The current ban on privately
funded abortions in military facilities threatens the health and lives of women serving overseas.
Likewise, it either requires malicious intent or outright stupidity to claim that the health - care
law funds abortions, when it very clearly does not.
Whether a man crowd funds potato salad or a woman
crowd funds abortion, whether or not to donate is solely up to each individual.
Planned Parenthood has also faced ongoing efforts by some states to limit the
government funding the abortion provider receives through Title X and Medicaid, as well as state laws restricting abortion.
Trump has appointed a pro-life Supreme Court justice, banned federal dollars from
funding abortion overseas, and signed a law allowing states to withhold funding for abortion providers.
Planned Parenthood Federation of America applauds the Senate Armed Services Committee for passing an amendment offered by Senator Roland Burris (D - IL) to the National Defense Authorization Act that would repeal the ban on
privately funded abortion care for servicewomen.
(Personally, I would love it if my tax dollars no longer even indirectly
funded abortions at Planned Parenthood clinics, but sadly, a majority does not yet agree.)
As with American nonprofits, taxpayer money given to foreign nonprofits does not
directly fund abortions, but — as with American nonprofits — people don't want their money being used in any way to support these groups.
It suggests that, ultimately, no amount of separation between a program's publicly funded family planning activities and its privately
funded abortion services will be sufficient to satisfy the most extreme wing of the antiabortion movement.
On Jan. 1, the Liberal government of New Brunswick eliminated a requirement that women seeking
fully funded abortions in that province have the approval of two doctors (to certify that the procedure was «medically necessary»).
While the principle of separation «does not require separate grantees or even a separate health facility,» the distinction between an agency's Title X-funded family planning project and its privately
funded abortion activities must be substantial: «separate bookkeeping entries alone will not satisfy the spirit of the law.»
Conversely, conservatives should not fail to highlight the extreme views of liberals on social issues» for instance, supporting taxpayer -
funded abortion on demand throughout all nine months of pregnancy.
Michael Bowman hasn't paid federal income taxes in almost 20 years because he says that his Christian values prohibit him from paying money to a government that
also funds abortion.
Mr. Secular humanist will continue to
fund abortion Mr. Atheist will continue to rely on Christians for fund raising Mr. Agnostic could care less
Conservative groups allege that the healthcare bill
funds abortion by allowing Americans to buy into government subsidized healthcare exchanges in which abortion is covered.
The decision by a three - member panel of the Ohio Elections Commission allows U.S. Rep. Steve Driehaus to move forward with a complaint alleging that the Susan B. Anthony List, an anti-abortion group, is deliberately lying about his record when it says he supports government -
funded abortion because of his March vote for healthcare reform.
That the House of Representatives managed not to
fund abortions while passing the new health - care bill is the good news.
In 1980, over Jimmy Carter's objections, they succeeded in making the platform support taxpayer -
funded abortion too.
South Africa, which has had abortion on demand for years has witnessed a fourfold increase in maternal mortality since a UK -
funded abortion organisation set up clinics around that country.
The grave injustice to the unborn of laws permitting and
funding abortion makes it illegitimate for citizens or public officials to support such laws.
A and B submitted that the Secretary of State for Health was acting unlawfully in refusing to permit women from NI to access
NHS funded abortions.
U.S. foreign policy
prohibits funding abortion only «as a method of family planning,» but global health funding programs currently extend beyond the letter of the law by interpreting this to prohibit funding for all abortion — even in the cases of rape, incest or a life - endangering pregnancy.
@Bill Deacon «If you can't imagine a world in which a woman would be chaste, you should probably vote for free contraception and
government funded abortion.»
This amendment was narrowly defeated by Democratic party politicians who said they were «personally against abortion», but consistently voted to legalize and / or
publicly fund abortion.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said the Democrats» sweeping healthcare reform law does
not fund abortions, and that no president's administration has since the Hyde Amendment passed more than 30 years ago.
Tim Kaine differs with Clinton on a longstanding rule banning federal taxpayer dollars
from funding abortions, the Democratic vice presidential candidate told CNN's Jake Tapper on «State of the Union.»
On the Democratic side, it's the Hyde Amendment — the legislative provision that prevents the federal government from
directly funding abortions.
Humanists UK welcomes Government move to
fund abortion for Northern Irish women on the NHS in England
New York provides state dollars to
fund abortion services for women who can not afford them, even though there is no federal participation in funding.
ARCC also wants hospitals to accept self - referrals (as many women do not have a family doctor), and negotiate a reciprocal billing agreement with women from P.E.I. seeking
fully funded abortions.
Although better known for the ban in Title X-funded projects on nondirective counseling and referral for abortion on request, the measure also called for a physical and financial «wall of separation» between an agency's publicly funded family planning program and its privately
funded abortion activities.
Responding to the Government's announcement that it will now move to
fund abortions on the NHS in England for women from Northern Ireland, Humanists UK Chief Executive Andrew Copson commented:
How about the executive order signed by Obama to provide our tax - payer dollars to
fund abortions in foreign countries or our hard - earned tax dollars being used to renovate mosques around the world?
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.
Planned parenthood does not provide GOVERNMENT -
FUNDED abortions.
The Christian lobby group, Care, have voiced its disappointment at the government following the announcement that it would
fund abortions in England for Northern Irish women.
(Note: Hope Through Healing Hands does not
fund abortion.