SCANDAL--That Children in America, unlike most every Western civilized country don't have comprehensive universal health care coverage. Pro-Life is Pro-Health. Let's take care of the kids who are here so women of all ages can feel confident in bringing more to life. Stop playing political Poker with kid's health and lives. Let's take care of the ones that are here. It makes me sick.
FROM THE DIRECTOR For Immediate Release
Friday, January 18, 2007
CONTACT: Ed Shelleby 202-662-3602
CDF Statement on Upcoming Congressional Vote to Override the President's SCHIP Veto
Failure to Stand Up for Children Would Be
"Morally Indefensible"
Editorial Note: How utterly pathetic that single childless moral theologians with no interest in procreating condemn women for allegedly thinking unchaste thoughts when they totally ignore that kids are literally dying because of the health care crisis in the US, how utterly pathetic that the richest Western nation cannot figure out how to align the health interests of the country with the capitalist impules of pharmaceutical and HMO shareholders. As my mother used to say "Don't be so heavenly minded that you are no earthly damned good." We can spend 12 Billion in Oil Wars but we can't take care of our own American family.
KIDS START LIFE AT FERTILIZATION/ CONCEPTION. THEY HAVE A FULL DNA PROFILE AT THAT POINT. THUS ANY COMPREHENSIVE UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE HAS TO COVER PRE-NATAL AND PREGNANCY CARE FOR WOMEN WHO HOUSE THEM IN UTERO.
GET TOGETHER AND GET IT DONE- OR GET OUT OF THE WAY.
WASHINGTON, DC - Children's Defense Fund President Marian Wright Edelman today issued the following statement in advance of next week's vote in the House of Representatives to override the President's second veto of legislation to reauthorize the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP):
"Once again, Congress has the opportunity to stand with the more than nine million uninsured children in America and override President Bush's veto of a SCHIP bill that would extend critical health coverage to more than 3 million of the more than 9 million uninsured children in this country," said Edelman. "A vote in support of the President's action to deny health coverage to these children would be morally indefensible. Every 41 seconds, another child is born uninsured, and each day that Congress delays action, another 2,100 children are born without health coverage. Over the past two years alone, the number of uninsured children in America has increased by more than one million. It is time to stop playing politics and do what is right for our nation's children. I urge every Member of Congress to reach down into their hearts, think about the children and families in their districts and around the country who are counting on them, and cast their vote to override this immoral veto."
For more information on CDF's campaign to provide health coverage to all children in America, please visit: www.childrensdefense.org/healthychild
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