Pro-Life Groups Left Off Obama's Health Care Summit List, Abortion Advocates OK

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
March 5, 2009

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- President Barack Obama has apparently shut out pro-life groups from attending today's health care summit to dialogue on how health care reform should be implemented. However, the White House had no problem inviting Planned Parenthood and other groups that support abortion.

The summit is an attempt by the Obama administration to focus on reducing and containing costs as well as expanding coverage and Obama sees it as a starting point for tackling the overhaul of health care.

With pro-life advocates worried about the attempt to expand abortion by either making taxpayers fund abortions in a national health care plan or requiring insurance companies to pay for them, pro-life groups have a key interest in the outcome of the debate.

However, Obama appeared to shut them out of the discussion. the rest