Theres a new and very troubling legislative development underway on Capitol Hill. Congress is pushing for national health care coverage including mandatory coverage for abortions. Abortion would be considered a health benefit in both government and private insurance plans. This is outrageous! The American Center for Law and Justice is mobilizing and demanding that Congress insert a critical exemption REMOVE abortion services from mandatory coverage. Stand with the ACLJ to keep abortion services out of national health care legislation. Please read the form below carefully and declare your membership with the ACLJ by adding your name to our Petition to Stop an Abortion Mandate.

PETITION TO STOP AN ABORTION MANDATE

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As a firm supporter of protecting life, I am deeply concerned about the official White House release calling on Americans to report those who make "fishy" statements about health care reform. The release is an attack on free speech and designed to stifle public debate about the health care issue.

I am also profoundly disturbed by proposed health care reform legislation that poses serious risk to the unborn citizens of our nation.

Without abortion explicitly excluded from any government-mandated or government-funded benefits package, abortion will be included. I cannot, and will not, support abortion as a so-called health benefit. Furthermore, in legislation as important and future-shaping as health care reform, safeguards must be enacted to ensure, beyond any doubt, that abortion is not mandated or subsidized.

As my elected official, I urge you to use the full influence of your office to uphold the sanctity of life and protect the unborn by including language that will explicitly exempt abortion services from mandatory coverage. Keep abortion services out of national health care legislation.