Rep. Chris Smith's New Bill Is Necessary To Restore
Abortion Funding Neutrality
WASHINGTON, D.C., July 29, 2010 - Family Research
Council Action today praised U.S. Rep. Chris Smith
(R-NJ) for introducing bipartisan legislation to codify
federal abortion funding restrictions that have been
greatly undermined this year. With passage of a health
care law that will fund and subsidize abortion, and
with efforts by pro-abortion senators to open up military
bases to abortion, Rep. Smith is introducing legislation
to enact a government-wide abortion funding ban.
Family Research Council Action Senior Vice President
Tom McClusky praised the bill with the following
comments:
"In the last year, we have seen President Obama
and pro-abortion congressional leaders make repeated
attempts to eviscerate the long-agreed line on federal
funding of abortion. They began by enacting the abortion
funding health care law and are now advancing an abortion
agenda that includes turning our military hospitals
into abortion facilities.
"The American people have responded swiftly and
emphatically that their hard earned dollars should
not be used to pay for other peoples abortions. We
applaud Congressman Smith and numerous Members on both
sides of the aisle for responding to the concerns of
the American people by introducing a measure that applies
an abortion funding ban across the federal government.
"The American people, regardless of their views
of abortion's legality, should not be forced to pay
for someone's abortion. The Smith bill would protect
the American taxpayer and restore the traditional ban
on government funding of elective abortion.
"Despite recent claims by the Department of Health
and Human Services that it will not fund abortion,
even the non- partisan Congressional Research Service
agreed yesterday that there is no statutory prohibition
on funding abortion in the high risk pools. Both pro-life
and pro-abortion groups agree that the courts are likely
to require federal abortion funding unless the law
says differently which is why passage of Congressman
Smith's abortion funding neutrality bill is so essential.
"We applaud all the Democrats and Republicans
cosponsoring the Smith abortion funding ban, and urge
all Americans to support this commonsense effort to
restore government funding neutrality on abortion," concluded
McClusky.
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Web site: www.frc.org
WASHINGTON, D.C., July 29, 2010 - Family Research
Council Action today praised U.S. Rep. Chris Smith
(R-NJ) for introducing bipartisan legislation to codify
federal abortion funding restrictions that have been
greatly undermined this year. With passage of a health
care law that will fund and subsidize abortion, and
with efforts by pro-abortion senators to open up military
bases to abortion, Rep. Smith is introducing legislation
to enact a government-wide abortion funding ban.
Family Research Council Action Senior Vice President
Tom McClusky praised the bill with the following
comments:
"In the last year, we have seen President Obama
and pro-abortion congressional leaders make repeated
attempts to eviscerate the long-agreed line on federal
funding of abortion. They began by enacting the abortion
funding health care law and are now advancing an abortion
agenda that includes turning our military hospitals
into abortion facilities.
"The American people have responded swiftly and
emphatically that their hard earned dollars should
not be used to pay for other peoples abortions. We
applaud Congressman Smith and numerous Members on both
sides of the aisle for responding to the concerns of
the American people by introducing a measure that applies
an abortion funding ban across the federal government.
"The American people, regardless of their views
of abortion's legality, should not be forced to pay
for someone's abortion. The Smith bill would protect
the American taxpayer and restore the traditional ban
on government funding of elective abortion.
"Despite recent claims by the Department of Health
and Human Services that it will not fund abortion,
even the non- partisan Congressional Research Service
agreed yesterday that there is no statutory prohibition
on funding abortion in the high risk pools. Both pro-life
and pro-abortion groups agree that the courts are likely
to require federal abortion funding unless the law
says differently which is why passage of Congressman
Smith's abortion funding neutrality bill is so essential.
"We applaud all the Democrats and Republicans
cosponsoring the Smith abortion funding ban, and urge
all Americans to support this commonsense effort to
restore government funding neutrality on abortion," concluded
McClusky.
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FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Web site: www.frc.org