Washington, D.C. – Liberty Counsel Action is educating legislators on Capitol Hill on the necessity for 10 pro-life riders that should not even be up for debate as many have been included in budgets for 30 or more years. This battle is gearing up for the fight over the budget for fiscal year 2020. These riders include the following:

1. Hyde Amendment (prevents tax dollars paying for abortion outside of Medicaid)
2. Weldon Amendment (protects religious healthcare providers from state discrimination)
3. Conscience Protection Act (protects religious medical staff from forced procedures)
4. Coats-Snowe (protects medical students from being forced to learn to do abortions)
5. Embryonic Stem Cell Research Ban
6. NIH Human-Animal Chimera Funding Ban
7. Stop funding for research using aborted fetal tissue
8. State Planned Parenthood Funding Opt Out
9. No funding for Planned Parenthood
10. Faith-based Adoption Agency Conscience Protections

Since Republicans introduced the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, there is a surge in pro-life sentiment among both Democrat and Republican voters. Earlier Marist surveys showed that abortion numbers have held steady for the past 10 years. However, in just one month, pro-life self-identification jumped 17 percentage points by February 2019.

• Democrats under 45 who self-identify as pro-life jumped from 20 percent to 34 percent.
• Just 28 percent of Americans under 45 years old identified as pro-life in January, but that number jumped to 47 percent the next month.
• Pro-choice Americans under 45 dropped from 65 percent to 48 percent in the same timeframe.

"Protecting a living newborn infant is not about being pro-life, its about being compassionate and human," said Mat Staver, Chairman of Liberty Counsel Action, "Already we are seeing the powerful and dangerous consequences of these 44 U.S. Senators leaving infants out to die. When will our nation come to its senses?" said Staver.



Liberty Counsel Action created a video discussing the actions of forty-four U.S. Democrat Senators who voted on February 25, 2019 against a bill to protect newborn infants. Bill S.311 would have provided equal medical care for newborns even if their mom didn’t want them. Since that bill failed, this week the Illinois legislature is considering a bill that will legalize infanticide. Known as the Reproductive Health Act, HB 2495 defines and allows “abortion” as the use of anything “with an intention other than ... to preserve the life or health of the child after live birth.” Below is a complete list of the U.S. Senators who blocked these protections nationally:

Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) 202-224-4521 or Contact Form

Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)  202-224-3841 Contact Form
Kamala Harris (D-CA)  202-224-3553 or Contact Form

Michael Bennet (D-CO)  202-224-5852 or Contact Form

Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) 202-224-2823 or Contact Form
Chris Murphy (D-CT) 202-224-4041 or Contact Form (use Woman’s Issues)

Tom Carper (D-DE) 202-224-2441 or Contact Form
Chris Coons (D-DE) 202-224-5042 or Contact Form

Mazie Hirono (D-HI) 202-224-6361 or Contact Form
Brian Schatz (D-HI) 202-224-3934 or Contact Form

Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) 202-224-2854 or Contact Form
Dick Durbin (D-IL) 202-224-2152 or Contact Form

Angus King (I-ME) 202-224-5344 or Contact Form

Ben Cardin (D-MD) 202-224-4524 or Contact Form
Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) 202-224-4654 or Contact Form

Ed Markey (D-MA) 202-224-2742 or Contact Form
Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) 202-224-4543 or Contact Form

Gary Peters (D-MI) 202-224-6221 or Contact Form
Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) 202-224-4822 or Contact Form

Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) 202-224-3244 or Contact Form
Tina Smith (D-MN) 202-224-5641 or Contact Form

Jon Tester (D-MT) 202-224-2644 or Contact Form

Catherine Cortez-Masto (D-NV) 202-224-3542 or Contact Form
Jacky Rosen (D-NV) 202-224-6244 or Contact Form

Maggie Hassan (D-NH) 202-224-3324 or Contact Form
Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) 202-224-2841 or Contact Form

Cory Booker (D-NJ) 202-224-3224 or Contact Form
Bob Menendez (D-NJ) 202-224-4744 or Contact Form

Martin Heinrich (D-NM) 202-224-5521 or Contact Form
Tom Udall (D-NM) 202-224-6621 or Contact Form

Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) 202-224-4451 or Contact Form
Chuck Schumer (D-NY) 202-224-6542 or Contact Form

Sherrod Brown (D-OH) 202-224-2315 or Contact Form

Jeff Merkley (D-OR) 202-224-3753 or Contact Form
Ron Wyden (D-OR) 202-224-5244 or Contact Form

Jack Reed (D-RI) 202-224-4642 or Contact Form
Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) 202-224-2921 or Contact Form

Patrick Leahy (D-VT) 202-224-4242 or Contact Form
Bernie Sanders (I-VT) 202-224-5141 or Contact Form

Tim Kaine (D-VA) 202-224-4024 or Contact Form
Mark Warner (D-VA) 202-224-2023 or Contact Form

Maria Cantwell (D-WA) 202-224-3441 or Contact Form
Patty Murray (D-WA) 202-224-2621 or Contact Form

Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) 202-224-5653 or Contact Form

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