Budget delights: Reinstating Mexico City policy, removing taxpayer funding of DC abortions, eliminating UNFPA funding – Wow
Fabulous news!
Republicans have submitted HR 1, the FY10 Continuing Resolution. “Continuing Resolution” is the term for the federal budget for the remainder of 2011. Incredibly, Democrats never finalized a budget for Fiscal Year 2011 when they had control of the House. This is now working in our favor. HR1 is being debated until Thursday afternoon and then voted on.
The CR contains several pro-life improvements. These include reinstating the ban on all taxpayer funding for elective abortion in the District of Columbia, reinstating the Mexico City Policy, eliminating funding for UNFPA, eliminating funding Title X, and reducing funding for international population control and family planning funding.
This is all great news but in reality is just undoing damage done since Obama became president.
In addition, according to LifeNews.com:
Meanwhile, 2 pro-life amendments are expected to be offered to the bill – including one from Congressman Mike Pence that would deny federal funds to the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and its affiliates since it is the largest abortion business in the nation….
Congressman John Fleming will offer a 2nd pro-life amendment that would prevent the expenditure of federal funds to rescind or modify the conscience-protecting regulations the Bush administration put in place for pro-life medical workers.
Recall I wrote the other day Republicans would try to defund PP 2 ways. You’ll see this reflected above by the attempted elimination of Title X funding as well as Pence’s amendment.
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.
GO PRO-LIFERS! Defund PP.
I think that those who were fired have lots that they could tell us.But I also think that making abortion clinics toe the line only cleans up their image and softens public perception of baby killing.
Our opponents are not going to be pleased with this.
They are going to say (why don’t I surprise you) that this is going to ruin women’s “health” in this country and all over the world.
Joe, our opponents will probably throw a fit like AlterNet did when they saw pro-life conservative Herman Cain speaking at CPAC. Did you see that trash? Cain was referred to as a “black garbage pail kid” and a “monkey in the window” among other things, just because he is a conservative man who happens to be black. But we’re the racist ones because we disagree with Obama’s pro-abortion policies. We’re the racist ones when Planned Parenthood’s legacy is the attempted extermination of the black race.
I just wanted to take a page fron ninek’s book and say: “Everybody have fun tonight, everybody DEFUND tonight”
I think that those who were fired have lots that they could tell us.But I also think that making abortion clinics toe the line only cleans up their image and softens public perception of baby killing.
Jo, You’re right, the perception may change for some people. You probably remember that Fr. Pavone said something to the effect of “they won’t reject abortion until they see abortion”. This heightened level of awareness brought by more oversight may be what gets more and more people to really SEE what abortion is. That would be a blessing in the long run.
“This heightened level of awareness brought by more oversight may be what gets more and more people to really SEE what abortion is. That would be a blessing in the long run.”
Janet, oversight or rather regulation, does not help people to SEE what abortion really is, but rather it whitewashes the atrocity. People are more than willing to pat themselves on the back for a perceived accomplishment and forget that children are still being killed in the abortuaries. Let’s face it we’ve had almost forty years of legislative regulations and all it has done is give the pro life movement a sense of accomplishment. We are fooling ourselves and it is not doing the children scheduled to die today any good. We need to put a stop to all abortion now. We can do that by standing unashamedly on God’s enduring command, Thou shall not murder. Then people will understand that God hates the hands that shed innocent blood. Then their hearts will soften and they will understand that abortion is just a euphemism for murder. If we are willing to walk by faith and not by sight our Lord and Savior will lead us to victory. It is out of fear that we decide to take the lead and leave Jesus for answers that make us feel good. We are a people of faith, aren’t we?
Jo is right. Cleaning up the mess at these places makes them look better and may cause more mothers to kill their unborn children.
If every mother thinks every killing facility in Pennsylvania is a house of horrors, it may reduce the rate of killing unborn children.
The ultimate solution of course is to shut them down once and for all.
Speaking of firings, our prolife governor Tom Corbett has fired some state workers involved in the abortion mill scandal. Good for him!
http://www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/news/nation/20110215_ap_pagovernorfiresworkersafterabortionscandal.html
NAR, that’s so awesome. I contemplated calling PP’s 800 numbers and singing to them, lol!
Oh, I got a new tune:
“Defund for your mother,
Defund for your father,
Defund for your children, and your sister and your brother
Abortion will be over,
Abortion will be done,
The cavalry is coming,
Cecile better run!”
;>) !
If every mother thinks every killing facility in Pennsylvania is a house of horrors, it may reduce the rate of killing unborn children.
But if every abortion mill is as bad as Gosnell’s, then it will not be only the deaths of children we will have to mourn when this is all over. At least two women died at his hands, and how many more are there whose names we don’t know? Those people who oversee these places will see abortion in a way that is up close and personal. At least some of them are bound to reject it as a result. And more oversight may result in more mills being shut down as they are discovered to be equally horrific. But we should not cheer for unsafe abortions as deterrents to abortion in general. That is virtually indistinguishable from hoping that people will get injured or die in getting abortions, which is not pro-life in any way.