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Today: No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act Hits the Floor

By: Marjorie Dannenfelser (Diary)  |  May 4th, 2011 at 02:00 PM  | 

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From the diaries…

Later this afternoon, the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act (H.R. 3) will hit the floor of the House of Representatives.

This bipartisan bill — co-sponsored by Reps. Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Dan Lipinski (D-IL) — establishes a permanent, government-wide prohibition on federal funding for abortion, prohibits federal subsidies for health plans that include abortion, and strengthens conscience protections for health care professionals.

Please take just a minute to send your Representative a quick message urging them to vocally support this critical, common sense bill that gets taxpayers out of the abortion business.

Why is this bill so critical? Each and every year, many restrictions on taxpayer funding of abortion such as the Hyde Amendment expire, meaning our pro-life leaders in Congress have to fight hard to get them passed again and again. Furthermore, the Hyde Amendment does not cover new programs created by Obamacare. This bill creates a ban on federal subsides for health care plans that cover abortion.

To learn more about the Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, please check out this great letter circulated by our 17 wonderful pro-life women in the 112th Congress, led by Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-OH).

Also, please take a moment to watch the video message below from my good friend, Rep. Chris Smith, a chief sponsor of the bill and co-chair of the House Pro-Life Caucus.

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  • acat

    … his district is pretty socially conservative, by Chicago standards.

    Was this one of the bills Boehner got Reid to agree to bring up in the Senate as part of the budget debacle?

    If so, this is the year to do it – plenty of Dems don’t want to damage their precious pro-life illusion going into 2012… it’s going to be a bad year for them already, they won’t want to make it worse.

    Mew

    • YnotNOW

      and hang around the neck of every senator and congress rep that votes against.

      • acat
  • oldbird77

    unfortunatly my rep is Sarbanes the Younger. frown emoticon.

  • 4life

    The link provided makes it so easy to email your Rep. Share on your Facebook page with all your friends!

    • http://whattoreadtoday.blogspot.com/ Paula

      From the Susan B. Anthony List:

      “The U.S. House of Representatives just passed the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act by a vote of 251-175.”

    • kfwmcc

      If your daughter takes any tax exemptions(aka everyone), and gets raped by a thug and she chooses not to carry the rapists baby to term, this bill implies your daughter will need to provide proof to tax collectors that it was really rape.
      The right of choice and privacy on this matter has been settled by the supreme court. This bill is meant to use government intrusion to intimidate people.