Sentences with phrase «abortion funding for»
Instead of lobbying for abortion funding for poor women, therefore, churches should make it financially and socially possible for them to raise their children.
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For going on three weeks now, the Senate has been hung up on an amendment to the bill prohibiting its victims» fund, collected from fines on traffickers, from being used for abortioFor going on three weeks now, the Senate has been hung up on an amendment to the bill prohibiting its victims» fund, collected from fines on traffickers, from being used for abortiofor abortions.
And such groups provided Catholic support for the president in 2009, when he faced conservative Catholic criticism over his commencement address at the University of Notre Dame, and in 2010, when the bishops opposed Obama's health care law, alleging that it left the door open to taxpayer - funded abortion.
When Santorum or Rick Perry was the nominee it was all about social issues and bringing us back to being a «Christian nation» in good standing with God for the Republicans, we heard a never ending drumbeat about abortion, prayer in schools, teaching creationism, and trying to end funding for planned parenthood, even stopping the funding of birth control.
Some of these centers (fewer than half) offer abortion services, but none actually uses federal funds to perform abortions, since using those funds for that purpose is already illegal.
Sye notes that a bill called the «No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act,» which would place new restrictions on the healthcare law President Obama signed last year, was the third House resolution introduced this year, which he calls a testament to new GOP fervor on social issues.
And it is not the time for an 11th - hour effort to prohibit the District of Columbia from using Medicaid funds to pay for abortions — something all states are permitted to do.
Obama rescinded the ban on federal funds for overseas abortion providers and signed a healthcare law that many conservatives say subsidizes abortion, though the law's supporters say it respects the federal ban on abortion funding.
Sure you can say that the fact that federal funds pay for other services, allowing them to use the private money they have for abortions, but those other services are vital for limiting the number the abortions by providing women with contraception to avoid unwanted pregnancies.
She added: «We recognize that there are difficulties women face with pregnancies, especially in cases where the unborn child may be born with a life - limiting disease, but we do not believe that abortion is the answer, and that funding for a free abortion in another country is short - sighted as it neglects any mention of an offer of counselling or care for the woman.»
On the pro-life side, ban abortions after 20 weeks (with an exception for the mother's life) and make permanent the long - standing and bipartisan - crafted principles of the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits the direct federal funding of abortion.
Perhaps, people can identify themselves as pro-abortion or anti abortion in filing taxes, and therefore only taxpayers who fund abortion can claim government aid for the procedure.
I guess I feel the same way about a liberal agenda that say that to get out of debt we have to spend more, or that my tax dollars have to pay for something I think is morally wrong (Obamacare sets up a fund to pay for late term abortions) or a government that confiscates kids lunches, or tells me how much soda I can drink, or uses my tax money to choose winners and losers (mostly losers but Obma doners) in energy production that produces no energy yet we are sitting on more coal and oil than any other nation on the planet.
What Mitt doesn't tell you is that PP doesn't use Government funding for abortions, it uses them to provide basic healthcare for women who couldn't otherwise afford it.
And the truth of the matter, most slugs making noise about abortion are only concerned with tax money being used, which in of itself clearly shows they do not know anything about the law, and the use of tax funds for abortion, because it is already illegal.
If a few special amendments are allowed (standing, funding, abortion), it becomes impossible to stave off demands for other special amendments.
Government funding of abortions through Medicaid and other agencies has upped the ante for Christian citizens, according to David Carlin, a Democratic politician in Rhode Island.
Another example is that of citizens of states which pay for abortions with public funds who refuse, as a matter of conscience, to remit to state government a portion of their taxes corresponding to the percentage of the state budget that goes to abortion funding.
As we read this history, the furor over stem cells was fueled by numerous factors: the near - universal human desire for magic; patients» desperation in the face of illness and their hope for cures; the belief that biology can now do anything; the reluctance of scientists to accept any limits (particularly moral limits) on their research; the impact of big money from biotech stocks, patents, and federal funding; the willingness of America's elite class to use every means possible to discredit religion in general; and the need to protect the unlimited abortion license by accepting no protections of unborn human life.
Concentrate on the fight the religious folks are pitting against public funding for abortions.
If Planned Parenthood was distributing contraception services legitimately and fraudulently claiming for abortion services (really just dollars for abortion follow - ups), then the inflated billing would weaken the correlation between contraception and government funding.
Allegedly, Planned Parenthood sought government funding for abortion by creating and billing for fraudulent services - which billing would substantially increase Planned Parenthood's revenue per head aborted.
On a final note, by implementing $ 1 / month abortions, [11] Obamacare has upended longstanding law prohibiting the use of taxpayer money for abortions, [12] by requiring that taxpayers fund abortions through private pay insurance.
CNN: Susan G. Komen drops funding for Planned Parenthood The Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation revealed Tuesday it was cutting funds to Planned Parenthood, sparking an outcry from abortion rights advocates blaming «political pressure» and praise from an anti-abortion group.
But preserving and pumping up a failed system» let alone doing so in a way that funds abortion, bankrupts the next generation, and makes any genuine reform far more difficult while failing to reach anything like universal coverage» is hardly a cause for joy or relief.
Many centers set up «women in need» or «justice» funds designating money specifically for minority abortions.
A January 2015 survey, performed by the Marist Institute for Public Opinion, found that 68 percent of all Americans oppose the use of government funding to pay for abortion.
She has also advocated for ending the pro-life Hyde Amendment, first enacted in 1976 and passed in some form ever since, which prevents taxpayer funding of elective abortions through federal programs like Medicaid.
«This decision again demonstrates the need for enactment of the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, which would permanently prevent taxpayer subsidies for abortion - covering health plans, both in ObamaCare and in other federal health benefits programsAbortion Act, which would permanently prevent taxpayer subsidies for abortion - covering health plans, both in ObamaCare and in other federal health benefits programsabortion - covering health plans, both in ObamaCare and in other federal health benefits programs.»
... for the past 25 years, the Democratic Party, at least rhetorically, acknowledged that compelling taxpayers to fund abortions was a step too far in the culture wars.
A party that calls for government funding of abortion does not merely disagree with pro-life Americans, but wants to implicate them through their government of supporting what they believe is a moral evil.
The ad targeted Dreihaus's vote in favor of the Affordable Care Act (ACA); SBAL equates support for the act with support for taxpayer - funded abortions.
«All they're asking for is a narrow exemption from the law that says they don't have to provide drugs they believe cause abortions,» Hobby Lobby attorney Kyle Duncan, a general counsel for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, told CNN affiliate KFOR in November.
The abortion fight has also been running hotter, with the Komen Foundation cutting funding for breast cancer screenings at Planned Parenthood, only to reverse course a few days later under tremendous pressure from supporters of abortion rights.
The health care bill specifically and by executive order states that no federal funds can be used to pay for elective abortions.
I am a Christian, I oppose abortion, yet it is okay for my tax dollars to fund it.
Polling shows the majority of Americans oppose public funding for abortion, even those who identify as pro-choice.
Also you might like to know that there was an executive order issued by the president prohibiting the use of public funds for elective abortions which was pretty much the impetus that got the health care bill passed.
Abortion has come to the fore in a handful of states where self - proclaimed «pro-life» Democratic lawmakers are facing allegations from conservative groups that their support for the healthcare bill legislated federally - funded aAbortion has come to the fore in a handful of states where self - proclaimed «pro-life» Democratic lawmakers are facing allegations from conservative groups that their support for the healthcare bill legislated federally - funded abortionabortion.
«It is a fact that Steve Driehaus has voted for a bill that includes taxpayer funding of abortion.»
That could not be the problem here in Floridia, since an amendment prohibiting government funding for abortions passed.
But that largely changed this year after most pro-life Democrats voted for the federal healthcare bill that many abortion opponents say allows for federal funding of abortion.
A recent law prohibits federal funds from paying for most abortions, but Planned Parenthood — which, among other services, is a major abortion provider (3 percent of their services are abortions)-- has received hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding — legally, much of that can not be used on abortions.
They note that state funding for Planned Parenthood was barred from going to abortions even before he cut it.
Washington already provides state - funded abortions for low - income women.
Of course, what kind of Democratic bill is it, if it doesn't include funding for abortion?
Last week Republicans introduced legislation to ban all federal funding for abortion.
Catholic organizations have no problem paying non-Catholics to work for them and those non-Catholic's can take that money that was paid to them and pay for an abortion, go gambling in Vegas, buy medical marijuana, buy condoms or even visit a Nevada «Chicken Ranch» if they want to, all funded by the Catholic Church, but don't you dare tell the Church they have to pay into a healthcare system where some employee's may choose to use those health benefits to pay for contraceptives?
Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.
While federal funds can not be used for abortions, Planned Parenthood reports that half of its patients use Medicaid to cover other services like birth control.