Dear Friend,

Tonight, the Senate defeated the prolife Nelson-Hatch-Casey amendment, which mirrored the Stupak-Pitts language, prohibiting federal funds from being spent on destroying innocent life.

This crushing blow to the majority of Americans opposed to federal funding of abortion occurred after Senator Barbara Boxer of California motioned to table the amendment, a procedural move that spells defeat.

The Senate has spoken. They effectively endorsed the abortion lobby’s goal of mainstreaming abortion as health care and paying for abortion with our tax dollars!

Well over 1,000,000 innocent lives are ended by abortions each year, and now the U.S. Senate has chosen to move forward with a health care bill that will allow our federal tax dollars to fund even more abortions.

How can this be?

This morning, in a letter sent to Cecile Richards - the President of Planned Parenthood - and published in The Hill newspaper, I challenged Cecile to tell the American public how much money they will gain from the health care bill’s expansion of abortion.

Planned Parenthood is a billion dollar industry but according to a recent Harvard case study, their business is struggling financially. The abortion industry is the beneficiary of today’s vote. This is an abortion business bailout bill.

HOW TO TAKE ACTION!

I ask you to stand with Americans United for Life Action, on the merits of our belief that all human life is a sacred gift, endowed by our creator. This is NOT health care! Real health care protects life!

What now?

Next step:

Please contact your Senator TODAY to vote NO on cloture in order to end debate and kill this bill. We now have no choice but to work vigorously to defeat this bill.

Organize your friends and family to melt down your Senator’s phone lines by calling (202) 224-3121 and e-mail with messages of NO to this pro-abortion bill!

Thank you for standing with us and defending life!

For Life,
Charmaine Yoest, Ph.D.
President & CEO

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