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House Subcommitte Guts Pro-Life Policy

June 20, 2007 |

A sub-committee guts a bill that would prevent funding of international abortion. It appears some like to spread the killing around to other nations. Where are the protests from the people that object to people being killed in the Iraq war? Innocents are being slaughtered by the millions and I’m still waiting for those who want to make abortion legal but rare to say something…. maybe they don’t really want it rare…. just legal.

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A House subcommittee earlier this week approved language in a State Department funding bill that would essentially gut a policy of the Bush administration prohibiting sending taxpayer funds to groups that promote or perform abortions abroad.
The vote is intended to weaken the Mexico City Policy, President Bush reinstituted in January 2001 and first put in place by President Reagan.

Its goal is to stop taxpayer funding of abortions in other nations and to prevent money from going to groups that lobby other countries to overturn their pro-life laws banning abortions.

Rep. Nita Lowey, a pro-abortion New York Democrat who is the chairman of the House Appropriations subcommittee overseeing the State Department and foreign aid, annually leads an effort to topple the pro-life policy.

She and other pro-abortion lawmakers approved language in the funding bill allowing the pro-abortion groups that have been denied the funds to receive donations of contraception at taxpayer expense to distribute in other countries.

Pro-life advocates say the language weakens the policy to the point of rendering it ineffective.

Douglas Johnson, legislative director of the National Right to Life Committee, agreed that the language guts the Mexico City Policy by allowing groups to get taxpayer funds as long as they use part of the money to promote contraception.

In other words, a group could get a grant for $100 million and use 90% of the money to promote or perform abortions and 10 percent to promote contraception and qualify under Lowey’s language.


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