More Taxpayer Funds For Planned Parenthood?

A showdown in a House subcommittee looms this week.  The issue:  should Planned Parenthood get more taxpayer funds?

On Thursday of this week, a number of amendments will go before various subcommittees of the larger Appropriations Committee in the House of Representatives in Washington, DC. A vast majority of the time, these renewals of language or increases in funding go unnoticed by the public simply because of the route they take.

The fact is much of the work that takes place in subcommittees goes on unnoticed and receives little attention from the news media and the public.  That is why this week, especially Thursday, is so important. For the last 12 years, the former pro-life majority in the House has protected amendments like the Dickey-Wicker language that prohibits federal funding for harmful human embryonic stem cell research. In recent years, the pro-life majority has kept the Title X funding level at $283 million per year.

Yet with the sea change that happened in November, what has been taken for granted in the past 6 Congresses is now in jeopardy. With no pro-life majority to protect the Dickey-Wicker language, the pro-abortion members of the Labor, HHS and Education subcommittee can simply choose not to renew the language, opening the door for your tax dollars to be used for the destruction of human embryos in the name of research.

And with no pro-life majority to block an increase in funding, Planned Parenthood has asked that $100 million dollars more be added to Title X funding for the next fiscal years.  And there's growing concern that there's a good chance Planned Parenthood's request will be granted. 

At the American Center for Law and Justice, our Government Affairs team is working to let members of the Labor, HHS and Education subcommittee know that additional funding for Planned Parenthood is unacceptable.  We are sending a strong message to the House and if you'd like to add your name to this effort, you can do so simply by adding your name to the ACLJ Petition to Stop Title X Funding Increase.  Add your name here.

Please stay tuned to our daily radio broadcast, Jay Sekulow Live!, for updates and additional information as this week unfolds.