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December 22, 2008

Obama plans billion-dollar 'bailout' for abortion industry

Topics: Abortion
Via Politics and Government, a pro-life group in Washington has launched a campaign to oppose what it calls president-elect Barack Obama's planned $1.5 billion "bailout" of the abortion industry.

Last week, the Obama-Biden Transition Project posted a report on its website that calls for dramatic policy reversals on abortion, including $1 billion in taxpayer money for international abortion groups like Planned Parenthood. The report, titled "Advancing Reproductive Rights and Health in a New Administration," also calls for a 133-percent increase in funding for the Title X program, which funds Planned Parenthood clinics across the country.

Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, is hoping a Republican-led effort in the Senate will block Obama's plan to substantially increase taxpayer funding of the abortion industry.

[...] The Susan B. Anthony List has started a "Stop the Abortion Bailout" campaign designed to recruit thousands of activists to send letters to their senators "with the goal of securing the 41 votes necessary to sustain a Senate filibuster of the abortion bailout."

No surprise here, Barack Obama's record on abortion is extreme - he even opposed the ban on partial-birth abortion, a practice a fellow Democrat, the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan, once called "too close to infanticide." And Obama has oddly claimed he would not want his daughters to be "punished with a baby" because of a crisis pregnancy -- "hardly a welcoming attitude toward new life." The very fact that he was elected is very telling of America's respect for the sanctity of life.

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