Now is the time to act. Please take advantage of the opportunity to approach your legislators while they are in their home districts! If you act now and get your friends to do the same, your legislators will listen!
Here’s what you need to know:
* The rush to takeover the entire health care system –
at a staggering cost of $900 BILLION — and impose an
abortion mandate on America was NOT completed prior to
the U.S. House and Senate going on recess
* The flood of your calls, letters, and e-mails to
congressional offices led to a misinformation “push-
back” campaign by abortion advocates in Congress, media
outlets, and Planned Parenthood (America’s largest
abortion chain) — falsely claiming that taxpayers
would not be forced to fund abortions through the
proposed takeover (Contact your reps if you haven’t already!)
* The Associated Press ran a major story exposing the
truth: that abortion WOULD be funded through the
proposed health care reform legislation; read the
article at: http://tinyurl.com/kp3445
Now it’s August and your U.S. Representative and your two U.S. Senators are home for a month-long recess, and you can take further action to Stop the Abortion Mandate:
http://www.StopTheAbortionMandate.com/actionkit.pdf
Your elected officials need to hear about your opposition to the deadly abortion mandate in the health care takeover being proposed in Washington, D.C.
How can you do this?
Through Town Hall meetings!
While home, many Members of Congress connect with constituents through Town Hall meetings — large group gatherings meant to be a question and answer session between the Members and you.
With abortion mandates included in the current health care takeover proposals, elected officials have a lot to answer for at their Town Hall meetings.
You may have seen recent videos or news coverage of Town Hall meetings where Representatives couldn’t give good answers to their constituents when asked about the proposed health care takeover.
With the Senators also now at home, it’s time to ask even MORE questions — and get answers!
Stop the Abortion Mandate has created an “August Recess Action Toolkit” that you can take with you to Town Hall meetings or any meetings you have with elected officials in their district offices.
Here’s how YOU can make an even greater impact:
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Download the complete action toolkit in PDF format at:
http://www.StopTheAbortionMandate.com/actionkit.pdf
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2.) FIND YOUR LOCAL TOWN HALL MEETINGS
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Find out where and when your Representative and Senators
are holding Town Hall meetings by visiting:
http://stoptheabortionmandate.com/take-action/townhall
If your elected officials aren’t listed, call their office
and ask for the schedule of their Town Hall meetings. If
you find that they are canceling Town Hall meetings to
avoid accountability to constituents, please notify us at:
info@stoptheabortionmandate.com
If your Member of Congress isn’t holding any Town Hall
meetings, you can still reach out and visit their district
office and setting up a personal meeting to express your
concerns about the abortion mandate.
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3.) ATTEND TOWN HALL MEETINGS TO POSE QUESTIONS
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Go to local Town Hall meetings and ask polite but pointed
questions of Senators and Representatives like:
“Will you oppose any health care bill that uses tax
dollars to pay for abortions?”
“How will you keep abortion out of any proposed health
care reform?”
“Will you oppose any health care bill that forces people
into health plans that mandate abortion coverage?”
“Will you ensure that any health care reform proposal
explicitly excludes abortion coverage or taxpayer funding
of abortions?”
Please remember to always be polite, even when you have to
be insistent. Rudeness or personal insults reflect badly
on the pro-life cause. Also remember to take a video
camera to film the questions and answers, if possible.
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4.) KEEP IT SIMPLE
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Don’t over-complicate things. Keep your questions and
comments simple, using key talking points like:
* Stop the Abortion Mandate
* Keep abortion out of health care
* No taxpayer funding of abortion
* No health plans that mandate coverage of abortion
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5.) VISIT STOPTHEABORTIONMANDATE.COM
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Go to the http://www.StopTheAbortionMandate.com web
site for more action items and tips for how you can help
stop the abortion mandate.
The August recess is crucial to making sure YOUR voice
gets heard. Members of Congress must be asked to account
for the crisis created in the health care bill that
mandates abortion coverage and forces taxpayers to
fund abortions.
Please act now — millions of lives depend on you!
– Stop The Abortion Mandate Coalition
P.S.- The Stop the Abortion Mandate Coalition is looking for people who would like to be a part of a national viral video. The goal of the video is to raise awareness and get people to take action against the greatest threat to unborn human life since Roe v. Wade: the abortion industry’s attempt to hijack health care.
Get all the details on how you can be in our video at:
http://stoptheabortionmandate.com/take-action/be-in-video
Hurry, the deadline to submit your video is tomorrow, Tuesday, August 11!
