[Pflienews] PharmFacts E-News Update: Deep Deiscounts for Klan Parenthood abortifacients in 'Defense" Bill; ARTL to NRTL: put up or shut up!

Sat May 24 12:29:24 MDT 2008

*PharmFacts E-News Update -- 24 May 2008 AD

*http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?parm1=3&docID=news-000002882054

      CQ TODAY PRINT EDITION
      <http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?parm1=3&docID=news-000002882054#>
      -- HEALTH
      Updated May 22, 2008 -- 3:22 p.m.

  "Birth Control" Provision Survives in Supplemental, Upsetting Some in GOP

      By Liriel Higa and Jonathan Allen, CQ Staff
      <http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?parm1=3&docID=news-000002882054#>

A proposal that would restore government subsidies for birth control 
pills and devices at university health clinics and Planned Parenthood 
centers was retained in the Senate version of the war supplemental 
spending bill sent to the House on Thursday.

The provision seeks to undo part of a 2006 deficit reduction law (PL 
109-171) that squeezed a total of $38.9 billion in savings from a 
variety of programs, including federal student loans, Medicare and 
Medicaid.

*That law removed university clinics and private birth control clinics 
from the list of entities eligible for "nominal" pricing under the 
Public Health Service Act (PL 78-410) --- a law enacted in 1944 and 
revised numerous times since then --- which outlines a series of federal 
health program partnerships with states, localities and nonprofit 
schools, among other provisions.*

Proponents of the drug discounts that benefited low-income women and 
college students say those discounts were not intended to be 
discontinued by the 2006 law [PFLI note: that means extra $$$ profits 
for Klan Parenthood at discounts mom and pop pharmacies can never enjoy].

The administration saw it differently, and roughly 400 college, 
community and Planned Parenthood clinics lost birth control discounts.

An amendment to the supplemental war spending bill adopted, 75-22, by 
the Senate on Thursday would restore the drug price discounts. That 
amendment would also provide a variety of domestic spending.

The move angered some Republicans.

"Sneaking a divisive provision into a war spending bill that will help 
Planned Parenthood . . . is politics as usual --- not change," said John 
Hart, spokesman for conservative Republican Tom Coburn 
<http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=profile-000000000394> of 
Oklahoma. Hart said Wednesday that Coburn was looking at ways to address 
the provision, but it wasn't the subject of any floor debate Thursday.

    Echoes of [Barrie Hussein] Obama Language

The provision in the supplemental spending bill that would restore the 
discounts mirrors legislation (S 2347) introduced in November 2007 by 
Sen. Barack Obama 
<http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=profile-000000007612> , 
D-Ill. A spokeswoman for Joseph Crowley 
<http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=profile-000000000345> , 
D-N.Y., who introduced similar legislation (HR 4054) in the House, said 
Crowley has worked on the issue with Sens. Obama; Patty Murray 
<http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=profile-000000000522> , 
D-Wash.; and Max Baucus 
<http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=profile-000000000287> , 
D-Mont.

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton 
<http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=profile-000000007201> of 
New York, Obama's rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, is 
also a cosponsor.

Proponents of the repeal say that providing lower-cost birth control 
reduces abortions.

Obama's legislation was cosponsored by Majority Leader Harry Reid 
<http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=profile-000000000337> , 
D-Nev., and Bob Casey 
<http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=profile-000000015266> , 
D-Pa., who are both abortion opponents.

  Birth Control Provision Survives in Supplemental, Upsetting Some in GOP

But the conservative Family Research Council issued a statement 
Wednesday decrying the provision.

Although the White House has broadly expressed its opposition to the 
inclusion of non-war items in the war supplemental (HR 2642), it has not 
issued a specific veto threat on the birth control proposal.

Democrats sought to include the repeal of the birth control restrictions 
in a previous war funding bill, but it was removed during the House 
Appropriations Committee markup last year.

Crowley's stand-alone bill on the issue has considerable support in the 
House.

Angela Barranco, a spokeswoman for Crowley, said the supplemental is an 
appropriate vehicle for the provision. "It is not the only domestic 
priority included in the emergency spending bill, and it's 
revenue-neutral," she said.

/First posted May 22, 2008 11:31 a.m./

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http://americanrighttolife.org/news/artl-offers-natl-rtl-10000

  ARTL offers Nat'l RTL $10,000

For Immediate Release
May 21, 2008

*$10,000 Cash Offered to Nat'l RTL
from American RTL to name 'one' pro-life justice*

*See this also at Yahoo 
<http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20080521/pl_usnw/10000_offer_to_national_rtl_from_american_rtl_to_name____one____pro_life_justice> 
Denver Post <http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_9334926> CovenantNews 
<http://www.covenantnews.com/newswire/archives/042283.html> CNBC 
<http://www.cnbc.com/id/24761029/> etc 
<http://www.google.com/search?q=%22american+right+to+life%22+%2410,000+%22single+justice%22+Bopp&num=100&hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&rlz=1I7GGLD&filter=0>*.

"American Right To Life is offering attorney James Bopp $10,000 for 
National RTL," said the group's president Brian Rohrbough, "if he can 
name a single justice on the current U.S. Supreme Court who has ever 
written, or joined in an opinion, that the unborn child has a right to 
life, whether in a majority ruling or a dissent."

"In 1981, after president Ronald Reagan agreed he would sign /federal/ 
personhood legislation for the unborn, National Right to Life and their 
longtime attorney James Bopp actually opposed that effort claiming they 
supported a states' rights approach," says the group's site 
AmericanRTL.org <http://americanrtl.org/>. "A quarter century later 
notice that NRTL and Bopp have long opposed all /state/ personhood efforts."

On May 13, Colorado pro-lifers turned in 131,000 signatures exceeding by 
55,000 the number needed to force a statewide vote to acknowledge in law 
the personhood of the unborn child.

"National Right to Life has misled the pro-life community to think that 
this is the wrong time to advocate personhood because we need one more 
Justice on the Supreme Court to have a pro-life majority," said 
Rohrbough. "But if we added a Justice who would uphold the right to life 
of the unborn, then we would have /only one/ such Justice. The failed 
long-term strategy of /regulating/ the killing of a fetus has left 
America without a single Justice who knows that it's wrong to kill an 
unborn baby; National RTL's compromise will never produce a pro-life 
Supreme Court."

Even Dr. James Dobson, a supporter of the failed regulation strategy 
admits 
<http://www.citizenlink.org/focusaction/fofafeatures/A000006802.cfm> 
that: "Ending partial-birth abortion... does not save a single human 
life." And in an article about NRTL's failed PBA ban, Notre Dame Law 
School's professor emeritus Charles Rice said, "Every justice now on the 
court accepts the /Roe/ holding that the unborn child is a non-person... 
The situation remains as described by Justice John Paul Stevens in 
/Planned Parenthood v. Casey/." For Stevens had written that "the 
Court... rejected, the argument 'that the fetus is a "person"'. ... 
there was no dissent..." And Clarence Thomas wrote in his /Stenberg/ 
dissent that "a State may permit abortion," and Antonin Scalia wrote in 
/Casey/, "The states may, if they wish, permit abortion-on-demand..."

"American Right to Life will give a $10,000 cash prize to National if 
their general counsel James Bopp can name even a single U.S. Supreme 
Court Justice who has ever written or joined in any ruling or dissent 
advocating the personhood of the unborn," said Steve Curtis, ARTL's vice 
president and former chairman of the Colorado Republican Party. "To make 
their strategy appear successful, National Right To Life has misled the 
pro-life movement into believing that abortion accomplices like Samuel 
Alito, John Roberts, Thomas and Scalia are pro-life."

In 2002 Scalia said, "I will... strike down a law that is the /opposite/ 
of Roe v. Wade. ... One wants no state to be able to prohibit abortion 
and the other one wants every state to have to prohibit abortion, and 
they're /both wrong/..." In 2004 Scalia claimed, "Take the abortion 
issue... there's something to be said for both sides." And on April 9, 
2008 Scalia said, "You want the right to abortion? Create it the way 
most rights are created in a democracy. Persuade your fellow citizens 
it's a good idea - and pass a law."

"National RTL claims success in Antonin Scalia but he is not pro-life; 
like all the Republicans on the Court, he is a legal positivist, which 
is a courtroom moral relativist," Rohrbough said. "Like their Dred Scott 
counterpart that ruled a black man could be owned as property, the 
current Republican Supreme Court is wicked and will only learn about the 
right to life of the unborn from the advancing personhood wing of the 
pro-life movement."

Contact:
National RTL can contact Donna Ballentine
1-888-888-ARTL (2785)
office at AmericanRTL.org <mailto:office at AmericanRTL.org>

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