LifeNews.com - House Considers Amendment to De-Fund Planned Parenthood

by Steven Ertelt | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com

During a terse debate in which abortion backers attacked pro-life lawmakers as wanting to threaten womens rights and health yet ignoring the ways in which the Planned Parenthood abortion business has exploited women the House of Representatives considered an amendment to de-fund the abortion business.

The House did not ultimately take a vote but rolled a vote on the amendment to Friday.

Congressman Mike Pence of Indiana led the way in fighting for the amendment to ensure that none of the federal funds in any program or department would go to the abortion business, which does more than 324,000 abortions annually and receives more than $363 million in federal, state and local taxpayer funds. . . .

. . . . The American Center for Law and Justice is one of the many pro-life groups that heavily lobbied members of Congress before the vote to support the amendment.

"Theres no better place to begin the budget cutting process, than putting a stop to funding Planned Parenthood," said Jay Sekulow, the groups chief counsel, in comment to LifeNews.com. "Its stunning that Planned Parenthood receives more than $360 million dollars a year in federal taxpayer funds."

By receiving this windfall of federal funds, Planned Parenthood is able to free-up other resources enabling them to continue to promote and expand their pro-abortion agenda.  The approval of the Pence Amendment in the House is long overdue and sends a strong message American taxpayers are no longer willing to subsidize the nations largest abortion provider, he said. . . .

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