Posted on 04/23/2005 11:24:21 AM PDT by RKBA Democrat
Democrats unveiled a policy proposal yesterday, which is intended to reduce the number of abortions in the United States. The proposal, called the "95-10 Initiative", includes 15 different policy programs that, when fully funded and implemented, are expected to reduce abortions by 95 percent over 10 years.
The policy proposal strongly promotes the adoption option. It provides for permanent adoption tax credits, counseling for women with unplanned pregnancies and pregnancy resource centers, where women can receive information about adoption as well as support to carry the baby to term.
Congressman Tim Ryan (D-OH) announced at yesterdays press conference that he plans to introduce legislation, modeled on the 95-10 Initiative, in Congress soon.
"Our party has made more progress on this issue in the last three months than we have in the last 10 years, said former congressman and 9-11 Commissioner, Tim Roemer.
"The 95-10 Initiative is our number-one priority, said Kristen Day, executive director of Democrats For Life of America, a nonprofit pro-life group that joined politicians at yesterdays press conference. She said the proposal has been met favorably by both pro-life and pro-choice advocates and elected officials.
Among the elected officials behind the 95-10 Initiative are Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson (D-NE), Congressman Tim Ryan (D-OH), Congressman Jerry Costello (D-IL) and Congressman Collin Peterson (D-MN).
This won't sit well with the feminazis.
I'll have to look into this more deeply! Sounds on the surface like a wise direction to head ...
Just a Potemkin village.
Figured you might find this article interesting.
"The proposal, called the "95-10 Initiative", includes 15 different policy programs ..." I would like to read what the 15 policy programs are, before signing on to this ...
Funny but other options have always been available but no one was allowed to talk about them. Now they want to get credit for this?
If true, good. I must say, though, I'll believe it when I see it.
(Not that I don't trust them, but... I don't trust them.)
Gee, thanks for this "unique" and "original" proposal a couple of decades too late.
Planned Parenthood will be outraged.
I'd have to look at it more deeply as well. Frankly, I was a bit blindsided by it. I expected something like this to happen, but not quite so soon.
I don't think that we're going to get rid of abortion in the legal sense given our current courts and the general lack of intestinal fortitude demonstrated by our political leadership.
Eliminating abortion is ultimately the goal.
Nice try by the democrats but as Ann Coulter says... One way to make abortion rare is by making it illegal.
Planned Parenthood and their various allies, and they are many, will fight this tooth and nail -- take that to the bank.
The proposal, called the "95-10 Initiative", includes 15 different policy programs that, when fully funded and implemented, are expected to reduce abortions
I think one of the policy programs involves increased funding of sex-ed programs which normalize sodomy.
Translation: More funding for Planned Parenthood. Yeah, that'll work.
Their stated aim can be accomplished at much cheaper cost, and would not require a lot of programs: by pasting around sufficient number of ugly liberal visages (think Helen Thomas for an example) most pregnancies would be ending early and spontaneously, with no abortions needed. But this would risk desolating and depopulating the country.
"The proposal, called the "95-10 Initiative", includes 15 different policy programs ..." I would like to read what the 15 policy programs are, before signing on to this ...
Shouldn't that be 85-15?
Or why liberals can't read?
Leave it to the democrats to fix what they, themselves broke by proposing a whole slough of government programs, instead of in the courts where they broke it in the first place.
Oh, I get it now, 95% in ten years.
And someone actually believes this?
Even outlawing abortion completely you couldn't
make this happen.
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