Interested to learn which Republican currently supports tax-payer funding of abortion—i.e., wants to make you and me pay for abortions.
Where can we see the list of those who voted FOR this?
Important as this particular issue is, there is an underlying much more general one which permeates government and our entire society.
Where is it written in the Constitution that any activity or “service” which is not illegal should be funded by the taxpayer?
It’s not against the law, I want it, ipso facto the “government” should pay for it.
But what happened to the part that banned all abortions after the age of 20 weeks? (when the baby can feel pain) They seemed to drop that part, so that it is still OK to torture and abort them, the Feds are just not going to pay for it.
How much money are they going to continue to give to Planned Parenthood, and other wicked organizations like it, under the guise of “family planning”?
I’d like to see the bill. Do you have a link?
When mentioning "federal system", are they talking about abortions performed in federally run/funded facilities or are they talking about funding mechanisms?
If PP is not considered part of the "federal system" mentioned here then, although this is a step in the right direction, it does not go far enough in stripping those ghouls of funding.
Since they know that Obama would never sign such a bill, I can only conclude the reason for doing this is to give the Dems the ability to shout “Republicans want to ban abortions!” from the rooftops, thereby giving Hillary an edge in 2016.
It still won’t get 60 votes in the senate.
Thats crazy, there are NO tax payer funded abortions, Rep. Stupak held his ground and was assured that abortions were off the table, …remember? /sarc
PS: Its not my job to keep score, but I am confident that there is a special place in HELL for that piece of sh1t BART STUPAK ( D) Michigan
Given that in most cases, abortion is an elective, not a necessary medical procedure I can’t understand why any insurance (government or otherwise) program would pay for it. I mean, they don’t pay for nose jobs, do they? Just MHO!
Nice kabuki theater.
Meaningless.
If it doesn’t stop giving money to Planned Parenthood, it is an empty gesture.
First, the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to tax and spend to pay for abortions. So this bill is arguably a step towards restoring the constitutional republic.
Except that I’m not buying it for the following reasons.
I don’t think that RINO-controlled Senate would have enough votes to pass the House anti-abortion bill, corrections welcome. And even if Senate passed the bill, the Sentate probably doesn’t have the 2/3 majority majority vote, probably neither the House (corrections welcome) to override an Obama veto of such a bill.
So I think that House RINOs are just politicking less then two years before 2016 election day, hoping that women forget that they passed this anti-abortion bill by that time.
So much for my “the glass is half empty” perspective. What do die-hard, optimistic DC patriots think, if there are any?
Window dressing vote and a dumb bill that will never make it through the Senate. We need to put bills on Obama’s desk that are popular and that get people back to work. Once we’ve proven we can handle the economy, then we’ll easily pass bills on social issues. That’s how you hold onto Congress for a generation and elect a GOP President.
That’s totally unnecessary. Bart Stupak and his Blue Dog allies prevented any use of Obamacare funds as the bill was passed. Obama gave Stupak his assurances, so we know no government funds are being used to finance abortions.
This is good. What’s better is knowing that thousands of feminazis are creaming their depends.
DOA at Obama’s desk. Good try though.
And it dies in the Senate.
Or is Vetoed by the President.
No matter how you slice it, this bill isn’t going anywhere.