Senate’s Rejection of the Hatch-Nelson Amendment Endangers Preborn Life

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Focus on the Family Action Federal Issues Analyst Ashley Horne released the following statement today in response to the Senate voting down the Hatch-Nelson pro-life amendment. This amendment would have prevented federal dollars from being used to pay for abortion in proposed healthcare legislation.
 
“Today, the U.S. Senate failed to protect the preborn and ignored the will of the people they represent.
 
“Although 67 percent of Americans oppose the use of federal money to pay for abortion in any government-run healthcare, Senators nevertheless rejected the Hatch-Nelson amendment. Their vote would compel Americans who have moral and religious objects to abortion – and who now make up the majority of the country – to fund it. This is what Thomas Jefferson described as ‘tyrannical.’ 
 
“Focus on the Family continues to oppose the health care bill because it fails to protect the most vulnerable among us – the preborn. We will keep working diligently to ensure that this faulty legislation does not pass by giving a voice to the millions of Americans who oppose the use of federal funds to pay for abortion.”