Boehner: End Abortion This Year By Laura Bassett | HuffPost | 01/25/2013 4:04 pm EST Excerpts: As thousands braved sub-freezing temperatures in Washington, D.C., on Friday to join the anti-abortion protest March for Life, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) took the opportunity to reiterate his commitment to banning abortion in America for good. Via video broadcast, Boehner said it's time for anti-abortion activisits to "commit ourselves to doing everything we can to protect the sanctity of life." "For the new Congress, that means bringing together a bipartisan pro-life majority and getting to work," Boehner said. ... we will again work to pass the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, formally codifying the Hyde Amendment." Boehner said he will make it a national priority to "help make abortion a relic of the past." "Let that be one of our most fundamental goals this year," he said. The March for Life attracted a diverse crowd of young and old protesters from across the country. Hundreds of parents had bundled up their infants and toddlers and strapped protest signs to their strollers. Michael Kennedy, 33, and his wife Bethany, who is pregnant, drove their four children down from Westerly, Rhode Island to stand in 20-degree weather on the Mall. "They're troopers," Bethany told HuffPost. "We felt like we have a responsibility just to be a witness to everyone else, to see that this is life, our children. We needed to be here." Several lawmakers made it out to the protest to address the crowd in person. Rep. Diane Black (R-Tenn.) touted a bill she recently introduced that would strip Title X family planning funds from Planned Parenthood, and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) delivered a sermon that called for a "spiritual cleansing." "Our nation is adrift, adrift in a wilderness where right and wrong have become subservient to a hedonism of the moment," Paul said. "I believe our country is in need of a spiritual cleansing." He added, "We much preach a gospel so full of compassion, a gospel so full of justice that it cannot be resisted. Then and only then will the law again protect the innocent." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/25/john-boehner-abortion-march-for-life_n_2552597.html ..... It never fails, when things get hot for republican credibility, they pull out the old abortion relic out of their bag of tricks because it is such a saliva-producing gimmick for low-flying conservatives. During political campaigns it is a sure winner to excite republicans who have a deep need to try to control other peoples lives. That is what Boehner was doing when he addressed the maladjusted, anti-abortion crowd that on cue will go into action against a long-standing law that they are actively seeking to overturn. Is this Democracy, or life under a Gestapo system of governing? And Rand Paul is as psycho as ever when he said that Our country is in need of a spiritual cleansing. Thats weird because that is what most Americans feel about Congress... But the way republicans pull their abortion stance out of their azz when they need it, is particularly disgusting in that their overly protective views on a clump of cells denoting a womans pregnancy is not matched by their ignoring the plight of cells they love so well preceding birth, but after birth may live in abusive homes, in foster homes, and in orphanages. Their silence is deafening on that subject.
It's ringing the dinner bell for the mindless masses on the right. Amazing how easily they are manipulated and controlled. Never mind they ran on "jobs,jobs, jobs" then did everything they could to hold back any job creation, forget they ran on 'it's the debt'! then spent like drunken sailors. No forget all that, the realfight is the one they keep losing on...abortion. Amazing.
It's been against the law for decades, several laws in fact. How many more does the right think we need? Not only that but my god the tiny amount even if we funded every abortion is not even worth talking about let alone all the whining and crying the right does over it. In your life time your share would be about 3 cents. Get over it already.
Yeah, and the law has been changed twice, for the better, so far. We just need to make sure it doesn't change for the worse. And why does everything have to be about money? Sometimes you do something because it's the right thing to do, not because it saves a ton of money.
Federally speaking, he's correct, unless you're counting abortions due to rape/incest, or ones in which the mother's life is in danger. Seventeen states, however, allow taxpayer money to pay for abortions; thirteen of those are by court order.
Planned parenthood is the number one provider of abortions in our country.... where do you think the money comes from? Planned Parenthood is the largest U.S. provider of reproductive health services, including cancer screening, HIV screening and counseling, contraception, and abortion.
ah lets me check out there origins. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_Parenthood her mother was a feminist you know http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Sanger mothers profile here Michael Hennessy Higgins check out the super feminist jew connection here with Emma Goldman http://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/secure/newsletter/articles/index.html
FYI, learn something before you post, the Henry Hyde Amendment prohibits federal funds for abortions, that 1976. - - - Updated - - - The Right Wing Insanity Group reels in another sucker, in the name of John Boehner.
As long as the government still provides money to PP, most of that is going for abortion services, whether they say it does or not.
The government provides funds via medicaid for abortions: Medicaid funds that go into state coffers are fungible. You have Ayatollah obama's word on that. Which he could change tomorrow with the stroke of a pen. Nice dictator.
The latest act would make the current restrictions on abortion funding permenant and unalterable, unlike the Hyde Amendment, which is not formal law and has been altered at least twice. Learn something before you post . -
If it is only about morals, we should stop funding the abomination of hypocrisy as well. - - - Updated - - - I support improving our infrastructure to where the medical procedure of abortion may be considered obsolete in modern times.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyde_Amendment In U.S. politics, the Hyde Amendment is a legislative provision barring the use of certain federal funds to pay for abortions with exceptions for incest and rape.[1] It is not a permanent law, rather it is a "rider" that, in various forms, has been routinely attached to annual appropriations bills since 1976. The Hyde Amendment applies only to funds allocated by the annual appropriations bill for the Department of Health and Human Services. It primarily affects Medicaid. The original Hyde Amendment was passed on September 30, 1976 by the House of Representatives, by a 207-167 vote. It was named for its chief sponsor, Republican Congressman Henry Hyde of Illinois. The measure was a response to the Supreme Court 1973 case Roe v. Wade which legalizing abortion, and represented the first major legislative success by the United States pro-life movement, also known as the United States anti-abortion movement. Congress subsequently altered the Hyde Amendment several times. The version in force from 1981 until 1993 prohibited the use of federal funds for abortions “except where the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term.”[2] On October 22, 1993, President Clinton signed into law the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1994.[3]  The Act contained a new version of the Hyde Amendment that expanded the category of abortions for which federal funds are available under Medicaid to include cases of rape and incest.[4]   That's my argument.
Why is it about money? You tell me, I'm not the one whining about it, you are. - - - Updated - - - No it's completely true.
They get funding from a great number of places, mostly from charging the patents themselves. It is against the law to use federal money for abortions, period.
That is just a lie. Besides, even if every dollar was used for abortions the amount is so small your life time share is about 3 cents.
Then why did you whine about money? If it wasn't about money then why bring it up in your FIRST post? And lets face it, it has nothing to do with personal responsibility with the right wing, it has everything to do with big Govt control. And money is just the vehicle. If it were about personal responsibility then the right would be funding education and birth control. We saw first hand the foam at the mouth fit the right had over birth control didn't we? Face it, the abortion and birth control thing is about controlling women and nothing more than that. It's a losing issue for the right, always has been.
That happened years ago. It's too bad that so many conserviates seem to base their remarks on pre concienved notions rather than facts. We passed welfare reform nearly 20 years ago, and significantly fewer people are on it than were then. Yet right wingers are STILL ranting about welfare queens as if nothing had ever happened. Ditto this favorite anti abortion chesnut. Guess you never heard of the Hatch Amendment?
