Wyo. Senators Support Life
Aug 3rd 2007ScottPolitics & Wyoming & conservatism & pro-life issues & socialized healthcare
From Right to Life of Wyoming (emphasis added):
Washington, DC — Senators Mike Enzi and John Barrasso voted pro-life on Thursday night. They supported an amendment that would have helped poor pregnant women and their unborn children obtain prenatal care.
In 2002, President Bush authorized a change in the SCHIP program that allowed states to cover pregnant women and their babies — and many states (not Wyoming) have done so.
Right to Life of Wyoming strongly supports this program because it provides help to vulnerable pregnant women who might have an abortion because of financial pressures. We have called on Governor Freudenthal to cover pregnant women and their unborn babies under the SCHIP program and recently renewed this call.
But abortion advocacy groups decried the move because they don’t see an unborn child as worthy of coverage under a federal program that provides health care insurance for children after birth.
With control of Congress, pro-abortion lawmakers have revised the program and dropped the Unborn Child Rule in favor of language saying that pregnant women can be covered, but not their babies.
Sen. Wayne Allard, a Colorado Republican, attempted to include unborn children again, but his amendment was defeated Thursday on a 50-49 mostly party-line vote.
The legislation faces a fairly secure promised veto from President Bush. If you’d like to contact them regarding this issue, Senators Enzi and Barrasso have contact info on their web sites, accessible via links in the WVT blogroll under “U.S. Senate.”
WVT stands with WRTL on desiring the Governor respect the sanctity of human life in Wyoming. Wyoming is the Equality State. Our state constitution mandates that children have an equal opportunity for education. Is it so much to ask that they have an equal opportunity for life? I think not. You can contact the Governor by following the appropriate links on the Wyoming Government Page, listed on the WVT blogroll under “State of Wyoming.”
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