Planned Parenthood Spends 5 Million Dollars, to Get Congress

           to Restore Funds for Abortion Counseling

In  May of this year, the Supreme Court ruled in Rust v. Sullivan that
the  government  is  not  required  to fund the abortion propaganda of
Planned  Parenthood. This left the country's largest chain of abortion
mills,  those  run  by  Planned Parenthood, faced with the loss of $37
million  in yearly government subsidies. Both the U S House and Senate
have  passed  bills  which  would  nullify the pro-life Title 10 rules
which  prohibit  counseling and referral for abortion by clinics which
receive federal aid.

  Since  both  of  these  votes  were  taken by "voice," it is-hard to
identify  the  congressmen  and senators who voted for the restoration
of  funds.  However,  President  Bush  has  promised  to veto the pro-
abortion bills. . . .

In  the  meantime,  Planned  Parenthood is spending over $5 million to
get  Congress  to override the President's veto. The National Abortion
Rights  Action  League  has also launched a very expensive ad campaign
to  influence  congressional votes. So far, they have been successtul.
Many  pro-life  congressmen and senators have evidently switched their
votes.

  The  issue has been presented to the American people and to Congress
as  a  "freedom  of speech" issue by the pro-abortion media. They have
said  that  we  are  attempting  to interfere with a doctor's right to
counsel a patient as he thinks best.

  This  is UTTER NONSENSE: the Title 10 program is designed for family
planning  BEFORE  women  get  pregnant and deals with methods of birth
control  and  the  prevention  ot sexually transmitted diseases. Years
ago  in  establishing  this  program,  Congress  specifically excluded
abortion  and its promotion from the program. In over 80% of the cases
the  "counseling"  in  these  family planning clinics is not done by a
physician,   but  by  nurse  practitioners  and,  in  some  cases,  by
secretaries  or  other non-medical personnel.,ln fact, it is much more
typical  that  the  woman  or child does not see a physician until her
feet are in the stirrups and she is on the abortion clinic table.

  Once  a  woman  is  pregnant,  she doesn't need family planning; she
needs  obstetrical services. The facts are, there are no "Free Speech"
rights  being abridged here. No doctor in the privacy of his office is
being   prevented  from  counseling   anything  he  desires.  Only  in
federally-funded  family planning clinic where your tax money is being
used  to  counsel  and refer for abortion are there any limits to what
can  be  said  regarding "abortion as a mean of birth control." In the
most  recent poll, 84% of Americans object to the use of abortion as a
means of birth control.

   Planned   Parenthood  seems  to  be  afraid of losing some abortion
business.  Why  should the government reward the abortion pushers with
your  tax  dollars?  If  they feel that "Free Speech" is really such a
burning  issue,  then  why  have  they  fought  in  every instance any
attempt   to  enact  true  "Informed Consent" laws which would require
abortionists  to  tell  women  in  distress  the whole truth about the
developing   human  child, about the emptiness and heartache later and
about the alternatives which are available in her community?

   This battle is NOT about the First Amendment, or Free Speech; it is
designed  to  hide the truth that abortion stops a beating heart, that
it destroys the child in the mother's womb.

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