DC Taxpayer Funded Abortions

President Obama is pursuing a step by step strategy to expand access to abortion.  Article 1 of the US Constitution says that Congress holds complete legislative authority over the District of Columbia.  That is why the entire budget for D.C. including revenues generated by local sources, must be appropriated by Congress through an annual appropriations bill.  

For many years, the D.C. Appropriations Bill has contained a provision to prevent the use of funds for abortions (except to save the life of the mother or in cases of rape and incest), the White House Budget released yesterday asks Congress to repeal the ban and replace it.
 
"If Congress goes along with the Obama proposal, the result will be tax funding of several thousand elected abortions annually.  Any member of Congress who votes for a bill that contains the White House budget proposal is, in reality, voting for tax funded abortions on demand with Congressional appropriated funds," stated Douglas Johnson, Legislative Director for National Right to Life.  He further stated, "the abortion industries own studies suggest that many thousands of residents in the nations capitol are alive today because the abortion funding ban that President Obama now proposes to repeal.  Today's White House action is one more evidence that President Obama is trying to pull off a massive policy scam - He generates a smoke screen of soothing rhetoric about seeking common ground and abortion reduction, while step by step advancing concrete policies that will substantially increase the number of abortions - and pay for abortion on demand with everyone's tax dollar."

Barack Obama met with Planned Parenthood in 21007 and promised that mandatory abortion coverage would be "at the center, the heart of" his health care reform legislation.

  

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