Pro-life Democrats let down movement, leaders say

Pro-life leaders expressed disappointment with Senate Democrats who advocate protecting unborn children after the upper chamber voted Nov. 21 to move forward with a health-care bill that authorizes federal funds for abortion. With all Democrats in support, the Senate voted 60-39 to invoke cloture and bring Majority Leader Harry Reid's legislation to the floor for debate. Southern Baptist ethicist Richard Land expressed his displeasure. "When you compare the current Senate bill to scriptural principles embodied in the Baptist Faith and Message and in the ERLC's fifteen principles of health-care reform, it is a fatally flawed bill -- fatal in that it does not provide sufficient protections for unborn human life and would use public money to underwrite the abortion of unborn citizens." Baptist Press