Posted on 01/07/2011 1:57:08 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Republican Mike Pence Introduces Bill to Defund Planned Parenthood and Other Abortion Providers That Receive Taxpayer Dollars Friday, January 07, 2011 By Penny Starr
(CNSNews.com) – Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) has introduced a bill in the House of Representatives that would prohibit abortion providers from receiving federal funds through Title X of the Public Health Service Act, including Planned Parenthood, which received more than $360 million in government grants and contracts in Fiscal Year 2008-2009.
“The largest abortion provider in America should not also be the largest recipient of federal funding under Title X,” Pence said from the House floor when he introduced the Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act today, Jan. 7.
“Federal funding should reflect the priorities and the values of the majority of the American people,” Pence said. “Whatever people think about abortion across this country since Roe versus Wade, survey after survey has shown that an overwhelming majority of Americans oppose the use of taxpayer dollars to support, subsidize, or promote abortion at home or abroad.”
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The thinking is part politics and part fiduciary. Politics: Get the ‘Rats on record, Senate/Prez, of being for public-funded fetus killing. Then, get the job done anyway, with omissions from any budget bills that would have otherwise funded them.
If there is any question about saying ‘Rats, as opposed to ‘rats, I’m just trying to be nice and respectful to the marxists label by capitalizing. Using a small ‘r would be dis-respectful, IMHO, and I would never do that.
The Dems are already on the record, all over the place, for supporting abortion. Everyone already knows it.
Apparently Representative Pence isn’t nearly as clever as his detractors here at Free Republic; either that or he actually has a strategy.
Yes, I did not state what i meant properly - Getting them on record in the current thread of abortion defunding. Clearly, they for the most part OWN the abortion industry, public and private.
So sorry I am a substance over style kind of gal :)
Too bad that republicans didn’t find time from their slopping and gorging at the public trough to pursue conservative policies when they had majorities in congress and a republican president.
Bills like this are nice gestures now but we all know they won’t make it out of the Senate.
Keep it rolling, GOP!
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