Obama
planning billion-dollar 'bailout' for abortion industry
Since 12-18-08
Jim Brown - OneNewsNow - 12/18/2008
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=356962
A pro-life group in Washington has launched a campaign to oppose what it calls president-elect Barack Obama's planned $1.5 billion "bailout" of the abortion industry.
Last week, the Obama-Biden Transition Project posted a report on its website that
calls for dramatic policy reversals on abortion, including $1 billion in
taxpayer money for international abortion groups like Planned Parenthood.
The report, titled "Advancing Reproductive Rights and Health in a New
Administration," also calls for a 133-percent increase in funding for the
Title X program, which funds Planned Parenthood clinics across the country.
Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan
B. Anthony List,
is hoping
a Republican-led effort in the Senate will block Obama's plan to
substantially increase taxpayer funding of the abortion industry.
"This billion-dollar bailout of the abortion industry comes at a time,
number one, when the economy is suffering dramatically with true need. And
number two, it communicates an incredible depth of arrogance, especially
when you consider that the vast majority of Americans -- men and women, no
matter who you talk to -- they don't believe that people who don't believe
in abortion should be funding it," she contends. "Most Americans don't
believe that we should be funding abortions, especially in a time of
economic crisis."
The Susan B. Anthony List has started a "Stop the Abortion Bailout" campaign
designed to recruit thousands of activists to send letters to their senators
"with the goal of securing the 41 votes necessary to sustain a Senate
filibuster of the abortion bailout."
How do you think Barack Obama would react to
public outcry over increased funding for Planned Parenthood?