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Here’s a letter from CatholicVote President Brian Burch concerning serious revelations about the new health care law and its permissiveness on abortion — despite what most everyone who read the billsaid. Brian spells out a crucial episode being played out in Pennsylvania right now that could determine whether, despite President Obama’s cynical executive order to the contrary, federal funding of abortions now will be the law of the land>

Dear CatholicVote Friend,

Can you answer this question?

Does President Obama’s new healthcare law fund abortions or not?

Last week the Obama administration announced they would be pouring hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars (our money!) into high-risk insurance pools in Pennsylvania and New Mexico where taxpayer funded abortions would be covered.

And then they got caught.

The National Right to Life Committee exposed the plan, prompting pro-life groups and legislative leaders to demand answers. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) responded by promising not to use the funds for abortion. This time.

Sign our petition to the Catholic Health Association to help us make sure this doesn’t happen again!

Cardinal DiNardo speaking on behalf of the Catholic Bishops responded saying: “We welcome this new policy [preventing abortion coverage] . . . while continuing to be gravely concerned that it was not issued until after some states had announced that pro-abortion health plans were approved and had begun to enroll patients.”

The Cardinal emphasized that the episode makes clear that a new law (not an Executive Order) is needed to strictly prohibit all funding for abortion.

Let’s face it, the nearly 2000-page health care law is so complicated it is virtually impossible to keep up with the new authorities and regulatory agencies that could be manipulated to funnel your money to abortion providers.

So something must be done.

Taxpayer dollars must NEVER be used to fund the destruction of innocent human life.

Some groups claiming to be faithful to the Church continue to claim that the new health care bill does not fund abortion. But last week’s episode proves there are loopholes, and we can’t rely on promises from the Obama administration to keep our money out of the hands of abortion doctors.

Our petition to the Catholic Health Association calling on them to get behind the Protect Life Act continues to add new signatures every day.

Join over 56,000 people that have already signed our petition!

If the Catholic Health Association claims to be Catholic, then they must be held accountable.

Help us turn up the heat. Sign our petition today. …

- Your Friends at CatholicVote.org

Senator Robert Casey, Jr., (D-Pa.) (contact here) is a central figure in the ever important abortion debate within the larger debate on the U.S. Senate’s pending health care legislation. The Catholic son of the late Democrat, staunchly pro-life, Pennsylvania governor, campaigned as one who was as adamantly pro-life as his dad. That’s pretty hard to be, especially for a Democrat. His dad was censored from speaking at the 1992 Democrat National Convention for his pro-life views.

Now, he is one of the few Democrat senators who can possibly derail the government takeover of the American health care system, which is one-sixth of the economy, and preserve the ban on federal funds for abortions, reject mandates that insurance companies provide abortion coverage, and maintain conscience clause protections for medical professionals. The entire bill may come down to abortion and whether self-proclaimed “pro-life Democrats” live up to their word.

Unfortunately, Senator Casey thus far in his term has cozied up to the pro-abortion-on-demand leftists who monopolize his party’s leadership. In fact, Senator Casey has introduced “compromise” abortion language to Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) health care monstrosity (see Kathryn Jean Lopez at the National Review’s Health Care Blog). The National Right To Life Committee responded quickly, dismissing it as language that does almost nothing to improve the overall bill’s policy on abortion (see letter here). Besides, how does one compromise on abortion? Are there “half-way abortions”?

Still, there is some expectation he can be a moderating voice on abortion within the Democrat Senate caucus. Now, many are asking him to show the courageous leadership his father displayed during his distinguished career. Helping to remind him, Catholic Vote Action has entered the debate and has bought television time in Pennsylvania to encourage citizens there to contact Senator Casey and encourage him to stay true to his proclaimed pro-life position, and vote against the health care legislation.

If you live in Pennsylvania, contact Senator Casey and ask him to stay true to principle, not to mention the Truth. Or, if you know people there, forward them this link and ask them to contact Senator Casey as well.

Pennsylvania Catholics have the responsibility to ask Senator Robert Casey, Jr., to not let them down.