Rep. Ron Paul, M.D. (R-Tx) Introduces Three Pro-Life Bills

Republican National Coalition for Life FaxNotes ^ | May 15, 2003

[cpforlife.org]

FaxNotes – May 15, 2003

Rep. Paul Introduces Three Pro-Life Bills – The following is a statement delivered in the U.S. House of Representatives on April 2, 2003, by Congressman Ron Paul, M.D.

“Mr. Speaker, I rise today to introduce three bills relating to abortion.

“First, the Freedom of Conscience Act of 2003 (H.R. 1548) prohibits any federal official from expending any federal funds for any population control or population planning program or any family planning activity. It is immoral to force the American taxpayers to subsidize programs and practices they find morally abhorrent.

“Second, I rise to introduce the Partial-birth Abortion Funding Ban Act of 2003 (H.R. 1545). This bill prohibits federal officials from paying any federal funds to any individual or entity that performs partial-birth abortions. The taxpayer must not be forced to fund this barbaric procedure.

“Finally, my Life-Protecting Judicial Limitation Act of 2003 (H.R. 1546) provides that the inferior courts of the United States do not have jurisdiction to hear abortion-related cases. Congress must use the authority granted to it in Article 3, Section 1 of the Constitution. The district courts of the United States, as well as the United States Court of Federal Claims, should not have the authority to hear these types of cases.

“Mr. Speaker, it is my hope that my colleagues will join me in support of these three bills. By following the Constitution and using the power granted to the Congress by this document, we can restore freedom of conscience and the sanctity of human life.” [emphasis added]

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These bills are pro-active measures that, if enacted, would greatly reduce the power and influence of the abortion lobby in this country and at the same time reduce the number of abortions and abortion-related activities currently funded with our tax dollars.

Please insist that your Member of Congress support Congressman Paul’s efforts by co-sponsoring these three bills. Capitol Switchboard – 202/224-3121.

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[Wolfie]

That Libertarian nut-job? Be careful who your friends are.

[He Rides A White Horse]

I know you were.

[Coleus]

If he is pro life the why is he appointing pro-abortion judges in New Jersey, his actions point to the contrary.

[ohioWfan]

If he isn't pro-life why are unborn children safer and more valued now when he was elected?

If he isn't pro-life why is progress being made on all fronts to end abortions.

If he isn't pro-life why are all the pro-life organizations we support THRILLED by what he is doing?

If he isn't pro-life then why do the pro-abortion demons hate him so much?

Anyone who says this President, who has done more to return us to a culture of life than ANY President has (including Reagan), is NOT Pro-life, is willfully blind.

That would be you, Coleus.

[ohioWfan]

more valued now THAN when he was elected

[billbears]

Well of course!! Probably the only conservative out of the 400+ members of Congress too. I think this information needs to be passed to every 'conservative' that we know. Show them what it means to be a conservative. Rather than falling behind the latest administration's version of conservatism as some cheerleader.

Bump for the hope one day there can be more leaders like Ron Paul in office

[headsonpikes]

A real, honest-to-God conservative bump.

[Coleus]

Please stop insulting Reagan, the last Republican President.

Listen, I go by FACTS and not BLIND FAITH, you should be mad at W For lying to America. First he stated that Jesus Christ was his main Philosopher then on the night of the Republican Convention he stated he was pro life then as President he appointed to the Federal Judiciary SIX, SIX, SIX, SIX, SIX, SIX, SIX, SIX, SIX, SIX, SIX, SIX, SIX, SIX, SIX, SIX, SIX, SIX, SIX, SIX, SIX, SIX, SIX, SIX, SIX, SIX, SIX, SIX, SIX, SIX, SIX, SIX, SIX, SIX, SIX, SIX, SIX, SIX, SIX, SIX, SIX, SIX, SIX, SIX, SIX, SIX, SIX, SIX, SIX, SIX, SIX, SIX, SIX, SIX, SIX, SIX, SIX, SIX, SIX, SIX,

Pro-Abortion (Culture-of-Death) Judges....!!! in New Jersey...

A very poor record for a supposedly Pro life President. If I didn't know better I'd swear his name is Bill Clinton, since I can't tell by his judiciary appointments. Why on earth would you think he's pro life when he appoints baby killers to the bench in NJ????

That is not the Actions of a pro life president...Maybe for you it is...I don't see the logic of your thinking if a president appoints abortionists to the bench, he is considered PRO LIFE...

New US Senate President, Bill Frist (R.-Tenn.), a Major Shareholder in Reputed For-Profit Abortion Provider

http://www.humaneventsonline.com/articles/12-23-02/jeffrey.htm

and supports stem-cell research, read last paragraph:

http://frist.senate.gov/testbed/press-item.cfm/hurl/id=183224

and

Senator Frist, R-TN championed confirmation
of pro-abortion Satcher,

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=30100

Bush isn't really pro life.

President Bush Appoints 6 Pro-Abortion Judges to the Federal Bench in NJ.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/794020/posts

Bush Funds Abortion Overseas
http://www.covenantnews.com/bortvote.htm#link

The Bush Family Secret
http://www.all.org/news/bushad2.pdf
A Catholic Response to Bush's Stem Cell Decision
http://www.all.org/abac/rf001.htm
http://www.all.org/issues/broken.htm
Do We Have A Pro-Life President?
http://www.all.org/celebrate_life/cl0107d.htm
http://www.house.gov/burton/RSC/word/Akin.PDF
http://www.all.org/stopp/rr0210.htm
other
http://www.all.org/stopp/rr0103.htm
http://www.all.org/stopp/rr0205.pdf
http://www.all.org/issues/scanalyz.htm

Bush funds 'Faith-Based Condom Religion'
Bush OK's NY Medicaid Plan For Contraceptives
http://www.all.org/stopp/st021004.htm

Bush Advances Legacy Of Bad Decisions,
Broken Promises And Dead Babies
http://www.all.org/news/020709.htm

Bush's gay-friendly judicial nominees...
Log Cabin Republicans Ease Intolerance
http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=14141

Planned Parenthood started out as an organization to enhance the eugenics movement and to kill off the minorities.

President Bush and Senate President Frist: Stop the Eugenics Movement and Condom Distributions in School, END TITLE X FUNDING NOW!!

http://blackgenocide.org/planned.html
http://www.blackgenocide.org/negro.html

Stop Planned Parenthood
http://www.all.org/stopp/

[ohioWfan]

George W. Bush is more actively pro-life than Reagan was. Period.

That's the main reason the left hates him so much.

[Coleus]

The Left hates any republican....Nixon, Reagan, both Bush's, etc. It has nothing to do with his pro or anti life record. If Bush were "pro" life he wouldn't have appointed not 5 but 6 "Pro abortion" "baby killing" judges to the federal judiciary in New Jersey and allow any and all fetal stem cell research in the private sector and allow the existing "federally funded" fetal cell lines to continue.

I would call Bush a great president, a great leader, a tax cutter, a compassionate president, a hard worker, a man who restored dignity and honor to the Oval Office and US Military, and a man who passed the LARGEST federal budget (more than Clinton) in US history, but I would NEVER call him a PRO LIFE president. How could I?

[ohioWfan]

but I would NEVER call him a PRO LIFE president. How could I?

Because he is.

The left doesn't hate him just because he's a Republican. They hate him with a vengeance because he's changing the culture of death in this country back to a culture of life.

I'm sorry your missing out on it.

[Coleus]

Morton Kondracke's column: Bush Could Face Big Fight in GOP Over Gay Issues
http://www.frc.org/?i=WU03E12#WA03E46

[ohioWfan]

You're changing the subject, Coleus.

These are good days for Christians in America because we have a President who speaks to his Heavenly Father daily.....even moment by moment, asking for guidance and wisdom, and I believe that there is ample evidence that he is being given what he asks for.

That doesn't mean he won't make mistakes, (and it certainly doesn't mean that he'll do everything YOU think he ought to do) but that's all the more reason to pray for him, and thank our merciful God that he is leading this great country at this difficult time.

If you continue looking for nits as you are, you're going to miss the beauty of what the Spirit of God is doing in America, and the joy of answered prayer that the vast majority of Christians are experiencing because of the Godly leadership of President Bush.

[Jhoffa_]

BUMP! FOR RON PAUL!

(Just when you get mad at him, he does something great..)

[ohioWfan]

btw, the 'right wing groups' Kondracke is talking about will never be satisfied with any position of moderation that this President takes. They want him to be a preacher, not a President.

IMO, some on the far right get their only happiness from being mad.

[Coleus]

Why Is Bush Perpetuating Clinton Policies?

May 21, 2003 by: Phyllis Schlafly

Why is President George W. Bush continuing policies that were initiated by Bill Clinton? The voters elected Bush to change obnoxious Clinton policies, and they don't understand why Bush is keeping the following seven in force.

1. One example is the Clinton Administration's abolition of the Army's "Risk Rule," which had exempted women in support units from areas that involve "inherent risk of capture." That policy change, ordered by the Clinton feminists, is the reason why a single mother of two very young children was killed in the Iraq war and another single mother of a two-year-old was taken as a POW.

When asked if this sending-moms-to-war policy might be changed, Bush said at his news conference, "That's going to be up to the generals." When Ari Fleischer fielded the follow-up questions, he accused the reporter of "dealing with ahypothetical."

But Jessica, Lori and Shoshana are not hypotheticals. They, and Shoshana's 2-year-old baby and Lori's three-and four-year-olds, are all victims of a Clinton policy that Bush could change with a stroke of his pen. But, according to Fleischer, this hasn't risen "to a higher policy level."

What's a higher policy level than defending mothers of infants against being killed or captured by the axis of evil? Keeping faith with a shameful Clinton policy? Fear of the frightful feminists who applaud our government giving Jessica, Lori and Shoshana their career opportunities on the battlefield, and who assert that mothers are fully deployable a few months after giving birth?

2. Why doesn't Bush terminate other Clinton rules that impose the feminist agenda on the military, such as coed basic training? The Army Training Command admitted that coed
basic training, which is gender-normed to reduce female injuries, is "not efficient" and of no military value.

That gave Bush a great chance to liberate the Army from
Clinton's foolish policy. Without presidential leadership, the generals are certainly not going to act on their own.

3. Nor, without a presidential decision, will the generals overturn Clinton's convoluted "don't ask, don't tell" enforcement regulations, which a federal Court of Appeals found to be inconsistent with the 1993 law banning homosexuals from the military.

4. The feminists in the Clinton Department of Education engaged in aggressive enforcement of Title IX, using bureaucratically invented words and rules that were not authorized by the statute. They used Title IX to punish men by forcing colleges to abolish 171 wrestling teams and hundreds of men's teams in gymnastics, swimming, golf and even football. President Bush appointed a commission to study the distortions of Title IX, but he foolishly gave some of the commission seats to feminists, and they used the media to grandstand for their side of the controversy. Secretary of Education Rod Paige then announced he would not implement any changes that were not unanimously recommended, so Clinton's anti-male policies about college athletics will continue under Bush.

5. The Clinton Administration persuaded Congress to pass a ban on semi-automatic assault rifles in 1994, and the ban will sunset next year. Senate Democrats have introduced a bill to continue the ban and, to the shock of the National Rifle Association, Bush announced that he supports the Democrats' bill.

President Bush seems to have forgotten that his steadfast support of Second Amendment rights was the main reason he carried the Democratic states of Arkansas, Tennessee and West Virginia in November 2000. If he had lost any one of
those, Al Gore would be president.

6. Then there is the matter of Clinton sending U.S. troops to Bosnia and its relation to the International Criminal Court (ICC) Treaty which Clinton's emissaries enthusiastically helped to write and Clinton signed as one of his last official acts. Bush had a wonderful opportunity to withdraw our troops from Bosnia when the ICC impudently asserted jurisdiction over Americans even though Bush had "unsigned" the ICC Treaty.

For a brief few days, Bush stood tall for the protection of
American service personnel by threatening to pull our troops
out of Bosnia unless the United Nations promised us immunity from the ICC. But then he wobbled, accepting a
lame compromise that left the U.S. with the almost impossible task of trying to negotiate separate immunity agreements with the 139 ICC countries, while at the same time keeping our troops on duty in Bosnia as a fig leaf to cover the ethnic hostility that is still as bitter and dangerous as ever.

7. Another Clinton policy, Executive Order 13166, requires all government agencies, and all entities receiving federal funds(such as doctors and hospitals), to provide their services inany foreign language demanded by a client. The perfect opportunity to rescind this costly unfunded mandate was served up when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled two years ago that no one has a right to demand government services in
languages other than English.

But President Bush chose to continue Clinton's pandering to
non- English speaking minorities. Regrettably, Bush breathed
new life into Clinton's EO 13166 with all its follies and costs.

We're still hoping for a repudiation these Clinton policies.

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[Coleus]

Right Wing?

The original point I made was about abortion and that Bush appointed 6 Pro-abortion Judges in NJ and therefore is not a "Pro-life" president, true he is more pro life than Clinton which is no big accomplishment since he was so much to the left on abortion. The platform of the Republican Party and not the right wing or conservative party is clearly pro life and mandates a Hunam Life Amendment to our Constitution against abortion and the nomination of Pro-life Judges, Bush has done neither as evidence in NJ and by not pushing for the amendment:

http://www.rnc.org/GOPInfo/Platform/2000platform4.htm

The Supreme Court’s recent decision, prohibiting states from banning partial-birth abortions — a procedure denounced by a committee of the American Medical Association and rightly branded as four-fifths infanticide — shocks the conscience of the nation. As a country, we must keep our pledge to the first guarantee of the Declaration of Independence. That is why we say the unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed. We support a human life amendment to the Constitution and we endorse legislation to make clear that the Fourteenth Amendment’s protections apply to unborn children. Our purpose is to have legislative and judicial protection of that right against those who perform abortions. We oppose using public revenues for abortion and will not fund organizations which advocate it. We support the appointment of judges who respect traditional family values and the sanctity of innocent human life.

[ohioWfan]

This is a question of expecting everything to be done at once.

I have a son in Baghdad, and I oppose the clinton policies of women's equality in the military that could put him in greater danger in a life and death situation........ but I do not expect that President Bush can change everything as quickly as we (or he) would like. The positive changes George W. Bush has made in the U.S. military already are immeasurable. I'm a glass half full person.

It comes down to this, Coleus. I trust the President. You don't. I respect him. You don't.

We're never going to agree.

[ohioWfan]

I was quoting Kondracke.

[jwalsh07]

Well, I never hesitated to bash Paul when I thought he deserved it.

So, here I am patting him on the back and saying thanks.