1.  The Associated Press (AP) states that the health care legislation being pushed by the Obama White House would cover elective abortions.

Under the Senate bill, both a public plan and private insurance would "cover abortion, without funding restrictions," the AP wrote. 

In the House, over pro-life objections, a "compromise" amendment to HR 3200 was approved 30-28 by the Energy and Commerce Committee.  Sponsored by Congresswoman Lois Capps (D-CA), who has a 100% pro-abortion voting record, this provision would authorize a government-run public plan to cover elective abortions and also provide new federal premium subsidies to flow to private plans that cover elective abortions.

LifeNews.com reports that Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ) called the Capps Amendment "one of the most deceptive amendments I have ever seen.  The bottom line is that money is fungible, and the plan itself will be subsidizing abortion-on-demand, with taxpayer funding commingled, and the numbers of abortions will go significantly up."

The AP stated that the Capps amendment would circumvent the current federal law that prohibits federal funding of Medicaid abortions except in case of rape, incest, or to save the life of the mother.

Richard Doerflinger, Associate Director of Pro-Life Activities for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said that no one should have "to pay for other people's abortions."

Congresswoman Capps countered, "Not everyone adheres to what the Catholic bishops believe."

Douglass Johnson, Legislative Director for the National Right to Life Committee, said, "Under either the Senate bill or the House bill, the federal government would run a huge system of subsidizing elective abortion."

Detailed information on the federal funding of abortion on demand in the Senate and House health care legislation is available online at http://www.nrlactioncenter.com/.

2.  The National Education Association (NEA) has passed a plethora of pro-homosexual and pro-abortion resolutions at its annual convention.

In an article posted on Townhall.com, conservative leader Phyllis Schlafly reported that at this year's meeting in San Diego, the NEA "went all-out in support of same-sex marriage" with the "emphasis on advocacy for homosexuals."

The group also passed a resolution endorsing "family planning, including the right to reproductive freedom."

Schlafly lamented, "Since the NEA is the largest and most powerful teachers union, it is reasonable to assume that these attitudes will follow the teachers into the classroom" of many public schools.

However, the NEA may be feeling heat from conservatives. 

Bob Chanin, their retiring general counsel, complained in his goodbye speech, "Why are these conservative and right-wing bastards picking on NEA and its affiliates?"