Americans taxed to fund abortions

Jim Brown - OneNewsNow - 5/22/2008 4:00:00 AMvar addthis_pub = 'onenewsnow';

A conservative congressman is blasting Democrats for attempting to use the emergency war-funding bill to line the pockets of the country's largest abortion provider.

Senate Democrats have attached a provision to the Iraq supplemental bill that would allow university healthcare centers and some Planned Parenthood facilities to receive a discount on abortion drugs such as RU-486. Presidential hopeful Senator Barack Obama (D-Illinois) introduced a similar stand-alone bill (S. 2347) in November "to restore and protect access to discount drug prices for university-based and safety-net clinics."
 
Congressman Trent Franks (R-Arizona) says it is "astonishing" that Congress would give $300 million a year to Planned Parenthood.
 
"This is an organization that kills children for one of the basic premises of their existence," explains Franks. "When you attach that to something that affects our war funding, our troops, you have to ask yourself if that is what those men and women died for who are lying out in Arlington National Cemetery ..."
 
"[Did they die for the right] to kill our children" as well as to "tax people to help pay for it?" he questions. "...[This] is an outrage that beggars my ability to describe," says Franks.
 
A Senate Republican aide tells OneNewsNow that "it's disappointing that Senate Democrats would attempt to use troop funding legislation to subsidize Planned Parenthood. This move provides a clear reflection of their priorities."

In matters like these I usually ask myself,  " What would T.J. say ?"

" I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others. "

                                                     -  Thomas Jefferson

" To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he    disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."

                                                       - Thomas Jefferson 

He may have been on to something there.

TG