Luetkemeyer Calls On Pelosi To Support Ban On Abortion In Health Care Bill

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In an effort to preserve pro-life provisions in any final health care legislation, U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer, along with many of his House colleagues, sent a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi asking that those provisions be preserved if a final health care bill emerges from negotiations between the House and Senate.

Despite his opposition to the Pelosi health care bill that narrowly cleared the House on November 7, Luetkemeyer supported the bi-partisan Stupak/Pitts Amendment that maintains the current policy of preventing federal funding for abortion and for health benefit packages that include abortion.

The amendment passed 240-to-194. Luetkemeyer hopes that the pro-life language will survive a conference between House and Senate members because of the broad bi-partisan support for it both in Congress and among the American people.

"Government funding of abortions is a clear violation of many Americans' deeply held beliefs, and Americans should not be forced to compromise their core moral beliefs as a means to health care reform," Luetkemeyer and 39 other House members said in a letter to Speaker Pelosi. "Therefore, we respectfully insist that you see that the exact language of the Stupak/Pitts Amendment is retained in any final version of health care reform legislation that emerges from a House-Senate conference committee."

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