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Posted on 07/21/2007 9:28:58 AM PDT by wagglebee
There is a movement afoot to strip Planned Parenthood of millions of annual taxpayer dollars. One of the leaders in this effort is Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., whom I mentioned last week as being a chief cog in the effort to halt activation of the Fairness Doctrine, which Democrats hope to use to stifle conservative talk radio.
Rep. Pence, a rising star in the Republican Party, this week offered an amendment to the House appropriations bill (H.R. 3043) that funds the Departments of Labor and Health and Human Services, to prohibit taxpayer dollars from funding Planned Parenthood's abortion efforts.
Sadly, the amendment was defeated, 189-231.
I'm praying that down the road, we will be able to stop Planned Parenthood from receiving our tax dollars while performing a quarter of a million abortions annually.
Planned Parenthood is America's leading abortion provider and receives a staggering $65 million annually through Title X, the domestic family planning program.
The present bill would actually increase Title X funds to $311 million and would mean approximately a $15 million increase in funds going to Planned Parenthood, reports American Life League, which has for years been at the forefront of the battle to halt funds going to Planned Parenthood. American Life League President Judie Brown stood shoulder to shoulder with my father in many pro-life battles through the years.
"Last year alone, according to Planned Parenthood's own annual report, it received more than a third of its nearly $1 billion budget from government grants and contracts," said Rep. Pence. "And again, according to its own annual report, Planned Parenthood performed more than a quarter of a million abortions last year alone."
He says it is wrong to ask millions of pro-life Americans to fund the leading abortion provider in the United States.
I agree.
Mr. Pence also points to news reports that indicate allegations of serious legal violations by Planned Parenthood clinics, including false reporting of information, dissemination of misleading advice and some of the organization's counselors failing to report cases of sexual abuse and statutory rape.
We must continue this battle.
Planned Parenthood did receive bad news recently with the passage of a new law, signed by Missouri's governor, that keeps the organization out of the state's schools.
Finally, I want to remind readers about the anti-Christian tactics Planned Parenthood has utilized. At Christmas, the organization has sent out "holiday cards" bearing the idiom, "Choice on Earth," a direct reference to the biblical phrase "Peace on Earth," which was used to describe the miraculous arrival of Jesus Christ in human form.
Further, the Rev. Mark Bigelow, pastor of the Congregational Church of Huntington in Centerport, N.Y., and a member of the Clergy Advisory Board for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, defending this phrase, wrote in a letter to Bill O'Reilly, host of the Fox News Channel's "The O'Reilly Factor": "… one thing I know from the Bible is that Jesus was not against women having a choice in continuing a pregnancy." That's an astounding statement. I urge every pastor to ensure that their congregations know this is the legacy of Planned Parenthood.
I wonder if Rev. Bigelow ever read Psalm 139:13 ("You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother's womb"). This verse wonderfully illustrates that Christ is active in our lives from our very beginnings. Verse 14 continues: "I am fearfully and wonderfully made." We are indeed living wonders, touched by God from the onset of our existence. The God of the Bible would certainly not condone abortion!
I believe it is an offense of our government to require Christians who embrace this Scripture to be compelled to fund an organization that is so reckless with precious life.
The defunding amendment has failed. But in its stoppage, we have seen a brighter spotlight aimed at Planned Parenthood – and we have seen a pro-life hero arising in Rep. Mike Pence.
I urge readers to visit Rep. Pence's website and drop him a note of thanks and encouragement as he champions the rights of the unborn in our nation.
Please also continually pray that our nation will elect leaders who will stand against the powerful abortion industry so we can turn back the modern holocaust of the unborn in America.
How does the left come up with this garbage?
Pro-Life Ping
Ping
The Left will say anything, do anything, enact anything to further degrade our culture. Lie, cheat and steal? No problem! They want to ensure that this country goes down the tubes into their own cultural wasteland.
Hmmm...tax-payer funded, institutionalized murder!
Good luck, and I hope he succeeds, but I wouldn’t hold my breath. There’s an organization that’s been around at least as far back as the early 90’s, maybe even longer, called STOPP, or Stop Planned Parenthood. Jim Sedlak was the national director, I don’t know if he still is. Their goal has been to try to stop federal funding and to basically run them out of town and raise public awareness of the evil of this organization. They have had some successes, but not enough unfortunately. Of course, we can’t stop our efforts, or they will have won.
Pro-life bump.
“Planned Parenthood is America’s leading abortion provider and receives a staggering $65 million annually through Title X, the domestic family planning program.”
After 20 years of working to elect pro-life republicans, ask your self
what is wrong with this picture. What good did having control of
all 3 branches do? We still give millions to the million pound gorilla
killing machine!
They fully funded the CPB.
Excuse my ignorance, but what exactly is CPB?
Corp for Public Broadcasting [PBS, NPR]
.
Let’s break that down logically: Jesus, who said, “Love your neighbor as yourself” agreed that it was okay for one human being to dismember and kill another human being?
If that isn’t simple enough, X says A must do Y to another A, yet also said, or believed that A must NOT do Y to another A.
Okay...
I guess this "Reverend"'s mind and eyes skipped over that little thing about the millstone and being tossed into the sea.
Happy drownings.
>> Rev. Mark Bigelow, pastor ... and a member of the Clergy Advisory Board for the Planned Parenthood ...
Where do you go with crap like this?
BUMP!
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