Mitch McConnell Pulls Funding Bill Containing Shaheen Pro-Abortion Amendment
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Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) withdrew an overseas spending bill last week that would have provided $665 million for “family planning and reproductive health care” overseas and funds for the pro-abortion U.N. Population Fund.
C-Fam and the Eagle Forum reported McConnell withdrew the State and Foreign Operations (SFOPs) bill after New Hampshire Democrat Sen. Jeanne Shaheen inserted an amendment into the bill to provide support to groups that promote abortions overseas – a move that would have clearly undermined the Trump administration’s pro-life policies.
A coalition of 44 national pro-life leaders sent a letter in October to McConnell and House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) voicing their vehement opposition to the Shaheen amendment.
Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT), chairman of the Senate pro-life caucus, joined with these leaders in asking McConnell to amend the bill before it advanced.
“It’s our duty to protect the most vulnerable in our society,” Daines said, according to C-Fam. “I am deeply concerned about how this amendment undermines pro-life policies abroad and I will continue to work to defeat it.”
SFOPs was part of the Bipartisan Budget Agreement reached by Congress and the White House in July. The agreement clearly stipulated, “[T]here will be no poison pills, additional new riders…unless agreed to on a bipartisan basis by the four leaders with the approval of the President.”
C-Fam reported Shaheen’s longstanding attempts to force American taxpayers to fund promoting abortion overseas:
Shaheen, a longtime member of the subcommittee tasked with funding overseas diplomacy, development and humanitarian assistance, annually proposes an amendment that undermines U.S. funding restrictions on abortion and abortion-related activities and increases funding to family planning groups abroad that are known to promote abortion.The Shaheen amendment routinely passes due to support from two Republican senators who promote abortion—Susan Collins (R-ME) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK).
In addition, Shaheen introduced this year in her amendment a non-discrimination policy, reported C-Fam, that bars “discrimination on the basis of pregnancy, sexual orientation and gender identity.”
Thus, the amendment would have not only promoted abortion overseas, but the radical LGBT agenda.
Eunie Smith, president of the Eagle Forum, said in a statement sent to Breitbart News the Shaheen amendment would have undercut the pro-life initiatives of the Trump administration:
Through the adoption of the Mexico City Policy, or the Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance (PLGHA) policy, the United States has successfully prevented foreign organizations from using tax-payer money for abortion services. However, PLGHA does not prevent funds from being used by domestic organizations working overseas.
“The Senate majority proved that they are not willing to compromise on life by rejecting the Shaheen amendment which allocated these overseas-based American organizations $665 million dollars to continue their atrocious life-ending work,” she added.
Dr.
Leah Torres, an
OB/GYN in Salt Lake City, Utah, said that when she performs certain abortions
she cuts the vocal cord of the baby so "there's really no
opportunity" for the child to scream. She also described herself as a
"uterus ripper outer" because she performs hysterectomies.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand: ‘Our Lives Depend
On’ Protecting Abortion Rights
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25 GOP Senators Urge That
Spending Bills Protect Pro-Life Measures
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“I Cut the Vocal Cord So The Baby Can't
Scream.”
Dr.
Leah Torres, an
OB/GYN in Salt Lake City, Utah, said that when she performs certain abortions
she cuts the vocal cord of the baby so "there's really no
opportunity" for the child to scream. She also described herself as a
"uterus ripper outer" because she performs hysterectomies.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand: ‘Our Lives Depend
On’ Protecting Abortion Rights
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)
(Getty/Steve Pope)
“Our lives depend on” protecting abortion rights, Sen. Kirsten
Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) claimed Friday in response to breaking news that
restrictions on the termination of unborn babies in Missouri had been signed
into law.
Reacting to an Associated Press (AP) story that Missouri’s new
law bans abortion at the eighth week of pregnancy, Sen. Gillibrand tweeted that
women’s lives depend on forcefully fighting back:
“Women can't afford for us to take half-measures in response to
an all-out onslaught on their rights. We have to fight back like our lives
depend on it. They do.”
According to the
AP story, Missouri’s abortion ban
includes exceptions when the life or physical health of the mother is endangered
by pregnancy:
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on Friday signed a bill that bans
abortions on or beyond the eighth week of pregnancy without exceptions for
cases of rape or incest, making it among the most restrictive abortion policies
in the nation.
…
The measure includes exceptions for medical emergencies, such as
when there is a risk of death or permanent physical injuries to “a major bodily
function of the pregnant woman.”
What Is It With Democrats And Death?
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They
oppose legislation to prevent them from being killed. They pass legislation
that seeks ways to ensure their death. They make outlandish and ridiculously
stupid claims as justification to do so. And when presented with evidence to
the contrary they flinch.
Recently
I found myself in a conversation with perhaps the single most influential
person not currently in elective office in New York City.
We
were discussing the impact of the six or seven states that have adopted
“heartbeat bills” and Alabama’s recently passed nearly 100% abortion ban.
This
person’s observation specifically: “If Republicans don’t stop with the pro-life
issue, they will push women to vote for... (dramatic pause inserted)
...Democrats.”
So
Democrats are supported by those who want the right to see their
children dead.
In
New York it was the Democrat elected Assembly and governor who passed, signed
into law, and then gave themselves a standing ovation on the dead-of-night
passage of that state’s new legalization of killing children after they had
been born.
In
Virginia it was a Democrat governor who eerily described on morning radio step
by step what happens when they decide whether a born child has the right to
live or be killed.
On
Friday, at a gathering of nearly 1300 New York City/Tri-State area pastors,
those gathered learned that Democrats have opposed the expansion of crisis
pregnancy centers, while actively pushing for the expansion of abortion
facility licenses. This happening while three NYC Democrat-controlled zip codes
are the only ones where abortions outnumber live births.
Democrats
often claim that to be in favor of killing of children is to be “pro-woman.”
Yet they refuse to acknowledge that their policies have ushered in the death of
more than 30
million women in recent years.
Democrats
claim that no child should be forced to live a life unwanted—that every
child—they argue should know a life of love. Yet they fail to recognize that at
any single point in time there are somewhere around 2
million couplesseeking adoption while last year Americans
killed a touch more than 800
thousand innocent babies in 2018.
Democrats
have argued for mandatory tax-payer funding for low income women to have their
children killed without having to pay for it. They have also turned around and
resisted efforts by then President George W. Bush to incentivize and encourage
marriage which statistically speaking provides greater financial and
emotional security for the woman and the child.
Democrats
argue in favor of government administrated gun control laws—which leave
children in high crime areas far more vulnerable. Democrats argue against
common gun ownership by law abiding citizens which again would by law leave
children at the mercy of criminals. Democrats almost unilaterally ignore the
gunman’s choices in school shootings. They also never fail to condemn gun
makers. The very gun makers that produced the tools used to stop most school
shooters.
Democrats
refuse to assist the children separated from real families (not the coyote
rapists) in the current immigration crisis. Democrats also looked the other way
when President Clinton signed the family separation law, and President Obama
began to enforce it.
And
this week Nancy Pelosi led the charge of Democrats and for the fiftieth
consecutive time were able to kill legislation that prevented post birth
killing of children already born. Akin to the dead of night New York State
Assembly vote—Democrats on the national stage voted to
keep the killing of born children—legal.
They claim it’s
all about compassion. They cite
statistics that are in themselves so small that
they—statistically speaking—almost never come into play. Or do they?
Bottom
line Democrats argue in favor and tirelessly work for the death of
children—born and unborn.
I
just don’t get why.
It
seems to me to be very cruel and completely lacking in the compassion they too
often invoke.
Kevin
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Anti-abortion activists participate in the "March for
Life," an annual event to mark the anniversary of the 1973 Supreme Court
case Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion in the US, outside the US Supreme
Court in Washington, DC, January 18, 2019. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)
25 GOP Senators Urge That
Spending Bills Protect Pro-Life Measures
May 24, 2019 Updated: May 26, 2019
Twenty-five Republican members of the
Senate urged Appropriations Committee Chairman Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) on May
23 to preserve “all long-standing pro-life and religious
freedom protections in all appropriations
bills” that advance out of the committee.
The senators also appealed to Shelby “that
you do not advance as bill-text any language that weakens pro-life and
religious liberty actions taken by the Trump administration.
“The unborn are the most vulnerable members
of our society, yet they are under attack. In 2015 alone, 638,169 unborn
children lost their lives to abortion,” they
said.
“This is a terrible tragedy, and we must
continue to prevent federal funding from supporting the unjust practice of
elective abortion.”
Sens. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Marsha
Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Kevin Cramer
(R-N.D.), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Steve Daines (R-Mont.), Michael Enzi (R-Wyo.),
Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), James
Inhofe (R-Okla.), James Lankford (R-Okla.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Rand Paul
(R-Ky.), Rob Portman (R-Ohio), James Risch (R-Idaho), Pat Roberts (R-Kan.),
Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Ben Sasse (R-Neb.), Rick Scott
(R-Fla.), Tim Scott (R-S.C.), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.).
The signers also told Shelby that “the
right to live and worship in accordance with one’s religious beliefs is a
bedrock principle of the American founding. The First Amendment of the
Constitution prohibits Congress from interfering in the free exercise of
religion. With this in mind, it is critical to retain the longstanding riders
in appropriations legislation that safeguard the ability of citizens to live
out their faith.”
The letter to Shelby comes against a
backdrop of aggressive moves by pro-life advocates to win passage of new
legislation that significantly limits when abortions can be performed.
In Alabama, for example, Republican Gov.
Kay Ivey signed a measure that effectively bans all abortions and contains no
exceptions for rape or incest, making the new law the nation’s toughest.
Other states considering similarly
restrictive measures include Missouri and Texas.
The aggressive pro-life campaigns followed
actions in New York in which pro-abortion advocates succeeded in gaining
passage of a measure that essentially makes the procedure available right up to
the point of a baby’s birth.
Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the
measure amid a celebration with pro-abortion advocates.
The federal measures the 25 senators seek to
protect have been in place in one form or another since passage in 1976 of the
Hyde Amendment, which prevents federal funding of abortions. The amendment was
named after former Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill.).
A recent Government Accounting Office report said
Planned Parenthood (PP) received more than $1.5 billion from the government
between 2013 and 2015. Planned Parenthood says it uses federal dollars for
non-abortion-related expenses.
Nationwide, PP clinics performed more than
320,000 abortions during each of those years.
President Donald Trump renewed the
Protecting Life in Global Health Policy initiative in 2017 that bars U.S.
foreign-aid dollars from being used to pay for abortions.
The policy was first instituted by
President Ronald Reagan in 1984 during a United Nations conference in Mexico
City and was continued by President George H.W. Bush and President George W.
Bush. Democratic Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama did not observe the
Mexico City policy.
The 25 senators also encouraged Shelby to
ensure that “no riders be added that would threaten” Trump’s renewal of the
Mexico policy, and they noted that a recent Marist poll “showed that 75 percent
of Americans oppose taxpayer funding of abortion abroad.”
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