Methodist Church and United Church of Christ Tell Senate to Oppose Defunding Planned Parenthood

Nearly a dozen religious organizations joined abortion advocacy groups Wednesday to urge U.S. Senators to keep funding the nation’s largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood.

United Church of Christ, Methodist, Presbyterian and Jewish groups were among the 150-plus groups that signed a letter outlining their support of the abortion chain, Obamacare and Medicaid expansions. A group called NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice also signed the letter.

“We urge you to oppose any repeal of the Affordable Care Act, attempts to change Medicaid’s open-ended funding guarantee into a block grant or per capita caps, and any attempts to defund Planned Parenthood,” the groups wrote in the letter to U.S. Senators.

They claimed that defunding Planned Parenthood would deprive patients of affordable health care, such as birth control, STD testing and treatment, cancer screenings and women’s exams.

“This loss of funds will have a disproportionate effect on poor families and people of color who make up 40 percent of Planned Parenthood patients,” they wrote. “Seventy-five percent of Planned Parenthood patients are at or below 150 percent of the federal poverty level and half of their health centers are in rural or underserved areas.”

The U.S. House passed a bill in May to defund the abortion group of hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars and repeal and replace Obamacare, but the U.S. Senate has yet to take action.

Efforts to defund the abortion chain have been growing ever since undercover videos revealed that Planned Parenthood may be illegally selling aborted babies’ body parts. Earlier this year, a Congressional investigation into the matter concluded with lawmakers recommended that Congress defund Planned Parenthood. Investigations continue.

Abortion is Planned Parenthood’s main business, and its leaders have refused to give it up to focus on providing real health care to women. In 2015, it performed 328,348 abortions on unborn babies, nearly 5,000 more than the previous year.

It also receives about half a billion taxpayer dollars every year from the federal government. Earlier this year, Planned Parenthood leaders refused an offer for an increase in tax funding if they stopped doing abortions. CEO Cecile Richards called the offer “obscene and insulting,” making it very clear that abortions – not women’s health care – are the key “service” of Planned Parenthood.

Planned Parenthood also is not performing as many non-abortion services, despite receiving increases in taxpayer funding over the past few years, according to its annual reports. From 2010 to 2014, Planned Parenthood reports showed dramatic decreases in the actual health services it provides, including breast cancer screenings, pap tests and STD tests and treatments. At the same time, its abortion numbers and taxpayer funding remained steadily high.

Legislation to defund Planned Parenthood would help ensure people have access to health care by redirecting tax dollars to community health clinics. These federally qualified health clinics serve low-income patients and outnumber Planned Parenthood facilities by more than 20 to one. They also provide much more comprehensive health care services and do not do abortions.

Pro-life advocates and Christians have been some of the leading voices calling for the government to stop taxpayer funding to Planned Parenthood, but there are a few exceptions.

Religious groups that signed the letter, along with Planned Parenthood and dozens of other pro-abortion groups, include:

United Church of Christ, Justice and Witness Ministries Union for Reform Judaism

The key organizers of the letter were the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the National Health Law Program and the National Partnership for Women & Families.

"Nearly a dozen religious organizations joined abortion advocacy groups Wednesday to urge U.S. Senators to keep funding the nation’s largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood."

FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument

Patriots, we need to repeal the ill-conceived 17th Amendment, misguided state lawmakers foolishly giving up the voices of the state legislatures in Congress by ratifying that amendment, effectively repealing the whole Constitution by doing so imo.

Sadly, these wolves disguised as sheep who are trying to work with the Senate to save unconstitutional federal abortion funding is evidence that these hypocrites don’t know the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers any better than they know the Holy Bible.

More specifically, since the states have never expressly constitutionally delegated to the corrupt feds the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for vote-winning abortion purposes, the wolves don’t understand by working with career politicians to try to keep unconstitutional, vote-winning taxing and spending for abortion alive that they are unthinkingly helping to unconstitutionally expand the powers of the already unconstitutionally big federal government.

Drain the swamp! Drain the swamp!

Remember in November ’18 !

Since Trump entered the ’16 presidential race too late for patriots to make sure that there were state sovereignty-respecting candidates on the primary ballots, patriots need make sure that such candidates are on the ’18 primary ballots so that they can be elected to support Trump in draining the unconstitutionally big federal government swamp.

Such a Congress will also be able to finish draining the swamp with respect to getting the remaining state sovereignty-ignoring, activist Supreme Court justices off of the bench.

In fact, if Justice Gorsuch turns out to be a liberal Trojan Horse then we will need 67 patriot senators to remove a House-impeached Gorsuch from office.

~~Noting that the primaries start in Iowa and New Hampshire in February ‘18, patriots need to challenge candidates for federal office in the following way.~~

While I Googled the primary information above concerning Iowa and New Hampshire, FReeper iowamark brought to my attention that the February primaries for these states apply only to presidential election years. And after doing some more scratching, since primary dates for most states for 2018 elections probably haven’t been uploaded at this time (March 14, 2017), FReepers will need to find out primary dates from sources and / or websites in their own states.

Patriots need to qualify candidates by asking them why the Founding States made the Constitution’s Section 8 of Article I; to limit (cripple) the federal government’s powers.

Patriots also need to find candidates that are knowledgeable of the Supreme Court's clarifications of the federal government’s limited powers listed below.

“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphasis added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.

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