Posted on 04/09/2011 4:39:30 AM PDT by Kaslin
I will speak tonight in Phoenix at the Arizona Right to Life dinner.
Though planned months ago, the fund raiser is occurring even as the most important debate on abortion policy in years plays out in the United States Congress.
The dinner raises money for pro-life activities in Arizona, and this year the honoree is Arizona's wonderful United States Senator Jon Kyl, long a champion of the rights of the unborn.
I suspect the senator and most of the Arizona delegation will miss the event because of the budget gridlock, and because the enormous importance of the debates within the debate. Kyl and his colleagues have been long time, consistent champions of the pro-life cause and hopefully they will help keep the Beltway GOP focused on the stakes in this battle even as the president, Joe Biden and Harry Reid triple-team the GOP's leader in the White House talks.
There has long been a strong consensus in America that taxpayer dollars should not be spent on abortion. Most Democrats have always paid lip service to this ideal, which is supported by super-majorities of Americans.
The debate over Obamacare's provisions last year revealed the true agenda of the left, however, and many so-called pro-life Democrats like Michigan Congressman Bart Stupak tossed aside their professed allegiance to life to curry favor with the president. Many believe that the intense anger at such a transparent sell-out led to Stupak's decision not to seek re-election and to the end of the ruse of there remaining any serious pro-life Democrats. The example of the ruin of Stupak's career and his reputation should be front and center for any Republican urging the Speaker to give up the effort to end the subsidy of abortion.
More than $350 million in tax dollars flows to Planned Parenthood every year, and Planned Parenthood superintends more than 300,000 abortions annually. The organization and its propagandists in and outside of the MSM argue that the tax subsidy goes to non-abortion services, but the argument fails to persuade because it is so patently absurd. The major business of Planned Parenthood is abortion, and the federal treasury subsidizes the organization to the tune of a third of its budget. This must end.
The new majority in the House voted to do just that, and the "Pence Amendment," named for its sponsor Indiana Congressman Mike Pence, passed with an overwhelming margin of 240 to 185 in February.
Now the president and Harry Reid are insisting that they will shut the federal government down rather than end the abortion subsidy.
The Commander-in-Chief and his allies in the Senate are willing to even suspend the pay of all the military to keep the abortion subsidy flowing.
It looks increasingly as though the president will sacrifice everything else in the negotiation except the Planned parenthood pay day.
There is great clarity in this moment, clarity about the president's and his party's fanatical devotion to abortion, even in the face of a shut down that is wildly unpopular and even at the expense of the military that is as esteemed as Planned Parenthood is not.
Call the Congressional switchboard at 202-225-3121 and urge your representative and senators to end this subsidy. And send a message to Speaker Boehner thanking him for refusing to sacrifice the rights of the unborn for the approval of the Manhattan-Beltway media elite.
A debate over whether government should pay to sharpen the knives of the mass murderers of innocents.
When we should be talking about why we allow mass murder of innocents in a nation dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal, endowed by their Creator with the unalienable right to life, and that the primary purpose of government is to protect the life of every innocent.
Did you even read the article?
Yes.
There is great clarity in this moment
In that he is correct. But part of that clarity concerns the Republicans, who continue to offer alternatives to the Democrat merchandising of death that do not themselves adhere to the imperative requirement of our constitution that all persons be protected, and protected equally. The Pence bill is another example. It allows government to continue to fund the murder of certain disfavored classes of human beings.
It's a big political game, on both "sides."
And meanwhile the killing of innocents, thousands per day, continues.
You couldn’t have, or otherwise you would have read that the article is about a dinner that raises money for pro-life activities in Arizona. He writes that this year’s honoree is Senator Jon Kyl, who is a long time champion of the rights of the unborn.
Aren’t the unborn those who the government should support?
But they’re not. That’s the point. It’s just more gamesmanship, more pandering to the base of money and vote support. And the killing continues.
The Pence bill does no such thing. It actually does prohibit family planning grants from being awarded to any entity that performs abortions, and for other purposes.
The bill says that the Secretary shall not provide any assistance under this title to an entity unless the entity certifies that, during the period of such assistance, the entity will not perform, and will not provide any funds to any other entity that performs, an abortion.
Barack Hussein Obama, Ambassador-At-Large, Chief Enforcement Officer and Special Assistant to Hillary Rodham Clinton, Planned Parenthood Int’l.
Not for all it doesn’t.
Hewitt still has not posted one word on his website about what he thinks about the budget deal. He has been the most outspoken critic of the GOP’s poor dealmaking ability, but I think he’ll probably be spouting the RINO company line by tomorrow. He is probably just finishing up a weekend at the GOP Re-education camp.
Almost certainly.
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