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Obama's new budget calls for $30 million more in abortion funding
life site ^ | Elise Hilton

Posted on 04/12/2013 8:59:26 AM PDT by Morgana

Opinion Print Article | Email Friend | Reprint Permissions Obama's new budget calls for $30 million more in abortion funding

by Elise Hilton

Fri Apr 12, 2013 09:40 EST Comments () Tags: abortion funding, barack obama

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 12, 2013 (Acton Institute) - Obama’s new budget is in. The usual political wrangling is taking place, but there are some undeniable facts about the budget. Taxes are going up (is anyone surprised?), but some of those taxes are “sneaky” ones on senior citizens designed to fund things other than their health. In all, the president’s budget will raise taxes by $1.1 trillion dollars. (That number shouldn’t shock you: President Obama is the first president to ever spend $4 trillion in one year.)

One area of great concern in this budget is abortion funding. Despite the fact that a solid majority of Americans don’t want to pay for other people’s abortions, Obama’s new budget calls for $30 million more to do just that. In 2011, $542 million taxpayer dollars went to Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest provider of abortions. Planned Parenthood is a non-profit organization, yet reported last year revenues in excess of $87 million, and assets over $1 billion.

In addition to heavily funding Planned Parenthood, the budget will fund abortions for Peace Corps volunteers, prison inmates, immigration detainees, and American military personnel.

On the Fund Abortion Now website, there is this:

President Obama unveiled his 2014 budget this morning. We commend the President for striking restrictions on D.C. funding of abortion for low-income women in his budget and for moving to lessen some of the restrictions on coverage for women in the Peace Corps. However, we join many other groups in the women’s health and rights community in our disappointment that he did not take a critical step toward lifting the current Medicaid coverage ban. President Obama could have taken this historic opportunity at the dawn of his second term in office to present a clean budget to Congress; he did not.

Every year politicians use the budget process to deny abortion coverage for women enrolled in any federal insurance plan. But it doesn’t have to be this way. A budget is a moral document: it reflects our values. [Emphasis added.]

Again, there are undeniable truths about this budget. It increases the amount of taxpayer money that will fund abortions, a move which most Americans disapprove of. It funds this is some “sneaky” ways. It increases the groups of women receiving abortion coverage as “health care”. And most undeniably, this budge makes a moral statement: President Obama doesn’t care that you don’t want your money to kill babies. He’s going to do it anyway. Just like the kid who steals the lunch money of the weaker classmate in the school bathroom, Obama’s going to take your taxpayer dollars and use it just the way he wants. That’s bullying.


TOPICS: Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: abortion; obama; obamabudget; obamacare; obamacarecosts; prolife
I guess no woman should be punished with a baby? /major sarc
1 posted on 04/12/2013 8:59:26 AM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Does this mean Kermit Gosnell is in line to get a cabinet post?


2 posted on 04/12/2013 9:04:18 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The ballot box is a sham. Nothing will change until after the war.)
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To: Morgana

He just can’t get enough of killing.

It’s a new experience for the inexperienced one whose only achievement in life was being a community agitator. His time in the Illinoise (sp) Legislature and the U. S. Senate was strictly as a backbencher. One wouldn’t even know he was there.


3 posted on 04/12/2013 9:04:53 AM PDT by IbJensen (Liberals are like Slinkies, good for nothing, but you smile as you push them down the stairs.)
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To: Morgana

Hummmm, President Obama and Margaret Sanger on the same page — whodathunkit

“The unbalance between the birth rate of the ‘unfit’ and the ‘fit,’ [is] the greatest present menace to civilization… the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.” Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood


4 posted on 04/12/2013 9:07:47 AM PDT by areukiddingme1 (areukiddingme1 is a synonym for a Retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer and tired of liberal BS.))
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To: areukiddingme1

Mark.


5 posted on 04/12/2013 9:11:16 AM PDT by sport
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To: Morgana

They will never be happy until there are extermination camps for abortion procedures. The happy leftist genocide continues.


6 posted on 04/12/2013 9:12:20 AM PDT by shankbear (The tree of Liberty appears to be perishing because there are few patriots willing to refresh it.)
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To: shankbear

Obama’s had a hand in killing more blacks than the Klan.


7 posted on 04/12/2013 9:19:08 AM PDT by GOP_Party_Animal
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To: Morgana

Any kid who’s mother had an abortion better sleep with one eye open,she may change her mind about you.


8 posted on 04/12/2013 9:41:40 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Morgana

all this junk in Obama’s budget will get the money ,when congress passes another bill to keep the government running ,Obama will never have a budget in his 20 + years at the WH


9 posted on 04/12/2013 10:56:43 AM PDT by molson209
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