Planned Parenthood Kills Millions of Babies in Abortions, It Should be Defunded
Fighting abortion involves going to the places where babies are being aborted and their mothers are being exploited.
By being there on the front line of this battlefield, the people of God provide the final appeal to the consciences of these mothers, most of whom are not there because of freedom of choice, but because they feel they have no freedom and no choice. By being there, we offer hope to replace the despair that led them to the killing center in the first place. We seek to give them strength to welcome the life growing in their wombs.
Our presence at abortion mills, peaceful and legal, is a combination both of prayer and protest. We appeal to God, and we take a strong stand against evil.
As we have for more than 10 years, on Jan. 23 in Washington, D.C., Priests for Life will gather with other pro-life leaders and activists outside the flagship killing center of the nation’s number one abortion seller, Planned Parenthood.
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We go to Planned Parenthood because it is the largest abortion business in the nation, but our presence is meant to call attention to the entire abortion industry, including the abortion mills that operate independently and the businesses that make abortion drugs available. Those businesses now include some of the country’s biggest pharmacy chains.
We will pray and we will protest, and this year, we will appeal to our lawmakers to defund the abortion industry.
Individual states and the federal government have the power to protect more of our taxpayer dollars from going to abortion and this term, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case from South Carolina centered on whether that state has the right to withhold Medicaid funding from Planned Parenthood. A ruling in that case, expected in late June, could have major ramifications.
The pro-abortion movement, through the constitutional amendments passed in various states this past November, is trying to increase and mandate abortion funding. But most Americans oppose taxpayer funding of abortion. So it came as good news when Elon Musk suggested one of the ways to make government more efficient through the newly created Department of Government Efficiency would be to reduce the large amount of government funding Planned Parenthood receives.
In a Nov. 20 opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal, Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy (who has since left the federal effort) said they will “help end federal overspending by taking aim at the $500 billion plus in annual federal expenditures that are unauthorized by Congress or being used in ways that Congress never intended … including $300 million to progressive groups like Planned Parenthood.”
Newly re-elected House Speaker Mike Johnson said last month that he would like to see the abortion seller’s federal funding on the chopping block, and said he would work to ensure he has the votes to make it happen in the House.
Although it has not yet been introduced, I expect the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act to be filed once again in the House and with a pro-life majority, it should pass. The Senate is always more of a hurdle.
Yet with a Republican trifecta in the federal legislative branch, a pro-life majority in the Supreme Court and the Musk team ready to make meaningful cuts, this year provides more reason for hope-fueled efforts than ever to defund the abortion cartel. And that’s exactly what we will pray for on January 23rd.
We will be outside Planned Parenthood at 1225 Fourth St. NE from 9 to 11 a.m. that day. Please join us.
LifeNews.com Note: Frank Pavone is national director of Priests for Life and the national pastoral director of Rachel’s Vineyard Ministries and the Silent No More Awareness Campaign.