Saturday, September 20, 2008

H.R. 3010 – The Windfall for Planned Parenthood

For six consecutive years, the Republican Party controlled the White House, the House of Representatives, the Senate, and seven out of nine Supreme Court justices were appointed by Republican presidents. Yet during that time, no progress was made towards overturning Roe v Wade.

But it’s much worse than that. Federal funding for Planned Parenthood actually increased during that time! You may remember during that time that Dr. D. James Kennedy, Jay Sekulow, and many others urged you to call your congressmen and senators to put a stop to this. But they never mention the names of the congressmen and senators who voted for the bill or bills which resulted in the increase in funding. Have you ever wondered who is responsible for this?

The bill is H.R. 3010 of the 109th congressional session. It is a DHHS (Department of Hell and inHumane Services) appropriations bill. Its full title is Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006. The bill says that the appropriated funds can’t be used for abortions (Title V section 507 (a)), but then exceptions to the exception are mentioned in section 508.

The exceptions are:

1. If the pregnancy resulted from rape or incest.
2. If ANY physician says that the woman’s life is in danger for reasons which include “physical disorder, physical injury, or physical illness”.

The first loophole is intolerable, but the second one is big enough to allow any abortion to be funded. All Planned Parenthood has to do is get one physician to say that the woman’s life is in danger and they can fund the abortion. But there is yet another loophole in H.R. 3010. Chemical abortions are not considered “abortions”. Chemically abortifacient birth control and contraception for unmarried singles including adolescents is funded without restriction (even over the objections of their parents) under this bill. Read more here.

Clearly, any senator or congressman who voted for this legislation is not just in favor of legalizing sinful behavior, but has no qualms whatsoever about using taxpayer’s money to actually promote sinful behavior (both murder and fornication).

John McCain is one of the senators who voted for this bill.
Look at the roll call if you don’t believe me. Even Sam Brownback, who criticized President Bush’s compromise on embryonic stem cell research, voted for this bill! What a hypocrite! Even among the three senators who voted against the bill, it doesn’t seem like abortion was the reason that they voted against it. Ensign is a rape-and-incest exceptions Republican and Conrad is total pro-abort Democrat. Maybe Inhofe was the only one with a conscience in the Senate at that time.

As for the congressmen, so-called pro-lifers Duncan Hunter, Mike Pence, and Steve Chabot voted for this bill. While true pro-lifer Ron Paul voted against it, so did pro-aborts Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer, Ted Strickland, and Cynthia McKinney (I guess because the bill did not provide enough funds for murder). Tom Tancredo also voted against it. Click here to see how your 2005-2006 congressman voted.

Last but not least, the biggest pro-abort of all, President Bush, signed this filthy and murderous piece of legislation into law.

1 comment:

  1. Thanks for standing against McCain as a conservative! He's not pro-life, he's not pro-conservative. He's a faker, and would lead Republicans to take the place of the Democrats so the Democrats can embrace the socialist policies they all love!

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