[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 20]
[House]
[Page 27125]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    PELOSI BILL WILL FUND ABORTIONS

  (Mr. FLEMING asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. FLEMING. Mr. Speaker, health care reform should not be used as an 
opportunity to use Federal funds to pay for elective abortions. Health 
reform should be an opportunity to protect human life, not end it. 
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is proposing a 2,032-page government 
takeover of health care that directs the new government-run plan to 
cover elective abortions. There is no getting around it. Under 
Speaker's Pelosi's government takeover of health care, Federal funds 
will be used to pay for abortions under the government-run plan and to 
subsidize individual plans that include abortion.
  As an alternative to Speaker Pelosi's bill, House Republicans are 
offering a commonsense, responsible solution that would reduce health 
care costs and expand access while protecting the dignity of all human 
life. The Republican plan would codify the Hyde amendment and prohibit 
all authorized and appropriated Federal funds from being used to pay 
for abortions.
  Under the Republican plan, any health plan that includes abortion 
coverage may not receive Federal funds. As a doctor with more than 30 
years' experience, I will be voting ``no'' on the Pelosi health care 
bill that will destroy life instead of protect it.

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