Posted on 01/24/2012 7:45:07 PM PST by Coleus
GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum is under fire in South Carolina for touting his alleged pro-life beliefs but voting to subsidize abortion and Planned Parenthood, the largest provider of abortions in America, while serving in the U.S. Senate. He has also backed pro-abortion candidates and voted for legislation that is being used to federally prosecute peaceful pro-life protesters who demonstrate outside of abortion clinics. Critics are outraged.
The once top-tier Republican candidate, who surged into the spotlight after an unexpected strong finish in Iowa before a disastrous showing in New Hampshire, defended himself against the attacks by lashing out at fellow GOP contender Rep. Ron Paul. He also argued that he voted for the unconstitutional appropriations used for terminating pregnancies, lobbying against pro-life legislation, handing out birth control, and litigating to keep abortion legal because they were part of bigger spending bills he supported.
A group called Iowans for Life first went after Santorum on the issue before the caucuses there, distributing fliers calling the former U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania a Pro-Life Fraud. The leaflets highlighted, among other points, the fact that Santorum had "a long and storied history of campaigning for radical pro-abortion candidates such as former Sen. Arlen Specter a Republican who later turned Democrat.
On January 13, Santorums record on abortion came back to haunt him again when he was confronted about voting to subsidize abortion and its apologists during a small town-hall meeting in South Carolina. He promptly attacked the questioner, accusing him of being a Ron Paul supporter. Then he plowed into a diatribe against the pro-life Texas Congressman, who finished a strong second in New Hampshire last week and is widely seen as a front-runner in the Republican race.
This is a very interesting thing, Santorum said, puzzled, apparently looking for the right words to answer a question he had not been expecting. There is nobody thats been a stronger pro-life leader in the United States Congress than I was. He also alleged inaccurately that Ron Paul, who has never voted to fund Planned Parenthood, did not have a solid record of defending life while in office.
Santorum continued his anti-Paul rant, accusing the 12-term Congressman of not voting for federal spending even while inserting earmarks into legislation in an effort to return money to his constituents from the federal government. But despite Santorums bumbling efforts to attack Ron Paul, analysts say the Texas veteran who delivered over 4,000 babies during his career as a doctor actually proposed the most effective way to constitutionally overturn Roe v. Wade.
Indeed, Paul introduced a bill known as the We The People Act to remove the Supreme Courts purported jurisdiction over abortion and other issues. He sponsored the legislation in every legislative session since at least 2004, though Santorum never got on board.
Santorum then continued to defend his vote by claiming that the funding was used for birth control. However, because money is fungible, few serious analysts accept the implied argument that tax funds for Planned Parenthood are not used to subsidize abortion. They undoubtedly are.
The program that hes talking about is a program called Title X, and its a program that is in appropriation bills that funds allows for funding of, uh, uh, uh of birth control, Santorum claimed when he eventually addressed the original question, carefully avoiding any mention of Planned Parenthoods far more lucrative abortion business or its pro-abortion lobbying. I am not for federal funding of that, but its in a big bill that provides a lot of things. Did I vote for that overall bill? Yes, I did. He then resumed his attacks on Paul for not supporting enough federal spending.
The legislation in question was also used to fund several other federal departments not authorized by the Constitution including Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education. But for many pro-life activists, voting for any bill that sends even a dime of tax money to an organization known to commit over 329,000 abortions every year is deal breaker let alone voting to appropriate almost half of a billion dollars for the abortionist cause.
One pro-life commentator in South Carolina, Brian Frank, wrote in the S.C. Hotline that Santorums vote to fund Planned Parenthood actually makes him a partner in crime of the ungodly murder of the innocent unborn. Frank assailed the GOP hopeful for other faults, too. Mr. Pro-life voted to have innocent Americans placed into the PP vegi-matic laboratories and enthusiastically campaigned for pro-abortion Arlen Specter against the more conservative Pat Toomey, the critic noted. He also said Santorum was mistaken if he believed his votes to fund Planned Parenthood could be hidden from Christians and pro-life activists.
Santorum also voted for the Democrat-sponsored Freedom of Access to [Abortion] Clinic Entrances Act, legislation purportedly making it a federal crime to interfere with a person seeking to terminate a pregnancy. As critics warned at the time, the bill has been used with increasing frequency to prosecute peaceful protesters. The former Senator vigorously campaigned for several rabidly pro-abortion candidates, too even against their pro-life opponents.
Beyond abortion, Santorums voting record in the Senate also includes other evidence that the GOP hopeful is not quite as conservative as he would like voters to believe. For example, he supported unconstitutional gun control, the Medicare Part D prescription drug program, raising the debt ceiling, invading Iraq without a declaration of war, and expanding the unconstitutional Department of Education. He also backed indefinite detentions, torture, removing habeas corpus, and other legislation repugnant to American traditions and the Constitution. But it has not gone unnoticed by his opponents.
As the GOP race heats up, in addition to his votes for Planned Parenthood and the law used to prosecute pro-life protesters, critics are also taking aim at Santorums consistent support for big government. Comments by the former Senator advocating a long war to eradicate many of the worlds more than one billion Muslims have been the focus of some criticism, too. And his vow to unilaterally and unconstitutionally attack Iran when elected if its government refuses to obey him has some analysts very nervous as well.
The reason the National Right to Life gave Paul that low 56% rating was based on his voting record, and you can check it out for yourself:
http://www.issues2000.org/Ron_Paul.htm#Abortion
No person, or organization is perfect, but what do you think of Ron Paul voting against parents’ rights, so their minor child can have an abortion w/o her parents’ permission. Besides killing their grandchild, the daughter’s health is in danger as well.
Here’s more on Ron Paul:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2821250/posts
I don’t know how Ron Paul got my email, but I’ve been getting automatic emails from Ron Paul bashing Ginchrich, and Santorum, but never Romney, and so much in Ron Paul’s robo calls, and emails, are lies, or exaggeration, so maybe we need to expose Ron Paul, too, as he is far worse!
Here is Ron Paul's position on abortion, he follows the US Constitution and doesn't vote on certain bills that would violate it.
http://www.ronpaul2012.com/the-issues/abortion/
Santorum is just another hypocrite politician who says one thing to Mother Angelica and RTL and Catholic Groups and does the opposite when he returns to congress. He tells them he's against the funding of planned parenthood and goes to congress approves the Title X appropriation that funds planned parenthood. We don't need people like him in the White House. He also was an absentee Senator only returning to Pennsylvania during the election cycle; that's one of the reasons why he wasn't reelected.
“On abortion, he is one of many senators who vote pro-life. The difference is that he is personally responsible for making sure a lot of these votes occur in the first place: He was an architect of the effort to ban partial-birth abortion, a strategy that energized the pro-life movement and allowed it to go on the political offensive.”
http://www.heymiller.com/2010/08/the-fate-of-rick/
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Differences between having a pro-life POTUS, or an anti-life POTUS:
“Soon after taking office, Obama took two actions in line with pledges made during his election campaign:
— He restored federal funding to the UNFPA, signing legislation containing a $50 million contribution to the agency. President Bush had defunded the UNFPA since 2002, invoking the 1985 Kemp-Kasten amendment which prohibits funding for any agency that supports or participates in the management of a program of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization. Bushs action deprived the UNFPA of a total of $244 million over the following years.
— Obama also rescinded the Mexico City Policy, a ban on funding for international health groups that perform or promote abortions. Dubbed the global gag rule by opponents, the regulation was instituted by President Reagan in 1984, reversed by President Clinton in 1993, and revived by President Bush in 2001.”
more http://cnsnews.com/news/article/white-house-must-prove-its-opposition-ch
Father Pavone wrote a more thorough article, but I can’t find it right now. But yes, we do need more TRUE pro-lifers in politics.
Ron Paul erroneously believes that states’ rights supersede the God-given inalienable rights of life and liberty. No way do we want him in the White House.
I’ll go with Santorum, who walks the walk in his personal life, and has been effective in politics.
“* The fighter: Put simply, almost nobody is more willing to engage in a political fight than Santorum. Hes already mixing things up in the GOP primary, hitting Mitt Romney for the health care bill that Romney signed as governor of Massachusetts and Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels for his social issues truce..”
Santorum Never Voted to Subsidize Abortion, Planned Parenthood , >>>>>
I’m afraid he did...
for Title X funding and increasing it yearly during the Bush administration, over 30 million more in a few years.
So, planned parenthood buys a building in NYC. How do you think they got the money? Did it fall from the sky or did they get it from republicans voting for the Title X appropriation???? Thanks to the so- called, pro-life republicans who vote for Title X funding every year when they vote on the Labor, Health & Education omnibus bill. In fact, if you see below, the funding of Title X went up over $30 million during the Republican Bush, Hastert, Snot-torum, Smith, Hyde and Pence administrations. One thing you can count on with pro-life republicans in charge are large, increasing budgets, budget deficits and increasing Title X funding so Planned Barrenhood could build more buildings and increase more programs.... Alleluia for the republicrat party.
GovTrack: HR 3010: Text of Legislation
17 That of the funds made available under this heading,
18 $285,963,000 shall be for the program under title X of
19 the Public Health Service Act to provide for voluntary
20 family planning projects: Provided further, That amounts
21 provided to said projects under such title shall not be ex-
22 pended for abortions, that all pregnancy counseling shall
23 be nondirective, and that such amounts shall not be ex-
24 pended for any activity (including the publication or dis-
25 tribution of literature) that in any way tends to promote
Planned Parenthood Kills over 250,000 children per year by "surgical abortion" , it's the largest abortion provider in the USA.
Funds abortifacient Killing using: birth control pills, Depo-Provera, Plan-b, etc.
Funds birth control to unmarried adolescents so they can continue to fornicate by engaging in pre-marital sex, even usurping parental authority if the adolescent's parents say "no" to government-funded birth control drugs and devices for their adolescent child.
Our tax money pays for this by the self-proclaimed "Pro-Life," "Pro-Family," "Pro-Abstinence" liars in the Republican-majority Congress. Wake up America.
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2005/roll628.xml
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2005/roll321.xml
Yeas | Nays | PRES | NV | |
Republican | 206 | 10 | 14 | |
Democratic | 44 | 140 | 18 | |
Independent | 1 | |||
TOTALS | 250 | 151 | 32 |
Abercrombie Aderholt Akin Alexander Bachus Baker Barrett (SC) Bartlett (MD) Barton (TX) Bass Bean Beauprez Biggert Bilirakis Bishop (GA) Bishop (UT) Blackburn Blunt Boehlert Boehner Bonilla Bonner Bono Boren Boswell Boucher Boustany Bradley (NH) Brady (PA) Brady (TX) Brown (SC) Brown-Waite, Ginny Burgess Burton (IN) Buyer Calvert Cannon Cantor Carter Castle Chabot Chocola Coble Cole (OK) Conaway Costello Cox Cramer Crenshaw Cubin Culberson Cunningham Davis (IL) Davis (KY) Davis (TN) Davis, Jo Ann Deal (GA) DeLay Dent Diaz-Balart, L. Diaz-Balart, M. Dicks Doolittle Doyle Drake Dreier Duncan Ehlers Emerson Engel English (PA) Evans Everett Farr Feeney Ferguson Fitzpatrick (PA) Foley Forbes Fortenberry Fossella Foxx Frelinghuysen Gallegly |
Garrett (NJ) Gerlach Gilchrest Gillmor Gingrey Gonzalez Goodlatte Gordon Granger Graves Green (WI) Gutknecht Hall Hart Hastings (WA) Hayes Hayworth Hensarling Herger Higgins Hinojosa Hobson Hoekstra Holden Holt Hostettler Hulshof Hunter Hyde Inglis (SC) Issa Istook Jenkins Jindal Johnson (CT) Johnson (IL) Johnson, Sam Kanjorski Keller Kelly Kennedy (MN) Kildee King (IA) King (NY) Kingston Kirk Kline Knollenberg Kolbe Kuhl (NY) LaHood Latham Leach Lewis (CA) Lewis (KY) Linder LoBiondo Lucas Lungren, Daniel E. Mack Manzullo Marchant Marshall Matsui McCaul (TX) McCotter McCrery McHenry McHugh McKeon McMorris Meehan Mica Miller (FL) Miller (MI) Miller, Gary Mollohan Murphy Murtha Musgrave Myrick Neal (MA) Neugebauer Ney |
Northup Norwood Nussle Ortiz Osborne Oxley Pascrell Pearce Pence Peterson (PA) Petri Pickering Pitts Platts Poe Pombo Pomeroy Porter Price (GA) Pryce (OH) Putnam Radanovich Rahall Regula Rehberg Reichert Renzi Reynolds Rogers (KY) Rogers (MI) Rohrabacher Ros-Lehtinen Rothman Royce Ruppersberger Rush Ryan (WI) Ryun (KS) Saxton Schwarz (MI) Scott (GA) Sensenbrenner Serrano Sessions Shadegg Shaw Shays Sherwood Shimkus Shuster Simpson Smith (NJ) Smith (TX) Sodrel Souder Sullivan Sweeney Terry Thomas Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Thornberry Tiahrt Tiberi Towns Turner Upton Visclosky Walden (OR) Walsh Wamp Weldon (FL) Weldon (PA) Weller Westmoreland Whitfield Wicker Wilson (SC) Wolf Wynn Young (AK) Young (FL) |
Ackerman Allen Baird Baldwin Barrow Berkley Berry Bishop (NY) Blumenauer Brown (OH) Brown, Corrine Butterfield Capps Capuano Cardin Cardoza Carnahan Carson Case Chandler Clay Cleaver Clyburn Conyers Cooper Costa Crowley Cuellar Cummings Davis (AL) Davis (CA) Davis (FL) DeFazio DeGette DeLauro Dingell Doggett Edwards Emanuel Eshoo Etheridge Filner Flake Ford Frank (MA) Franks (AZ) Gibbons Green, Al Green, Gene Grijalva Hastings (FL) |
Hefley Herseth Hinchey Honda Hooley Hoyer Inslee Israel Jackson (IL) Jackson-Lee (TX) Jefferson Johnson, E. B. Jones (OH) Kaptur Kennedy (RI) Kilpatrick (MI) Kind Kucinich Langevin Lantos Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Lee Levin Lipinski Lofgren, Zoe Lowey Lynch Maloney Markey Matheson McCarthy McCollum (MN) McDermott McGovern McIntyre McKinney McNulty Meek (FL) Melancon Menendez Michaud Millender-McDonald Miller (NC) Miller, George Moore (KS) Moore (WI) Moran (VA) Nadler Napolitano Oberstar |
Obey Olver Otter Owens Pallone Pastor Paul Payne Pelosi Peterson (MN) Price (NC) Ramstad Rangel Ross Roybal-Allard Ryan (OH) Sabo Salazar Sánchez, Linda T. Sanchez, Loretta Sanders Schakowsky Schiff Schwartz (PA) Scott (VA) Sherman Simmons Smith (WA) Snyder Solis Spratt Stark Stearns Strickland Stupak Tancredo Tauscher Tierney Udall (CO) Van Hollen Velázquez Wasserman Schultz Waters Watt Waxman Weiner Wexler Woolsey Wu |
Andrews Baca Becerra Berman Boozman Boyd Camp Capito Davis, Tom Delahunt Fattah |
Gohmert Goode Gutierrez Harman Harris Jones (NC) LaTourette Lewis (GA) Meeks (NY) Moran (KS) Nunes |
Reyes Rogers (AL) Skelton Slaughter Tanner Taylor (MS) Taylor (NC) Udall (NM) Watson Wilson (NM) |
notice the increases in the Bush - Hastert - Frist administrations, all Christians, a $30 million increase in about 5 years.
http://www.hhs.gov/opa/about-opa-and-initiatives/funding-history/
Notice the appropriations in RED by the Republican Majority House under Republican Bush, it doesn't appear that any of these republicans are against Title X appropriations and Increasing the funding for Planned Parenthood.
Fiscal Year | Office of Family Planning Total Funds Appropriated Title X |
---|---|
2008 | 299,981,000 |
2007 | 283,146,000 |
2006 | 283,103,000 |
2005 | 285,977,000 |
2004 | 278,348,000 |
2003 | 273,350,000 |
2002 | 265,000,000 |
2001 | 253,932,000 |
2000 | 238,885,000 |
1999 | 215,000,000 |
1998 | 203,452,000 |
1997 | 198,452,000 |
1996 | 192,592,000 |
1995 | 193,349,000 |
1994 | 180,918,000 |
1993 | 173,418,000 |
1992 | 149,585,000 |
1991 | 144,311,000 |
1990 | 139,135,000 |
1989 | 138,320,000 |
1988 | 139,663,000 |
1987 | 142,500,000 |
1986 | 136,372,000 |
1985 | 142,500,000 |
1984 | 140,000,000 |
1983 | 124,088,000 |
1982 | 124,176,000 |
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=1&vote=00349U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 109th Congress - 1st Session
as compiled through Senate LIS by the Senate Bill Clerk under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate
Question: On the Motion (Specter Motion to Instruct Conferees Re: H.R. 3010 ) | |||
Vote Number: | 349 | Vote Date: | November 18, 2005, 11:27 AM |
Required For Majority: | 1/2 | Vote Result: | Motion Agreed to |
Measure Number: | H.R. 3010 (Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006 ) | ||
Measure Title: | A bill making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2006, and for other purposes. |
Vote Counts: | YEAs | 66 |
NAYs | 28 | |
Not Voting | 6 |
Vote Summary | By Senator Name | By Vote Position | By Home State |
Akaka (D-HI), Yea Alexander (R-TN), Nay Allard (R-CO), Nay Allen (R-VA), Nay Baucus (D-MT), Yea Bayh (D-IN), Yea Bennett (R-UT), Yea Biden (D-DE), Not Voting Bingaman (D-NM), Yea Bond (R-MO), Yea Boxer (D-CA), Yea Brownback (R-KS), Nay Bunning (R-KY), Nay Burns (R-MT), Yea Burr (R-NC), Yea Byrd (D-WV), Yea Cantwell (D-WA), Yea Carper (D-DE), Nay Chafee (R-RI), Nay Chambliss (R-GA), Nay Clinton (D-NY), Yea Coburn (R-OK), Yea Cochran (R-MS), Yea Coleman (R-MN), Yea Collins (R-ME), Yea Conrad (D-ND), Yea Cornyn (R-TX), Nay Corzine (D-NJ), Not Voting Craig (R-ID), Nay Crapo (R-ID), Nay Dayton (D-MN), Yea DeMint (R-SC), Nay DeWine (R-OH), Yea Dodd (D-CT), Yea |
Dole (R-NC), Yea Domenici (R-NM), Yea Dorgan (D-ND), Yea Durbin (D-IL), Yea Ensign (R-NV), Not Voting Enzi (R-WY), Nay Feingold (D-WI), Yea Feinstein (D-CA), Yea Frist (R-TN), Yea Graham (R-SC), Nay Grassley (R-IA), Yea Gregg (R-NH), Nay Hagel (R-NE), Yea Harkin (D-IA), Yea Hatch (R-UT), Yea Hutchison (R-TX), Yea Inhofe (R-OK), Nay Inouye (D-HI), Not Voting Isakson (R-GA), Nay Jeffords (I-VT), Yea Johnson (D-SD), Yea Kennedy (D-MA), Yea Kerry (D-MA), Yea Kohl (D-WI), Yea Kyl (R-AZ), Nay Landrieu (D-LA), Yea Lautenberg (D-NJ), Yea Leahy (D-VT), Yea Levin (D-MI), Yea Lieberman (D-CT), Yea Lincoln (D-AR), Nay Lott (R-MS), Nay Lugar (R-IN), Yea Martinez (R-FL), Yea |
McCain (R-AZ), Nay McConnell (R-KY), Nay Mikulski (D-MD), Yea Murkowski (R-AK), Yea Murray (D-WA), Yea Nelson (D-FL), Yea Nelson (D-NE), Not Voting Obama (D-IL), Yea Pryor (D-AR), Nay Reed (D-RI), Nay Reid (D-NV), Yea Roberts (R-KS), Nay Rockefeller (D-WV), Yea Salazar (D-CO), Yea Santorum (R-PA), Yea Sarbanes (D-MD), Yea Schumer (D-NY), Yea Sessions (R-AL), Nay Shelby (R-AL), Yea Smith (R-OR), Yea Snowe (R-ME), Yea Specter (R-PA), Yea Stabenow (D-MI), Not Voting Stevens (R-AK), Yea Sununu (R-NH), Yea Talent (R-MO), Yea Thomas (R-WY), Nay Thune (R-SD), Yea Vitter (R-LA), Nay Voinovich (R-OH), Yea Warner (R-VA), Yea Wyden (D-OR), Yea |
Vote Summary | By Senator Name | By Vote Position | By Home State |
He's faithful to his cause.
I haven’t had time to do more reseach, but haven’t forgotten.
tough, if you post to a thread, you are fair game....
they must mean snot torum.
all the info is in post 68...
Fine by me.
You wanna be the rabbit then so be it.
another great myth...
Catholics vote Democrat with rare exception as a rule in national elections
the pro abort party
would that the Catholics voted in reality like some here fantasize...we would have no problems politically
many die hard Prods vote more solid as anti abortion.....the sound polemics of Catholic clergy notwithstanding
It might be the Catholics In Name Only, for the most part, who vote for pro-aborts. Pelosi, Kennedy, et al, are Catholics In Name Only, for instance.
My husband, and I, are Catholics who attend church each week (or more), and vote for pro-lifers - pro-life candidates are our litmus test.
Newt had a little confusion about life beginning at conception (can’t remember the whole story), but he got it right after studying the Catholic version better.
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