From the National Right to Life committee: Dem congressman Tim Ryan

endorses the Capps Amendment — an amendment that was added to the Obama-backed health care bill (H.R. 3200) in a House committee last week. The Capps Amendment, crafted by pro-abortion Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Ca.) and offered by a lawmaker with a decade-long [zero-percent] pro-life voting record, Rep. Lois Capps (D-Ca.), was adopted over the objections of the pro-life members of the committee. The amendment would explicitly authorize the bill’s big new government-run insurance plan (the “public plan”) to cover any and all abortions, and it has other pro-abortion components as well. For more information on the fight by pro-life groups and real pro-life lawmakers against the ongoing effort by the pro-abortion lobby to use health-care reform legislation as a vehicle to obtain federal subsidies for health plans that will pay for elective abortion, click here.

For more on the health-care debate, see Critical Condition.