With DC black population “shrinking,” will Obama, pro-choicers support effort to stop taxpayer funding of abortion there?
UPDATE, 1/12, 11:55a 1/13, 11:05a: Here is the current list of cosigners. I’ll update it every few days. There is nothing published online:
Reps. Smith and Lipinski are joined by Akin, Bachmann, Bishop, Brooks, Broun, Buerkle, Burgess, Burton, Chaffetz, Cravaack, Duncan, Garrett, Griffith, Huelskamp, Jones, S. King, Long, Mulvaney, Murphy, Pompeo, Ribble, D. Ross, Walberg, and Woodall.
1/12, 11:29a: House Pro-life Caucus Co-Chairs Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Dan Lipinski (D-IL) are requesting members to co-sign a letter asking new House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers (R-KY), who is pro-life, and ranking member Norman Dicks (D-WA) who is pro-abortion, to reinstate the prohibition on taxpayer funding for abortion in the District of Columbia. This is known as the Dornan Amendment.
The deadline to sign the letter is January 28. I’m working on getting a list of names of current cosigners.
Background: Between 1996 and 2009 Congress prohibited both local and federal funds from being used for elective abortions in DC. But the Democrat-controlled Congress reversed this policy in 2010, prompted by pro-abort President Barack Obama.
Don’t forget pro-abort Senator Dick Durbin appallingly testified that taxpayers needed to fund abortion in DC because a “disproportionately large number of African Americans live in the District of Columbia.”
According to Guttmacher, 28% of all pregnancies end in abortion in DC, and DC has the 4th highest rate of abortion in the US.
According to the 2010 census, the “D.C. black population still shrinking,” so reported the Washington Post on January 7:
About 54% of the city is African American and 40% is white, the census figures show. At the beginning of the decade, the city was 61% black and 34% white.
This helps explain DC’s falling abortion rate. Although still high, it has been higher, according to Guttmacher. Currently, “36% of women obtaining abortions are white non-Hispanic, 30% are black non-Hispanic, 25% are Hispanic and 9% are of other racial backgrounds.”
Pro-aborts deny they target blacks for abortion, although history points otherwise. If indeed pro-aborts are not targeting blacks for abortion, they should support the pro-life effort to further stop the decimation of the black population in DC.
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
I’ll call my Rep, Scott Rigell again tomorrow and see if he can get with Chris Smith of NJ and see if he can help get the Dornan Amendment reinstated.
Interesting idea, but not very pressing though when you consider all the other issues facing the black community.
Could the shrinking population be due to the high cost of living in DC? Also, there is a continuing shift away from northern states to the south, so i wouldn’t jump to the conclusion that abortion is the reason for the declining black population in DC. As soon as I reach retirement age, I plan to get out of the “Snowbelt” too!
Message passed on to Congressman Rigell’s office to sign letter and urge reinstate the “Dornan Amendment”.
Good grief – the population of D.C. has been going down for 60 years…..
Sure,defund abortions so that more poor black kids can grow up in abject poverty,malnourished, poorly educated, denied opportunities to make it,subject to neglect ,physicla and sexual abuse,surrounded by filth,squalor, drugs,crime and violence.
Just what America needs. The brazen hypocrisy of you anti-choicers makes me sick.
I get it Robert. The alternative is to fund abortion so more poor black kids can not have the opportunity to grow up at all, whether in poverty or otherwise.
… poor black kids can grow up in abject poverty,malnourished, poorly educated, denied opportunities to make it,subject to neglect ,physicla and sexual abuse,surrounded by filth,squalor, drugs,crime and violence.
Um… do you believe this is how all poor black kids grow up? And do you also believe it’s only poor BLACK kids who do? Robert, Robert. I’m afraid your eugenic tendencies and racism are showing.
Do you really believe abortion will solve the problem of fatherlessness, poverty, malnutrition, sexual/physical abuse, drugs, crime and violence? Or do you just believe that by killing off people, we can “spare” them the “burden” of living? It’s a really neat little concept for someone who has the chance to live. Isn’t it convenient for you to decide that “poor black kids” are better off dead. I swear, sometimes I think you’re actually a pro-life plant here, you are just that ridiculous. :-/
I’m not racist nor do I believe in eugenics.My point was that unless we do a heck of a lot more to make sure that not only poor black children but poor children period get more help,abortion will remain common.
It’s racist and hypocritical to demand that abortion be made illegal,because this is just guaranteeing that more poor children will be born. This is disastrous for poor families and socisty in general. If you’re opposed to abortion you are a total hypocrite unless you are for greatly increased help for the poor. There isn’t remotely close to enough evailable.
You anti-choicers just don’t get it. You can’t expect to “stop” abortion by making it illegal.This deos not work.It never has and never will.
You anti-chocers love the unborn so much-but after they’re born,you dopn’t give a you-know-what about them.
The ONLY THING you ever advocate here is killing, Robert. Kill the poor. That’s the best you’ve got.
You still haven’t answered why you hate the poor so much and why instead of lifting a finger to help them out of their poverty you only want to see them kill their own.
@phillymiss I think you’re right, too bad your comment got lost in the bickering.
Unless you want a career in gov’t there really isn’t much in DC. I certainly wouldn’t want to live there, hell I don’t even care to visit.
Phillymiss has a good head on her shoulders, Captain, and indeed, the population of DC has been going down “forever” much as that of quite a few northern cities has. I think Cleveland, OH, is down to half or less of what it used to be.
There is a lot in and around DC, it’s the Capital of the US, which counts for a lot, has some international flavor in some areas, and is surrounded by other area which offer more.
But, yeah, the weather, the traffic….yuck.