GOP's Dirty Dozen

Hear Their Cry

Are They Just Dupes or Intentional Appeasers?

Last week, the Family Research Council noted in one of their informational emails that “12 Republicans, led by Rep. Mark Kirk (Ill.), quietly sent a letter to President Bush asking him to keep the current Title X regulations. The current rules bar (cash-strapped) pro-life groups from receiving Title X funds and allow (pro-death) groups like (prosperous, cash cow) Planned Parenthood (PP) to use dollars to help keep their profitable abortion business viable. The existing Title X policy was put in place by President Clinton, who overturned President Reagan's regulations which protected taxpayer monies by separating the supposedly clean side of PP's business (PAP and breast cancer screening, HIV testing, etc.) from the abortion side.

"“A large majority of Americans believe that the federal government should not be funding abortionists, yet that is exactly what President Clinton's regulations, which have been maintained by President George W. Bush, do. If this Dirty Dozen were really serious about protecting the supposedly legitimate side of PP, they would welcome new regulations to protect those efforts.

"In light of recent revelations that PP clinics across the nation have been involved in racism, defrauding taxpayers and complicit in the statutory rape of young girls, someone should ask these appeasers of abortion and bad government why they seek to shield potential criminal activity. If President Bush fails to act, our future President should. These changes are necessary to protect women and to protect PP from itself.

TAKE ACTION

"Contact your congressmen if they appear in the following "Dirty Dozen" list and express your disappointment:

· Reps. Mark Kirk (Ill.),
· Christopher Shays (Conn.),
· Kay Granger (Texas),
· Jim Ramstad (Minn.),
· Charlie Dent (Pa.),
· Rodney Frelinghuysen (N.J.),
· Ralph Regula (R-Ohio),
· David Hobson (R-Ohio),
· Judy Biggert (Ill.),
· Mike Castle (Del.),
· Wayne Gilchrest (Md.) and
· Deborah Pryce (R-Ohio)."

I find it appalling that those three Republicans representatives from Ohio, 25% of those signing off on the letter the President Bush, urged him to continue funding of the heinous Planned Parenthood Federation of America. This is one of the reasons, I believe, why the Republicans lost many seats in Congress in 2006. They have lost their principles, such as the preeminent issue of our day - absolute sanctity of human life. I surely hope they will find them (those principles) before the election this fall, for their sakes, ours and the babies!