Statements are paraphrased.
Stupak: Capps Amendment is the most direct assault on Hyde since 1997.
DeGette: Capps Amendment is a compromise that does not spend $1 federal dollar on abortion. Requirement for supplemental insurance is offensive to women
Pitts: The public does not support federal funding of abortion. Current law prevents fed. dollars from paying for abortion and subsidizing abortion providing plans. A majority opposes funding of abortion on demand.
DeLauro: Stupak Amdt. undermines Capps and is an unprecedented overreach of women’s basic rights and freedoms. It would take away the freedom of conscience and destroy access to abortion. Further, it would discriminate against working women. This is a life or death for women.
Dahlkemper: Stupak Amdt. doesnt change current law. It doesn’t outlaw abortion and it makes hcr consistent with all other federal hc programs.
Capps: Stupak Amdt. strips women of right to choose and does not maintain status quo. Abortion is a legal, medical procedure. Irony that those who claim to oppose gov interference in hc are the same people who are supporting this government regulation of abortion. Capps already does prohibit fed funding.
Pence: I still plan to oppose underlying bill. Ending life is morally wrong; it is wrong to pay for abortion with taxpayer money. Stand for life and vote yes on Stupak.
Lowey: Abortion should be legal and safe and rare. We should reduce abortions by offering contraceptive care, not by denying access to abortion.
McMorris Rodgers: Protection for children should start at moment that life begins. Women object to gov funding of abortion.
Ellsworth: We need to offer Prolife options on the exchange. I have been working with the Catholic bishops on this amdt. This has not been easy, but the amdt. honors and respects life, including the unborn. With passage of this amdt. I will support the bill.
Lee: Inserts federal gov into women’s choices. I am Catholic and I can understand the tough moral choices. But this amdt. will return us to the dark days of back alley abortions. Stupak goes way beyond Hyde. Stupak brings outrageous religious views into public policy. We have a separation of church and state that requires us not to cross this line. Also, it will hurt low income women.
Ryan: Support proteciton of life. Vote with a clean conscience.
Nadler: We are trying to level the playing field for women, but Stupak discriminates agasint women. There would be no abortion in public option, and Stupak would change existing law.
Bachmann: Life is the watershed issue of this generation. Destruction of life not healthcare.
Quigley: Only people who can afford insurance can get abortions. Poor women will be forced to sacrifice privacy.
Fortenberry: The vast majority of Americans do not want federal funding of abortion. Women deserve better. From early childhood to the elderly, we should not compromise. It is not ours to decide who lives or who dies.
Slaughter-(co chair of pro choice caucus) For years, pro-life and pro-choice members have been in a peaceful coexistence around Hyde. H.R. 3962 has the strongest conscience clause yet–and even that is now being strengthened. 30-40 years of women’s accomplishments are being cancelled out. Poor women will have to go to the back alley.
Schakowsky: Only option for abortion is separate policy. Millions of women will be losing coverage.
Lipinski-Approve the Hyde amdt for this bill through supporting Stupak.
Chris Smith: Abby Johnson viewed abortion and became pro-life because she saw how abortion kills a child. Abortion harms women–women who have abortions are more likely to later suffer depression. Abortion contributes to pre term birth–and pre term birth contributes to other problems we want to avoid. If we want to reduce abortions-dont fund them. A Guttmacher study confirms this.
Kaptur: Stupak Amdt. reaffirms Hyde, nothing more
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Thank you. My daughter had just as much right to life as any woman! Love Stupak
I CAN’T believe what I read from Rep. Lee!!! Says they are Catholic, then calls the Church’s eternal commitment to LIFE from conception an “outrageous religious view!!!” Lee is NOT a Catholic.
Shame on you Lee how can you call yourself a catholic and say what you did. Our country was formed one nation UNDER GOD!!! Have any of you spoke to a post abortive woman recently? Some of you want abortions to remain legall and then the government can pay for the medical bills because of the depression, drug abuse, post abortive stress syndrome they suffer or they can start paying for the funerals because of suiside they commit because they cant live with the fact that they realize years later they were a participant in the murder of their child. Go to the bookstore nearest you and pick up the book “Forbidden Greif”
At least be informed on both sides before you cast a vote. Please read the book Please stop the madness of what our world is becoming. We don’t have a concentration camp that everyone sees but we have become no better than Hitler we have a slaughterhouse in the wombs of women. Go on line and go to the web site sound wave images watch the u tube and see for yourself the child that you all call a fetus see the heart beating of the unborn soon to be exterminated.Please use the inteligence given to you by God to research and to make wise decisions for someday you will have to answer to him who is greater than us.
Thank you for your time and your change of heart and mind that I will be praying for.
God bless you all,
Reps. Lee and others need to be reminded that in this country we have the right to LIFE, not murder, LIBERTY, not the freedom to enslave and the pursuit of HAPPINESS, which can never truly be attained without respect for the lives of others. “In God We Trust” Let’s try to act that way. It’s our only hope!
Lee is a Catholic? I can’t believe it; an embarassment to practicing Catholics everywhere if true. Either Lee’s tremendously ignorant, or a hypocritical liar. You can;t be catholic AND proabortion.
I don’t want a single dollar of my money spent on abortions..period.