Choose Life! 
Florida Eagle Forum legislative director Carole Griffin was on hand as Gov. Jeb Bush signed a of a bill authorizing the “Choose Life” automobile license tag. Congratulations, Florida pro-lifers! Your persistence paid off.

God Bless Rep. Tom Coburn! 
On June 8th the House voted 217 - 214 (with 2 Republicans and 2 Democrats not voting) to block the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from issuing final approval for RU-486, the abortion drug, or any other drug designed to cause an abortion. (Because of the abortion industry’s successful use of twisted language, other drugs that cause abortion like Preven, oral contraceptives and Depo Provera will not be blocked because their stated “purpose” is to “prevent pregnancy,” while the purpose of RU-486 is to cause a chemical abortion.) Rep. Tom Coburn (R-OK) offered the amendment to the Agriculture Appropriations Bill. 181 Republicans and 36 Democrats voted pro-life. 173 Democrats voted pro-abortion along with 40 Republicans. The bill will soon go to the Senate and then to a House-Senate Conference Committee where we will be fighting to keep the Coburn amendment. Please ask your Senators to vote to block FDA approval of the chemical abortion-causing agent, RU-486. Capitol Switchboard - 202-224-3121. Our thanks to Eagle Forum executive director Sheila Moloney for this report.

“Pill Bills” Force Mandate on Small Businesses 
A well-written letter-to-the-editor of the Las Vegas Review Journal by Chuck Mutch, chairman of the Nevada Republican Liberty Caucus, spells out the costly implications of legislation forcing insurance coverage of contraceptives and abortion-causing drugs. Referring to Assembly Bill 60, recently enacted by the Nevada Assembly, Mr. Much makes the excellent point that promoters of the so-called “pill bill” are hiding their “social agenda by forcing private businesses to provide the goodies in the form of government mandates. The government is now telling a private business - insurance companies - what services and products it MUST provide to its customers - contraceptive drugs. This is like the government telling McDonalds that it MUST provide guacamole as a condiment for all its sandwiches. That means a higher cost of doing business, which means higher prices for hamburgers, which, of course, will be passed on to the customer.”

Not only are insurance companies being forced to cover these destructive drugs, but small business owners who are pro-life and conscientiously object to paying for such coverage for their employees, will either exclude these drugs from the policies they buy, or drop coverage of prescription drugs altogether.

Mr. Mutch ended his letter by stating that, “ . . . social activists have set their sights on businesses as the vehicle for accomplishing their leftist objectives without incurring the wrath of a conservative-leaning electorate. What is harder to understand, though, is how so many so-called “conservative” Democrats and so-called “business friendly” Republicans were sucked in by this new brand of social engineering and voted for it.”