Abortion

Celebration over the Stupak amendment in the House health care bill was cut short this week as pro-life supporters fear the language could be removed.

Abortion rights supporters, including House lawmakers, have threatened to pull their support from the health care bill if language such as the Stupak amendment remains in the final version.

The Stupak amendment, introduced by Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.), bars the use of federal funding for “any health plan [public or private] that includes coverage of abortion,” except in the cases of rape, incest or to save the woman’s life. more >>

Thousands of students at the world’s largest evangelical university on Wednesday kicked off a week filled with high-profile speakers, including “Jane Roe” of Roe v. Wade, to celebrate pro-life week.

The Pro-Life Conference, sponsored by Liberty University Student Government Association, began Wednesday morning with an address by Mathew Staver, dean of Liberty University School of Law, to more than 10,000 people in Lynchburg, Va.

Staver will also hold a lecture with a question and answer session on abortion and the courts later in the afternoon in the Supreme Courtroom at the School of Law. The school has the nation’s only replica of the U.S. Supreme Court’s nine-member bench. more >>

The nation’s largest faith-based association of physicians strongly criticized the new 2,000-page House health care bill as an “overdose” in reform that injects massive government intervention in the system.

“With this massive legislation, we are getting much more than is actually needed to fix our health care system,” stated Dr. David Stevens, CEO of the 16,000-member Christian Medical Association.

He said the House bill would “totally transform” the health care system into a government-run system that “dictates” what treatment patients would receive when a better solution is to target reform in areas that need to be fixed. more >>

Organizers of a national pro-life campaign that concluded this past weekend say "the abortion industry is starting to squirm."

After 40 days of prayer outside abortion clinics throughout the country, 534 babies have so far been reportedly saved from abortion and eight employees have left the industry.

"Together we have witnessed God accomplishing amazing miracles through His faithful people, and I really believe that we are witnessing the beginning of the end of abortion in our land," said David Bereit, national director of the annual 40 Days for Life campaign. more >>

Christian conservatives were quick to oppose the new House health care bill, which they say includes federal funds for elective abortion and mandates providing information about physician-assisted suicide in some states.

"Speaker Pelosi might as well rename her bill the 'Government Funded Abortions for America Act,'” Family Research Council President Tony Perkins said as he lambasted the new proposal.

The 1,990-page health care bill, unveiled Thursday, removes the Hyde Amendment, which bans federal funding for abortion except in the cases of rape, incest, or danger to the physical health of the mother. more >>