Action Alert: Tell Congress to De-Fund Planned Parenthood

An interesting story from www.LifeNews.com about defunding Planned Parenthood. This follows this post about the Senate and pro-Life votes.  For more that you can do to get involved click  HERE and you can also get a very interesting book HERE!

Action Alert: Tell Congress to De-Fund Planned Parenthood



This week, several leading pro-life organizations are calling on Congress to keep pressing forward with efforts to de-fund the $1 billion-dollar Planned Parenthood abortion business, which receives $363 million from federal, state and local government.



http://www.lifenews.com/  is proud to join forces with dozens of pro-life groups for this weekly promotional and we're delighted to work with our friends at the Susan B Anthony List to sponsor this action alert urging your calls on Monday. Please read the following message and take action on Monday by flooding Congress with calls!



As you know, the House of Representatives voted for the Pence Amendment in a bill providing long-term funding for the federal government. However, Senate Democrats rejected the legislation and Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid indicated he would reject any House Republican funding bill that yanks Planned Parenthood funding -- saying not only no, but "hell no."



This week, pro-life groups are looking to you to make the difference. We need to encourage the pro-life advocates in the House who have already voted for the Pence Amendment by thanking them and telling them to press forward and insist that Senate Democrats accept a funding bill that de-funds Planned Parenthood. We also need you to contact members of the Senate and insist that they support a bill that removes Federal funding from Planned Parenthood.



With statistics showing Planned Parenthood is the biggest abortion business in the nation and that it provides only abortion to almost every pregnant woman who walks in its door, and with videos showing it looking the other way as helpless sexually-trafficked young girls are subjected to abortions after being victimized -- there's no reason to continue funding this organization.



The buzz on Capitol Hill is that pro-life lawmakers are growing tired of short-term Continuing Resolution bills and are ready to dig in and fight hard for a long-term Continuing Resolution bill that completely defunds Planned Parenthood – which means the next three weeks are the most critical yet in this fight. This week is an especially good week to contact members of Congress who are in their districts as the House will be on Recess. From talking with Congressional members, we know that one call into a district office of a member of the House or Senate can be enough to raise concern and is weighted higher than a call into their Washington, D.C. offices.



Here's what we need you to do:



1. Locate the number and call the district offices of your House and Senate members and urge them to support de-funding Planned Parenthood in the a long-term continuing resolution (budget) bill. You can find district office information at the main http://www.house.gov/ or http://www.senate.gov/ web site linking to your elected officials or by going to http://www.exposeplannedparenthood.com/.



2. Pass this action alert on to every pro-life person you know and urge them to join you this week in calling their elected officials.



3) Make a donation today online to support http://www.lifenews.com/. We keep nearly 500,000 pro-life advocates informed each and every week with the latest pro-life news and information on battles like this. We can't do it without you.



Thank you for your help and I look forward to hearing how you are jamming the phone lines to demand de-funding Planned Parenthood. Together we can do it!



For Their Lives,

Steven Ertelt