Action Alert: Congressman Pence’s Amendment to Defund Planned Parenthood
February 17, 2011 // afaofpa // Action Alerts, Life Issues, PoliticsAFA of PA ACTION ALERT
February 17, 2011
Issue
2012 Federal Budget and Pro-Life Provisions
Details
The US House is taking up the bill to fund the federal government in a section by section process that only allows for amendments when the appropriate section is reached in debate. When the House came to the right section, abortion advocates were expected to offer as many as six amendments in an attempt to push taxpayers to fund abortions or groups that promote and perform abortions.
House Democrats were expected to press for amendments to overturn pro-life budget provisions during last night’s debate on the continuing resolution. However no amendments were introduced! This led to a major pro-life victory here in the beginning of this long fight over the budget.
Pro-life provisions in the bill include cutting Title X family planning funds, restoring and making permanent the Mexico City Policy, and yanking funding for the pro-abortion UNFPA,
Theories abound as to why the Democrats did not bring up the amendments. Either they did not want to be soundly defeated by a majority pro-life House or they are depending on the conference committee or the Senate to strip out the pro-life provisions.
Another step in the budget process: Congress will vote this afternoon on Rep. Mike Pence’s (R-IN) Amendment No. 11 to the budget bill — H.R. 1. This amendment would prevent government funding for Planned Parenthood which received over $360,000,000 in taxpayer dollars last year.
Action Step
1.) Contact your Congressman and ask him or her to vote ‘yes’ on Representative Pence’s Amendment No. 11 on HR 1. Click here for contact info – please make two phone calls – don’t e-mail because of the time constrains – your Congressman’s district office nearest you AND his DC office.
Topics: abortion, federal budget, Mike Pence, Planned Parenthood, pro-life
Family planning MUST be made part of our health and world security agenda. Vote No for Pence amendment re: family planning
The planet’s sustainability is at stake now due to unplanned births.
Due to U.S. support for family planning, more than 26 million women in the poorest countries in the world are able to delay or prevent pregnancy.
The UN estimates that 201 million women have no family planning resulting 52 million unwanted pregnancies, 22 million abortions and 1.4 million infant deaths annually. That is more than double the number of deaths per year during World War II! Let this be in the conscience of congressmen
Bangladesh calculated that each $62 of government spending on family planning would save $615 in other social services. Free family planning education and services included requirements such as passing family-planning exams before obtaining a marriage license. The 11 million deaths that take place yearly due to hunger worldwide would be prevented if we did not have such overwhelming overpopulation problem that is exhausting all natural resources
OUR PLANET WILL BECOME UNINHABITABLE WITHIN 100-200 YEARS BECAUSE 2 BILLION MORE PEOPLE WILL BE BORN in 20 YEARS IF WE DO NOT ADDRESS THIS.
Prof Fenner and the National Academy of Sciences: http://homelandsecuritynewswire.com/humans-will-be-extinct-100-years-fenner
Killing babies should never be part of our nation’s policies.
According to the U.N. Population Database, using the historically accurate low variant projection, the Earth’s population will only add another billion people or so over the next thirty years, peaking around 8.02 billion people in the year 2040, and then it will begin to decline.
Paul Ehrlich missed the mark in his 1968 work The Population Bomb In it he stated:
“The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s the world will undergo famines–hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now.”
According to the U.N. Population Database, the world’s population in 2010 was 6,908,688,000. The landmass of Texas is 268,820 sq mi (7,494,271,488,000 sq ft).
So, divide 7,494,271,488,000 sq ft by 6,908,688,000 people, and you get 1084.76 sq ft/person. That’s approximately a 33′ x 33′ plot of land for every person on the planet, enough space for a town house.
Given an average four person family, every family would have a 66′ x 66′ plot of land, which would comfortably provide a single family home and yard — and all of them fit on a landmass the size of Texas. Admittedly, it’d basically be one massive subdivision, but Texas is a tiny portion of the inhabitable Earth.