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For Immediate Release: January 29, 2009
Contact: Diane Gramley 1.814.271.9078 or 1.814.437.5355

“Pro-Life” Senator Bob Casey Votes to Fund Overseas Abortions – Again

(Harrisburg) – In September 2007 Senator Bob Casey was apparently confused about the Mexico City Policy. He voted for Senator Sam Brownback’s amendment to a foreign operations appropriations bill preserving the federal government’s Mexico City Policy banning the use of taxpayer dollars for overseas abortions. Twenty minutes later he voted for an amendment offered by Senator Barbara Boxer which would have overturned the Mexico City Policy and give even more money for abortions. Now 16 months later it appears he understands the Policy and where he stands. But, according to the American Family Association of Pennsylvania (AFA of PA), a statewide family values group, his stand further separates him from his father, Robert Casey, Sr.

“On Wednesday the Senate defeated Senator Mel Martinez’ amendment to S-Chip restoring the Mexico City Policy. Only one Democrat voted in support of this bill to save babies and it was not Pennsylvania’s supposed pro-life Senator, but Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska,” noted Diane Gramley, president of the AFA of PA.

It came as no surprise that Senator Specter joined Senate Democrats and voted to allow taxpayer money to go overseas to pay for abortions and lobby foreign countries to reverse their pro-life laws. Some Latin American leaders are reacting strongly to the prospect of their country’s pro-life laws being assaulted because of the lifting of the Mexico City Policy. According to one this is a horrible way for President Obama to begin to relate with the United States’ neighbors to the South.

Congresswoman Martha Lorena de Casco of Honduras expressed “deep regret and sorrow” that “one of President Obama’s first decisions is to revoke the Mexico City policy. I interpret this action as a promotion of abortion and a threat to the national legislation of my country.”

“The surprise came when Senator Casey joined pro-abortion Senator Arlen Specter and voted to spend our tax dollars to kill babies overseas. The pro-life platform he ran on continues to disintegrate and Pennsylvanians see exactly where he stands on the life issue and it is very disappointing,” Gramley concluded.

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