Pro-Life Groups Cheer Upcoming Probe of Planned Parenthood

An interesting story from http://www.lifenews.com/ about Planned Parenthood. This follows this post about ending the GLBT agenda in California's schools - PUBLIC and PRIVATE!  For more that you can do to get involved click  HERE and you can also get a very interesting book HERE!

Pro-Life Groups Cheer Upcoming Probe of Planned Parenthood


Leading pro-life groups applauded the news LifeNews first reported today that a congressional subcommittee will investigate the alleged financial impropriety and potential coverup of criminal activities at Planned Parenthood abortion clinics.



In a September 15 letter LifeNews.com obtained, Rep. Cliff Stearns, a Florida Republican who is the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Investigations, writes to Cecile Richards, the president of Planned Parenthood. The letter requests any information related to improper billing related to federally-funded programs, proof that federal funds are not being improperly used to pay for abortions by PPFA or its affiliates, audits by state agencies of any Planned Parenthood affiliate, and documentation of how many affiliates currently receive Title X family planning funding.



Live Action is the pro-life organization most responsible for bringing to light the problems of covering up alleged cases of sexual abuse and Lila Rose’s videos capturing Planned Parenthood employees aiding and abetting sex traffickers and covering up child rape and abuse were the catalysts in Congress calling for this investigation, she told LifeNews in response.



“We applaud Congress’s first concrete steps to investigate Planned Parenthood, the biggest abortion business in the nation,” Rose said. “Last February, the Live Action team released undercover videos showing seven Planned Parenthood clinics aiding and abetting the sex trafficking of children. In the wake of the videos, the House of Representatives voted to defund the abortion giant of the over $360 million they receive in federal funds. This step by Rep. Stearns (R-FL) to further investigate Planned Parenthood’s abusive and lawless activities is essential to protecting victims of abuse, our young girls, and our unborn brothers and sisters.” http://www.lifenews.com/2011/09/27/pro-life-groups-cheer-upcoming-probe-of-planned-parenthood

Battle for Washington: Pro-Life Coalition Giving Last Full Measure on Health Care

An interesting story from www.lifesitenews.com about the latest on federal abortion funding in Obamacare. This follows this post about attempts this from being placed in Obamacare. This follows this previous post about what you can do to influence this debate. For more interesting stories like this click here to follow this blog.

Battle for Washington: Pro-Life Coalition Giving Last Full Measure on Health Care


By Peter J. Smith
WASHINGTON, D.C., March 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) –
With what may be the final onslaught of the health care bill coming this weekend, pro-life advocates are giving the last full measure in a battle to defeat the legislation, which would allow federal dollars to subsidize abortion coverage and Planned Parenthood to tap into billions of dollars set aside for community health providers. The latest vote predictions say passage of President Barack Obama’s health care reform is too close to call, and pro-life advocates have put their utmost into working – and praying – to hold together a bipartisan pro-life coalition against health care reform in the House of Representatives. The effort itself could become their finest hour in the health care saga. Americans United for Life has unrolled an aggressive “Life Counts” campaign targeting approximately 40-41 Democrats - whose votes together will be critical to defeating ObamaCare - through print ads, text messages, live phone calls, email-blasts, and the Internet.
Congressmen on Capitol Hill are expected to vote on health care reform before Obama leaves for Indonesia on Sunday, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) are pushing representatives hard to line up behind a vote for the Senate health care bill.
“There’s a lot of pressure on these folks here in Washington,” said AUL’s Vice President for Communications, Matthew Faraci.
“The only voice that is equal to what they are hearing here in Washington is their constituents back home. Their constituents back home are against this bill, and they don’t want to see taxpayer funding for abortion, so we are reaching directly to those constituents.”
Faraci said that pro-life advocates have “got to go to the district office” in order to have the most influence of their Congressman.
“That is what it is all about,” he told LSN, relating his own experience on Capitol Hill. “I think it is valid to send an email, make a phone call, send a fax, all those things I think are very good, but none of those things has the impact of a personal visit.”
The district office director, Faraci explained, will call and report to a member of Congress the number of constituents that made personal visits to his office. The fact that an individual took the time to show up, Faraci said, shows that he feels “very, very strongly” about the issue, and reminds a Congressman that constituents like that could put him out of a job come November. The National Right to Life Committee emphasized in a recent action alert that timing is of the essence to Pelosi, who is trying to force a vote by this weekend. “Most political observers agree that if Speaker Pelosi does not succeed in ramming the Senate bill through the House by the time Congress goes into recess for Easter on March 26, the bill is effectively dead," stated NRLC. "Whether she succeeds or not depends on what House members hear from their constituents during the next two weeks."
AUL has launched print ads running in the newspapers of Congressmen’s home districts, featuring a picture of two hands cradling a baby, and addressing the specific Congressman to say: “When it comes to voting for health reform, we know you have your hands full.”
The ad informs readers, “The health care bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives prevents taxpayer-funded abortion. The U.S. Senate health care bill — on the other hand — does allow your tax dollars to pay for abortion. Those are stark differences with serious consequences.” The first salvo of ads targets the districts of House Representatives Jerry F. Costello (D- Illinois); Joe Donnelly (D-Indiana), Baron P. Hill (D-Indiana), Marcy Kaptur of (D-Ohio), Charles Wilson (D-Ohio), Earl Pomeroy (D-North Dakota), Alan B. Mollohan (D-West Virginia), Nick Rahall of (D-West Virginia). Susan B. Anthony List has also entered the fray, revealing poll data from 19 key Democratic districts that show their voters are strongly opposed – between 60 to 80 percent – to any federal subsidies that would fund abortion. The polls also showed that between 45 – 65 percent of voters in their respective districts would be “less likely” to vote for them, if health care legislation passed that allowed federal dollars to end up subsidizing abortions.
Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, also issued an urgent fax alert to priests and deacons nationwide on Monday urging them to join with Catholic parishioners in contacting their Congressmen to express opposition to the health care bill.
"The lives of millions of unborn children depend on all of us taking action now," said Fr. Pavone.
"The Senate version of the health care bill would expand access to abortion like never before in history. With a decisive vote possible this week in the House, there is no time to waste."
Read The Hill for the latest projected health care whip count.

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Dems to Stupak: More Abortions = Fewer Babies = Lower Gov' t Costs
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Stupak: Waxman 'Wants to Pay for Abortions,' White House Continues to Deny

An interesting story from www.lifesitenews.com about the attempt to prevent the federal funding of abortion in Obamacare. This follows this previous post about what you can do to influence this debate. For more interesting stories like this click here to follow this blog.

Stupak: Waxman 'Wants to Pay for Abortions,' White House Continues to Deny
Dem Leaders Pin Hopes on Thursday Health Reform Vote


By Kathleen Gilbert
WASHINGTON, DC, (LifeSiteNews.com) -
As members of the Obama administration continue to deny that the Senate health bill contains funding for abortion, the leader of the pro-life House Democrats has asserted once more that, in private conversation, leaders of the party have admitted that the bill is intended to fund abortion.
Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) described to FOX News last week a spat he says he had with Rep. Henry Waxman, the Democrat Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, over Stupak's proposed abortion funding ban.
"I gave [Waxman] the language. He came back a little while later and said, 'But we want to pay for abortions,'" said Stupak. "I said, 'Mr. Chairman, that's - we disagree. We don't do it now, we're not going to start.'
Stupak said Waxman replied, "But we think we should."
"I said, 'Well, I'm sorry but the House has spoken. We had that debate. We won 240-190. You forced the vote, a vote we won fair and square and we're not gonna - this is what it is," said Stupak. "If you want to move health care keep current law.'"
However, while Democrat leaders continue to block Stupak's pro-life provision - which is modeled after the Hyde amendment - they simultaneously claim that the legislation is subject to the existing Hyde amendment anyway, a claim that has been repeatedly debunked by the National Right to Life Committee and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
The New York Times published Sunday what it claimed was an "internal Health and Human Services memo" insisting that the Hyde amendment, which bans abortion funding except in cases if rape or incest, would apply.
"The President and Secretary Sebelius have repeatedly stated their strong commitment to ensuring that health insurance reform does not change the status quo on abortion policy," stated the memo. "In the health insurance reform legislation pending in Congress, the status quo is maintained: There is no federal funding for abortions except in cases of rape or incest, or where the life of the woman would be endangered."
Although it is generally believed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has not yet switched enough "no" votes to pass the measure, the White House is hoping to push the bill through the House by March 18. Pelosi has continued to express confidence that Democrats are "on the verge of making history."
Because a final health vote may be imminent, the National Right to Life Committee has sent out a legislative action alert urging pro-lifers to contact legislators once more to oppose the bill.