Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kans.), joined by 12 other Republican senators, is calling upon Democratic leaders in Congress to halt federal funding of abortion while cases of “negligent medical practice” are investigated.
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(Photo: AP Images / Stacie Freudenberg, File)Signs and crosses are seen near a Planned Parenthood location in Aurora, Ill., with signs and fake monuments for aborted babies Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2007, during the facility's open house. The name of the company applying for the building permits, Gemini Office Development, sounded like just another firm. Then it was revealed that Gemini is a subsidiary of Planned Parenthood. And that the 22,000-square foot, $7.5 million building would include space where abortions would be performed. Now, the building stands finished but empty while the city investigates whether any laws were broken.
Brownback and Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) have sent a letter to Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and House Representative David Obey (D-Wis.), who both chair Senate and House appropriation committees, asking them “to suspend funding in all future Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education and Related Agencies Appropriations bills for organizations that promote abortion.”
The senators agree that federal funding should be suspended to abortion groups like Planned Parenthood pending further investigation of “troubling accusations of negligent medical practice.”
In the letter sent last week, Brownback pointed to a recent lawsuit filed two weeks ago, in which the Kansas/Missouri chapter of Planned Parenthood was charged with performing illegal late-term abortions, falsifying documents and failing to comply with medical reporting requirements.
“We should not use tax dollars to subsidize abortion clinics – particularly when there are serious concerns regarding their compliance with state law and medical standards,” said the Kansas senator in the letter.
Following the 107-count indictment against Planned Parenthood’s Kansas affiliate, more than 60 pro-family leaders in October had signed a letter to senators and representatives asking them to suspend federal funding for the national organization.
The letter was signed by a number of leaders from pro-family groups including Concerned Women For America, Focus on the Family, Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, Liberty Counsel, American Family Association, Traditional Values Coalition, and Americans United for Life.
Planned Parenthood Federation of America reportedly receives $300 million from taxpayer funding each year.
Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) introduced a bill in the House last Thursday that would such stop such funds.
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Planned Parenthood should be used as one method of providing prevention against the disease of unwanted pregnancy. Just as America doesn't encourage monopolies in any other segment of society, nor should abortion monopolies be cultivated. But all abortions should come with proper documentation, and information data collected for the federal government to provide accurate statistic information on the origins of the disease.
Presuming that loving marriages produce wanted children, isolating the cause of abortions is critical to managing the problem, and to prevent the burden of women being used as incubators by an uncaring public.
If women want to get abortions or if doctors want to build aboriton clinics, they need to use their own money. NOT MINE!
1. The law states, that ANY entitiy (PPH is an entity) is supposed to report ALL instances of underage sex.
2. The law states that ANY entity is supposed to report underage RAPE. In all states, any sex between certain ages is considered RAPE.
3. PPH is doing the above, plus they are ON TAPE, giving advise NOT to report these issues.
All of these are against the law. PPH should not only be unfunded, but closed and prosecuted under the laws they have broken.
Funding should be stripped in ANY case as I cannot find funding of abortion in the Constitution of the United States, Bill of Rights or any other founding document. If someone can find the right to an abortion in the Constitution, I'll give you a million dollars.
In these case
We're really not sure what American's want quite honestly.
:P you do realize that republican democracy's means that the people in power are responsible to their constituients and the majority of America does not want Abortion to be stopped...
No, it is NOT about time. The time was when the White House and both houses of Congress were in Republican hands. However, they did nothing. It makes me wonder why we so whole heartedly support the Republican party. The "key" issue every election seems to be abortion and the Republicans have not used their position of power to do anything to stop/reduce it when they had the opportunity. It seems to me that to introduce this legislation now is a political ploy to provide ammunition against the Dems. That's not good enough. To have introduced it before the Dems took control of Congress would have required the Republicans to come good on their compaign promises to the Religious Right. Ah, another opportunity lost!
Its about TIME!!!! My hard earned dollars should not be used to fund continous Genocide against the innocent. The Abortion Industry makes enough money selling Baby parts.
The money should have been used to teach young people how to take responsibly for themselves and their families, which we all believed was Planned Parenthood's initial goal, but hasn't materialize judging by the almost 50 million abortion since 1973.
This unborn labor force would have solved our Social Security, Tax and Labor shortages which we face today.