Trump ended US abortion funding of
foreign providers in his Executive Order on 1/23/17. But there is news of a Bill that would defund
abortion for US providers. See articles below:
Pro-Life Congresswoman Introduces Bill to Defund Planned Parenthood Abortion Biz, by Steven Ertelt, 1/6/17, Lifenews.com
Congress
approved legislation to defund the Planned Parenthood abortion business last
year only to see pro-abortion President Barack Obama veto it. Today, a leading
pro-life member of the House of Representatives introduced a bill to yank
taxpayer funding from the nation’s biggest abortion company.
This week a congressional investigation into the Planned
Parenthood abortion business over its sales of body parts of aborted baby parts
concluded. Lawmakers are suggesting that Congress defund the
abortion company as a result of the problematic actions they uncovered.
Pro-life Congresswoman Diane Black, a
registered nurse and member of the recently concluded Select Investigative
Panel on Infant Lives, reintroduced H.R. 354 today – the Defund Planned Parenthood Act of 2017.
The legislation would prioritize
preventive healthcare over elective abortion by placing a one year moratorium
on all federal funding for Planned Parenthood, including its affiliates and
associated clinics, until such time as Planned Parenthood certifies that it
will not perform elective abortions or give funding to entities that do. The
bill was introduced with the support of 127 cosponsors.
The legislation would instead redirect
federal dollars to the more than 13,500 community health centers nationwide
that provide a broader range of healthcare services to women (e.g., mammograms)
and do not perform abortions. The bill provides $235 million in funding for community health
centers, in addition to the funding that would be reallocated from Planned
Parenthood.
Black released the following statement:
“Planned Parenthood’s grand deception is quickly collapsing. For too long, this
organization has cashed in on our tax dollars – to the tune of more than $550 million a year – all while performing more
than 320,000 abortions during the same length of time.
Abortion is not healthcare, yet it is
the centerpiece of Planned Parenthood’s mission. What’s more, legitimate
questions persist about Planned Parenthood’s compliance with federal law and
regulatory guidelines, as evidenced by the work of our Select Investigative
Panel on Infant Lives and the Senate Judiciary Committee’s recent decision to
refer Planned Parenthood to both the Department of Justice and the FBI,” said
Congressman Diane Black. “Our unified pro-life government is proof that
Americans have rejected Planned Parenthood’s callous extremism. Now, it is our
time to act. Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards should consider the
introduction of this bill as her notice: the days of her organization receiving
a free ride from taxpayers and a blind eye from Washington are coming to an
end.”
Black added, “From my years on the
frontlines of the pro-life movement, I know the scare tactics that Planned
Parenthood will use when speaking about this bill, so let me be very clear: My
legislation does not cut a single dime from public health funding. In fact,
this bill provides an additional $235 million for our nation’s community health
centers. For Planned Parenthood or others to claim that our legislation blocks
access to preventive care is an outright lie. This is about promoting true
women’s healthcare over elective abortion and honoring the conscience rights of
American taxpayers who don’t want their tax dollars used to fund a
scandal-ridden abortion enterprise.”
Leading pro-life groups that also
support the reconciliation bill to de-fund Planned Parenthood include Susan B.
Anthony List, National Right to Life, Family Research Council, March for Life,
Concerned Women for America, Students for Life, Priests for Life, Operation
Rescue, and American Life League, among others.
A new
Congressional report finds that de-funding the Planned Parenthood abortion
business — even for one year — would save “several thousand” unborn babies from
the nightmare of abortion. The report also finds de-funding Planned
Parenthood would save the federal government $235 million.
The expose’ videos catching Planned
Parenthood officials selling the body parts of aborted babies have shocked the
nation. Here is a list of all eleven:
·
In the first video: Dr. Deborah Nucatola
of Planned Parenthood commented on baby-crushing: “We’ve been very good at
getting heart, lung, liver, because we know that, so I’m not gonna crush that
part, I’m gonna basically crush below, I’m gonna crush above, and I’m gonna see
if I can get it all intact.”
·
In the second video: Planned Parenthood’s
Dr. Mary Gatter joked, “I want a Lamborghini” as she negotiated the best price
for baby parts.
·
In the third video: Holly O’Donnell, a
former Stem Express employee who worked inside a Planned Parenthood clinic,
detailed first-hand the unspeakable atrocities and how she fainted in horror
over handling baby legs.
·
In the fourth video: Planned Parenthood’s
Dr. Savita Ginde stated, “We don’t want to do just a flat-fee (per baby) of
like, $200. A per-item thing works a little better, just because we can see how
much we can get out of it.” She also laughed while looking at a plate of fetal kidneys
that were “good to go.”
·
In the fifth video: Melissa Farrell of
Planned Parenthood-Gulf Coast in Houston boasted of Planned Parenthood’s skill
in obtaining “intact fetal cadavers” and how her “research” department
“contributes so much to the bottom line of our organization here, you know
we’re one of the largest affiliates, our Research Department is the largest in
the United States.”
·
In the sixth video: Holly O’Donnell described technicians taking
fetal parts without patient consent: “There were times when they would just
take what they wanted. And these mothers don’t know. And there’s no way they
would know.”
·
In the seventh and perhaps most disturbing video: Holly O’Donnell
described the harvesting, or “procurement,” of organs from a nearly intact
late-term fetus aborted at Planned Parenthood Mar Monte’s Alameda clinic in San
Jose, CA. “‘You want to see something kind of cool,’” O’Donnell says her
supervisor asked her. “And she just taps the heart, and it starts beating. And
I’m sitting here and I’m looking at this fetus, and its heart is beating, and I
don’t know what to think.”
·
In the eighth video: StemExpress CEO Cate
Dyer admits Planned Parenthood sells “a lot of” fully intact aborted babies.
·
The ninth video: catches a Planned Parenthood
medical director discussing how the abortion company sells fully intact aborted
babies — including one who “just fell out” of the womb.
·
The 10th video: catches the nation’s
biggest abortion business selling specific body parts — including the heart,
eyes and “gonads” of unborn babies.The video also shows the shocking ways in
which Planned Parenthood officials admit that they are breaking federal law by
selling aborted baby body parts for profit.
·
Unreleased Videos: Unreleased videos
from CMP show Deb Vanderhei of Planned Parenthood caught on tape talking about
how Planned Parenthood abortion business affiliates may “want to increase
revenue [from selling baby parts] but we can’t stop them…” Another video has a
woman talking about the “financial incentives” of selling aborted baby body
parts.
·
The 11th
video: catches a texas Planned Parenthood abortionist
planning to sell the intact heads of aborted babies for research. Amna Dermish
is caught on tape describing an illegal partial-birth abortion procedure to
terminate living, late-term unborn babies which she hopes will yield intact
fetal heads for brain harvesting.
The full,
unedited videos have confirmed that
revelations that some aborted baby remains sold by Planned Parenthood go to
biotech companies for the purpose of creating “humanized” mice.
Meanwhile, Planned Parenthood has been exposed as having sold
body parts from aborted babies for as much as 15 years.
http://www.lifenews.com/2015/08/07/planned-parenthood-has-been-selling-body-parts-from-aborted-babies-for-at-least-15-years/
Defunding Abortion
By Tom Wildmon, 1/22/17
The U.S. House of
Representatives is expected to vote soon, likely tomorrow, on a pro-life bill
titled No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure
Act of 2017 (H.R. 7). Text of the bill is available here.
Take action now!
Congress will likely vote on this bill tomorrow. They need to hear from you
now.
The bill seeks to do
three things:
Make the Hyde Amendment
(federal funding of abortion) and other current abortion funding prohibitions
permanent and government-wide; (The Hyde Amendment has historically been
attached to appropriation bills in the past, but this bill will codify/write
the Hyde Amendment into law. Democrats oppose the Hyde Amendment and want to
use your tax dollars to fund abortion. This bill will help prevent that.)
Ensure that the
Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare, faithfully conforms to the
Hyde Amendment while Congress works to repeal and replace the ACA;
Ensure full disclosure,
transparency, and the prominent display of the extent to which any health
insurance plan on the healthcare exchange funds abortion.
Send your representative
an email now to vote FOR H.R. 7, the "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion
Act" this week!
Abortion is not
healthcare nor should government be subsidizing abortion. Your congressional
representative in Washington needs to hear from you now!
Tim Wildmon, President American
Family Association
Congress
to consider permanently banning taxpayer funding for abortion this week, by Cassy Fiano, 1/22/17
This week, Congress will begin discussing
H.R. 7, the No Taxpayer
Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act of 2017. This
bill would effectively make the Hyde Amendment permanent. A similar bill passed
the House in 2015, but failed to pass the Senate.
The bill would ban
federal funding of abortions, as well federal funding for health benefits plans
that cover abortions. It would also ban federal facilities and federal
employees from providing abortions. Nothing in the bill would prevent
non-federal organizations from providing funding or coverage for abortion.
During the presidential
campaign, Donald Trump vowed to end
taxpayer funding of abortion by making the Hyde Amendment permanent.
The Hyde Amendment is a provisional rider that has been added to an
appropriations bill every year since 1976. With this move, banning taxpayer
funding for abortion would be its own, permanent, law. And while Democrats went
the opposite direction — putting the
overturning of Hyde into their official platform — they were opposed by pro-life party
members. Planned Parenthood has also lobbied to have Hyde overturned.
The truth is, Americans
favor ending taxpayer funding for abortion, including the majority of
low-income Americans. Altogether, roughly 7 out of 10 Americans do not want taxpayer
dollars going towards abortion,
so this bill is clearly something that the people want.
While this bill is a
good step forward, it does not completely ban all federal funding for abortion; there
are exceptions in cases of rape or incest, and if the life of the mother is in
danger. The problem with these exceptions is that they do not make
abortion acceptable in any way. A child who is conceived in
incest did nothing wrong and does not deserve a death sentence because of
her parents’ mistakes; the answer to healing from rape is not more
violence. Live Action President Lila Rose addressed this very issue in a debate
on CNN with NARAL President Ilyse Hogue:
The other exception, that
abortion can be federally funded if the life of the mother is at risk, is a
popular talking point particularly from pro-abortion activists, but the reality
is,
abortion
is never medically necessary to
save a mother’s life. Over 1,000 medical experts testified to this fact, as did
Dr. Anthony Levatino, a former abortionist, in the following video:
Live Action President
Lila Rose released a statement praising Congress and the Trump administration
for making pro-life legislation a priority:
The House’s timing for this bill at the beginning of President-elect
Trump’s term shows that life-affirming legislation is getting the priority it
deserves after eight years of hitting a brick wall on President Obama’s
desk.
Two million Americans are alive today because of the Hyde Amendment,
which is why it not only needs to be made permanent law, but also expanded. As
it exists today, Hyde still doesn’t protect our most vulnerable children,
including those conceived in rape or incest. It also perpetuates the deadly
myth that abortion – the direct killing of a child – is a medical treatment for
the health challenges a mother may face.
When compared with highway, workplace, and child safety laws, Hyde is one
of the most successful life-saving policies in U.S. history, which is why it’s
so despicable that Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry repeatedly
lobby against it.
Expanding Hyde and putting it into law would be a good first step. It
still won’t prevent Planned Parenthood from getting over half a billion dollars
a year from taxpayers to keep its doors open and abort over 320,000 children
each year.
That’s why I look forward to Congress also stripping taxpayer funding
from Planned Parenthood and redirecting it to thousands of community health
centers instead.
http://liveactionnews.org/congress-to-consider-permanently-banning-taxpayer-funding-for-abortion-this-week/
Comments
The news
media hasn’t covered HR 7, the Bill to defund Planned Parenthood. Something is
up.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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