Obama Begins Dismantling Bans on Taxpayer Funding of Abortions

As predicted and following Obama’s positions as a U.S. Senator and his campaign statements, President Obama took the first step to dismantle long-time policy which protects taxpayers from having to pay for abortions.

The Obama administration unveiled its budget last week, explicitly urging the House and Senate to repeal the Dornan Amendment which has prevented tax-funded abortion in the District of Columbia for many years.

“If Congress goes along with the Obama proposal, the predictable result will be tax funding of several thousand elective abortions annually, including roughly 1,000 abortions annually that would not otherwise occur,” stated Douglas Johnson, Legislative Director for the National Right to Life Committee. “The abortion industry’s own studies suggest that many thousands of residents of the nation’s capital are alive today because of the abortion fund ban that President Obama now proposes to repeal.”

This move by the White House flies in the face of Obama’s oft-repeated statements that he wants to reduce the number of abortions. The next step, says Johnson, would be “an attempt to smuggle vast expansions of abortion into law through health care reform legislation.”

The entire news release from National Right to Life can be found here.

Barbara Lyons