Major Battles Begin Over Federal Taxpayer Dollars for Abortion

Every fall, Congress passes numbers of authorization and appropriations bills to keep the government funded and running. Every year, we right-to-lifers are successful in prohibiting the use of federal taxpayer dollars for abortions by adding amendments to dozens of these bills. It has been fairly routine each year for taxpayer funding of abortions to be prohibited. NO MORE!

Buoyed by the success of the abortion-laden Obamacare and stung by the President’s regulation to prohibit abortion funding in high-risk insurance plans, pro-abortion groups and legislators are more determined than ever to force you, the taxpayer, to pay for abortions in every instance imaginable.

First on the list is funding abortions at military hospitals. Sen. Roland Burris (D-IL) successfully added an amendment to a defense authorization bill to allow abortion at taxpayer-funded military base hospitals. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) objected to unanimous consent to allow the bill to be considered. McCain’s objection forces the leadership to find 60 votes to consider the bill. And, so it will go on… bill after bill.

It is strange that legislators would actually vote in favor of taxpayer funding of abortions when polls over the past three decades indicate the American public does not want its taxpayer dollars used in this way. For those up for re-election, they do so at their own peril.

Barbara Lyons