Fw: ACTION ALERT: Stop pro-abortion Surgeon General nominee

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Just recieved this..........Sharing with list.
Sis. Lynna Lunsford
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> From: Steven A. Ertelt <ertelt@prolife.org>
> To: Steve Ertelt <ertelt@prolife.org>
> Subject: ACTION ALERT: Stop pro-abortion Surgeon General nominee
> Date: Thursday, October 23, 1997 12:37 PM
> 
> Senate Committee Backs Pro-abortion Satcher for Attorney General
> 
> WASHINGTON, Oct 22 -- A Senate panel Wednesday recommended that Dr. David
> Satcher be confirmed as President Clinton's nominee for surgeon general,
> despite some last minute opposition because of his views on partial-birth
> abortions.
> 
> The vote in the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee was 12-5, with
> five conservative Republicans opposing Satcher because he agrees with
> President Clinton on supporting partial-birth abortions. 
> 
> Congress wants to ban partial-birth abortions except when a woman's life
> is in danger, but Clinton wants a broader exemption for a woman's health
> that would undermine the entire ban. 
> 
> Committee chairman Sen. James Jeffords, a Vermont Republican, said he
> expected a Senate vote on Satcher soon. He is likely to win confirmation
> to the newly-combined position of surgeon general and assistant secretary
> for health. 
> 
> The surgeon general post has been vacant for nearly three years, since
> Clinton's first appointee, Dr. Joycelyn Elders, had to quit after a
> plethora of gaffes, mistatements, and misdeeds. 
> 
> Clinton's next nominee, Dr. Henry Foster, failed to win Senate
> confirmation because he had admitted to having performed abortions and
> because he was not up front about how many he had performed. 
> 
> Satcher is not an obstetrician and the abortion issue did not emerge at
> his confirmation hearings two weeks ago. Yet several pro-life members
> voted against his confirmation because of new revelations concerning his
> support for a pro-abortion "health" exception to the ban on partial-birth
> abortions. 
> 
> Two Republicans, Sen. Bill Frist of Tennessee and Sen. John Warner of
> Virginia, said they disagreed with Satcher about partial birth abortions
> but still voted for him as the right man for the job.
> 
> ACTION ALERT:  It is imperative that you contact your Senators today and
> urge *opposition* to confirming Satcher as Surgeon General. A nominee who
> supports an exception that would invalidate the entire ban on
> partial-birth abortions is not fit to be certified as the nation's health
> leader. Call your Senator at 1-800-522-6721. You can also find contact
> information (postal, office phone, fax, email and web page addresses) for
> your Senators at The Armchair Lobbyist - http://www.prolife.org/tal
> 
> ** Please pass this alert along to other pro-life people you know. **
> 
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