Halting Taxpayer-Funded Welfare For Killers of the Unborn

   The disastrous 1973 Supreme Court decision, Roe v. Wade thrust abortion-on-demand upon the nation, creating a massive billion dollar killing industry.

   But that wasn't enough for the abortionists. They also want taxpayers to pay for it.

   Every chance the abortion industry gets, it attempts to loot federal tax dollars to fund the killing of unborn children.

   Whether it is spending taxpayer money to fund abortions through Medicaid, health plans for federal employees, military personnel, women in federal prisons, or the United Nations Population Fund to support coercive abortions abroad, there seems to be no end to the abortion industry's thirst for tax dollars.

Pro-Lifers' Diligence and Activism Has Paid Off

   National Pro-Life Alliance members have worked diligently to prevent tax dollars from being spent on abortions, flooding Capitol Hill with letters, phone calls, petitions, action-grams and postcards. Along with other pro-life Americans, Alliance members have successfully halted numerous recent attempts at funding the abortion industry, including:

• April 2005, pro-abortion Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) introduced an amendment that would end President Bush's "Mexico City Policy" forbiding tax dollars to be distributed to overseas entities that perform or promote abortions. The amendment passed 52-46, but the offending language was stripped from the bill in committee before being signed by the President.

• May 2006, pro-life activism helped defeat a measure to fund abortion on overseas military bases.

• July 2002, President George W. Bush refused $34 million of congressionally approved funding to the United Nations Population Fund (UNPF), money that would have been used to fund coercive abortions in Communist China.

Even with Strong Public Opposition, Pro-Abortion Politicians Seek Massive Taxpayer-Funded Subsidies for Abortion

   Unfortunately, the pressure to slip in taxpayer-funded abortions never ends.

   With every new federal budget comes a barrage of renewed attempts to fund the abortion industry.

   One of the first bills introduced in the new Democrat-controlled Congress was the grossly misnamed "Prevention First Act" [S. 21 / H.R. 819]. Knowing full well that taxpayer-funded abortion is a huge political liability, pro-abortion forces in Congress have attempted to hoodwink voters by falsly claiming that this legislation is meant to prevent abortions.

   In reality, this bill is nothing more than a shameful attempt to hand over a blank check to abortion providers like Planned Parenthood.

   Among the outrageous provisions of the bill are:

• An increase in funding under Title X, raising the taxpayers' tab to $700 MILLION in direct funding for abortion providers like Planned Parenthood in 2008 alone.

• Direct taxpayer funding to pay for abortions obtained by Medicaid recipients.

• Mandate that insurance companies cover abortion procedures, thus forcing policyholders to directly fund the killing of the unborn.

• Penalization of doctors who follow their conscience and refuse to prescribe abortive drugs.

• A $10 MILLION marketing campaign to promote the newest line of deadly abortive drugs paid for by taxpayers.

   While its proponents falsely claim that the bill would prevent abortions, it specifically prohibits funding for programs that promote abstinence among teenagers.

   Thus, the only such programs that would be permitted to receive federal funds are the variety promulgated by Planned Parenthood, which encourage and glamorize sex among teens. Such sex education increases promiscuity and, therefore, teen abortions.

   NPLA members are mobilizing to defeat the so-called "Prevention First Act" and all other attempts to fund abortion with tax dollars.

Planned Parenthood has Already Received Over Two and a Half Billion Dollars From Taxpayers and Now Demands More    

   Abortion providers such as Planned Parenthood continue to receive millions of tax dollars every year under Title X, which subsidizes their overhead for promoting abortion as they divert more and more resources towards the killing of the unborn.

   From the 105th through the 107th Congress, Planned Parenthood abortion services generated a net profit of $300 million. All the while, it cut back non-abortion related programs like adoption, breast cancer screening and infertility treatment.

   Yet taxpayer funds doubled to so-called "family planning" programs, of which Planned Parenthood is a major beneficiary.

   From the 100th through the 107th Congress, Planned Parenthood directly received almost two and a half BILLION dollars (or 30% of its entire income) from tax dollars under Title X.

   National Pro-Life Alliance members are dedicated to eliminating all taxpayer funding of abortion providers. Armed with the latest information, they will remain vigilant in order to ensure that their tax dollars are not used to fund the killing of unborn children.

Click here to download S. 21, the Senate version of the deceptively named "Prevention First Act" (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)

Click here to download H.R. 819, the House version of the deceptively named "Prevention First Act" (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)

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