills and thank them for thier continued support of these two life saving bills! Sending these two emails will enable you to reach all of the Senate and House Democrats who supported these bills.
1. prolifehouse@okforlife.org (will reach all the pro-life Democrats in the House of Representatives)
2. prolifesenate@okforlife.org (will reach all the pro-life Democrats in the State Senate)
Democrats who have stood strong in the fight for the unborn will be under an increased amount of pressrue to flip-flop their votes to uphold the Governor's vetoes in the name of party loyalty. They must hear from us now!
Bills that were vetoed:
HB 2780, Ultrasound Bill, provides a woman an ultrasound of her unborn child which she may view prior to undergoing an abortion.
HB 2656, Wrongful-life Bill, fostering respect for babies with disabilities by disallowing wrongful-life lawsuits that claim a baby would have been better off being aborted.
Thank you for your support!
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
ERLC ALERT! House to Vote on Two Critical Pro-Life Bills
Senate to Vote on Two Critically Important Pro-life Bills Soon!
CONTACT YOUR SENATOR IMMEDIATELY FOR SUPPORT!
HB 2780 (Rep. Lisa Billy), Ultrasound Bill, provides a woman an ultrasound of her unborn child which she may view prior to undergoing an abortion.
HB 3284 (Rep. Pam Peterson), Abortion Reporting Bill, provides the reporting of abortions performed in Oklahoma, the reasons abortions are sought, and the complications that result.
Please contact your state senator and urge support for these vital pro-life bills immediately. You can identify your senator by going to our website, www.bgco.org/erlc, click on the Legislator Locator link, type in your address and then scroll down to your state representative.
CONTACT YOUR SENATOR IMMEDIATELY FOR SUPPORT!
HB 2780 (Rep. Lisa Billy), Ultrasound Bill, provides a woman an ultrasound of her unborn child which she may view prior to undergoing an abortion.
HB 3284 (Rep. Pam Peterson), Abortion Reporting Bill, provides the reporting of abortions performed in Oklahoma, the reasons abortions are sought, and the complications that result.
Please contact your state senator and urge support for these vital pro-life bills immediately. You can identify your senator by going to our website, www.bgco.org/erlc, click on the Legislator Locator link, type in your address and then scroll down to your state representative.
Monday, March 8, 2010
Senate to Vote on Three Critical Pro-Life Bills This Week!
ERLC ALERT! Senate to Vote on Three Critical Pro-Life Bills This Week
Three critically important pro-life bills will be voted on by the Oklahoma Senate this week.
SB 1902 (Sen. Clark Jolley and Rep. Skye McNiel), regulating the use of the dangerous chemical abortion pill RU-486, which kills an unborn child who is about two months old;
SB1890 (Sen. Todd Lamb and Rep. Dan Sullivan), prohibiting abortions that are done for the purpose of sex-selection;
SB 1891 (Sen. Anthony Sykes and Rep. Pam Peterson), protecting health care professionals' freedom of conscience by affirming their right to refuse to participate in the taking of a human life.
Please contact your state senator and urge support for these vital pro-life bills immediately. You can identify your senator by going to our website, www.bgco/erlc, click on the Legislator Locator link, type in your address and then scroll down to your state senator.
Monday, February 22, 2010
ERLC Alert: Two Critical Pro-Life Bills Voted on Monday
ERLC Alert: Two Critical Pro-Life Bills Voted on TODAY!!!
Two critical pro-life bills will be voted on by the Oklahoma House Judiciary Committee Monday afternoon. The bills to be voted on Monday afternoon are the following:
HB 3284 (Rep. Pam Peterson), reporting abortions performed in Oklahoma, the reasons abortions are sought, and the complications that result; and
HB 2780 (Rep. Lisa Billy), providing a woman an ultrasound of her unborn child which she may view prior to undergoing an abortion.
HB 3284 (Rep. Pam Peterson), reporting abortions performed in Oklahoma, the reasons abortions are sought, and the complications that result; and
HB 2780 (Rep. Lisa Billy), providing a woman an ultrasound of her unborn child which she may view prior to undergoing an abortion.
Please immediately contact these committee members to thank them for their past pro-life votes and ask their strong support for these pro-life bills:
Representative Rex Duncan
Representative Fred Jordan
Representative Marian Cooksey
Representative Scott Inman
Representative Lucky Lamons
Representative Mark McCullough
Representative Richard Morrissette
Representative Jason Nelson
Representative Dan Sullivan
Representative Randy Terrill
They may be reached by email at:
rexduncan@okhouse.gov; fred.jordan@okhouse.gov; mariancooksey@okhouse.gov; scott.inman@okhouse.gov; luckylamons@okhouse.gov; mark.mccullough@okhouse.gov; richardmorrissette@okhouse.gov; jason.nelson@okhouse.gov; danielsullivan@okhouse.gov; randyterrill@okhouse.gov
Please also contact your own state representative and urge support for these pro-life bills when they reach the House floor a few days following passage in Committee. You can identify your representative by going to our website, www.bgco.org/erlc, click on link to find your legislator, type in your address and then scroll down to your state representative.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
The Abortion Mandate
ERLC Alert: The Abortion Mandate! YOUR ACTION IS NEEDED NOW!
Through its actions this week, it has become clear that the Senate intends to mandate that every healthcare plan offered through the government's healthcare gateway provide abortion coverage. Here’s how it will work. The government creates an insurance gateway that people can enter to choose a healthcare plan. The plans the government makes available are all vetted by the government. If a plan doesn’t offer the coverage the government says it should offer, the plan doesn’t make the cut and isn’t available for people to choose from.
Activity in the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee reveals that the Senate leadership intends for every government-approved healthcare plan to provide abortion coverage. The Senate liberals beat back numerous attempts to prevent the inclusion of abortion coverage in government-approved health plans. There is only one reason to reject any attempt to prevent abortion as a covered item in health care—because they expect it to be required. Here are the results of just some of the amendments proposed by some Republicans in the HELP Committee to keep abortion out of the Senate healthcare plan:
Senator Hatch amendment: no federal funds could be used for abortion or for any health plans that include abortion, defeated with 11 yes, 12 no.
Senator Coburn amendment: to allow conscience protection for health care providers who do NOT want to do abortions, defeated with 11 yes, 12 no.
Senator Coburn amendment: to ensure that state abortion laws, like parental consent on abortion laws, are not overruled by the bill, defeated 11 yes, 12 no.
Senator Enzi amendment: to ensure that the bill cannot mandate abortion coverage, defeated with 11 yes, 12 no.
Then there’s Senator Dodd’s sham amendment: to protect those who cannot conscientiously perform abortion, “except in an emergency.” But “emergency” is left undefined and so can mean anything, including a woman who is feeling emotionally distraught, passed with voice vote.
The House bill, “America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009” (H.R. 3200), is at least as dangerous as the Senate bill on many fronts, including abortion mandates. National Right to Life just released their statement, http://www.nrlc.org/AHC/HR3200NRLCfactsheet.pdf, about the abortion mandate it carries. Here is their summary statement:
“The health care restructuring bill pending in the U .S. House…contains provisions that will result in federally mandated coverage of abortion on demand in virtually all of America's health plans. Once abortion is established as a federal "essential benefit," the bill will also require "access" to elective abortion, which will require many issuers to establish and staff new abortion-providing sites. Moreover, state laws that impede "access" to elective abortion (such as waiting periods and parental notification requirements) may be nullified as conflicting with the purposes of the federal law .In addition, the bill will result in the massive subsidization of elective abortion with tax dollars.”
What You Can Do Now
Please take a few minutes to locate legislators by clicking here to send messages to your two U.S. senators (Jim Inhofe and Tom Coburn) and to your representative in the U.S. House of Representatives, to urge them to oppose any federal "health care reform" legislation that does not contain explicit exclusions of abortion. You can modify the suggested message as you see fit. Please contact both your two U.S. senators and representative, give your name and address, and tell their staff that you wish to be recorded as "opposed to Senator Kennedy's health care bill because it would result in mandates for virtually all health plans to cover elective abortion, and would result in federal funding of abortion on demand."
Also, please send short letters to the "letters to the editor" features of your local newspapers, in order to alert your fellow pro-life citizens to the sweeping pro-abortion mandates and pro-abortion subsidies that the Obama White House and the pro-abortion lobby are trying to smuggle into law through "health care reform."
Upcoming Webcast on the Abortion Mandate
The healthcare overhaul is turning out to be more about the radical pro-abortion agenda than making sure everyone has healthcare coverage. This is an issue every pro-life person must engage. A great way to start is to plan to participate in an upcoming webcast on the abortion mandate. The webcast will start at 9 p.m. ET on Thursday, July 23. Numerous family group and pro-life leaders will be on this webcast to talk about their concerns, including Richard Land. You can sign up here, http://www.stoptheabortionmandate.com/.
Through its actions this week, it has become clear that the Senate intends to mandate that every healthcare plan offered through the government's healthcare gateway provide abortion coverage. Here’s how it will work. The government creates an insurance gateway that people can enter to choose a healthcare plan. The plans the government makes available are all vetted by the government. If a plan doesn’t offer the coverage the government says it should offer, the plan doesn’t make the cut and isn’t available for people to choose from.
Activity in the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee reveals that the Senate leadership intends for every government-approved healthcare plan to provide abortion coverage. The Senate liberals beat back numerous attempts to prevent the inclusion of abortion coverage in government-approved health plans. There is only one reason to reject any attempt to prevent abortion as a covered item in health care—because they expect it to be required. Here are the results of just some of the amendments proposed by some Republicans in the HELP Committee to keep abortion out of the Senate healthcare plan:
Senator Hatch amendment: no federal funds could be used for abortion or for any health plans that include abortion, defeated with 11 yes, 12 no.
Senator Coburn amendment: to allow conscience protection for health care providers who do NOT want to do abortions, defeated with 11 yes, 12 no.
Senator Coburn amendment: to ensure that state abortion laws, like parental consent on abortion laws, are not overruled by the bill, defeated 11 yes, 12 no.
Senator Enzi amendment: to ensure that the bill cannot mandate abortion coverage, defeated with 11 yes, 12 no.
Then there’s Senator Dodd’s sham amendment: to protect those who cannot conscientiously perform abortion, “except in an emergency.” But “emergency” is left undefined and so can mean anything, including a woman who is feeling emotionally distraught, passed with voice vote.
The House bill, “America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009” (H.R. 3200), is at least as dangerous as the Senate bill on many fronts, including abortion mandates. National Right to Life just released their statement, http://www.nrlc.org/AHC/HR3200NRLCfactsheet.pdf, about the abortion mandate it carries. Here is their summary statement:
“The health care restructuring bill pending in the U .S. House…contains provisions that will result in federally mandated coverage of abortion on demand in virtually all of America's health plans. Once abortion is established as a federal "essential benefit," the bill will also require "access" to elective abortion, which will require many issuers to establish and staff new abortion-providing sites. Moreover, state laws that impede "access" to elective abortion (such as waiting periods and parental notification requirements) may be nullified as conflicting with the purposes of the federal law .In addition, the bill will result in the massive subsidization of elective abortion with tax dollars.”
What You Can Do Now
Please take a few minutes to locate legislators by clicking here to send messages to your two U.S. senators (Jim Inhofe and Tom Coburn) and to your representative in the U.S. House of Representatives, to urge them to oppose any federal "health care reform" legislation that does not contain explicit exclusions of abortion. You can modify the suggested message as you see fit. Please contact both your two U.S. senators and representative, give your name and address, and tell their staff that you wish to be recorded as "opposed to Senator Kennedy's health care bill because it would result in mandates for virtually all health plans to cover elective abortion, and would result in federal funding of abortion on demand."
Also, please send short letters to the "letters to the editor" features of your local newspapers, in order to alert your fellow pro-life citizens to the sweeping pro-abortion mandates and pro-abortion subsidies that the Obama White House and the pro-abortion lobby are trying to smuggle into law through "health care reform."
Upcoming Webcast on the Abortion Mandate
The healthcare overhaul is turning out to be more about the radical pro-abortion agenda than making sure everyone has healthcare coverage. This is an issue every pro-life person must engage. A great way to start is to plan to participate in an upcoming webcast on the abortion mandate. The webcast will start at 9 p.m. ET on Thursday, July 23. Numerous family group and pro-life leaders will be on this webcast to talk about their concerns, including Richard Land. You can sign up here, http://www.stoptheabortionmandate.com/.
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