Visitor Put up by Professional-life Chief Frank Pavone, Nationwide Director, Priests for Life
When dozens of nationwide and state pro-life leaders gathered at Clergymen for Life headquarters in Titusville, Florida, earlier this month for a three-day technique assembly my group and I set up every year (together with quarterly conferences in Washington), our discussions have been substantive and wide-ranging. It was evident that whereas we’re all searching for to abolish abortion with out exceptions, completely different teams have differing methods relating to how we get there.
On one matter, nevertheless, there was close to common settlement: Abortion profiteers, together with the nation’s primary abortion cartel, Deliberate Parenthood, shouldn’t obtain yet another greenback in taxpayer funding.
We agreed to publish and ship a joint letter to Congress, urging elected representatives to make sure that Individuals aren’t pressured, by their taxes, to assist and abet little one killing.
“As pro-life leaders throughout america,” the letter started, “we write right now to induce you to guard the taxpayer {dollars} of Americans from funding abortion and abortion companies comparable to Deliberate Parenthood.
American jurisprudence has persistently maintained that the legality of abortion doesn’t create an obligation for the state to fund it.
Furthermore, polling has persistently indicated that Individuals are not looking for their tax {dollars} paying for abortion
Whether or not “pro-choice” or pro-life, Individuals have been very clear that they don’t wish to pay for another person’s abortion. And whereas it’s true that federal tax {dollars} can’t be used to immediately subsidize abortion, you will be positive the practically $700 million Deliberate Parenthood obtained from the federal government from 2022-2023 helped saved the killing machines up and operating.
Because the letter famous, payments calling for the defunding of Deliberate Parenthood have been launched in Congress: S. 203 within the Senate, launched by Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, and H.R. 271 within the Home, launched by Minnesota Rep. Michelle Fischbach.
With pro-life majorities in each the Home and Senate and a president prepared with a pen to signal laws defending the hard-earned tax {dollars} of his constituents, now could be the time For Congress to go acceptable measures to perform that. The professional-life motion is able to assist, and you’ll count on to see the fruits from this latest management assembly within the type of elevated and visual lobbying of our lawmakers to guard our taxpayer {dollars} from funding child-killing.
Throughout our three days of conferences and fellowship, we additionally signed a joint letter thanking President Trump, together with members of his administration, Senate Majority Chief John Thune and Home Speaker Mike Johnson, to thank them for concrete actions taken to guard the unborn.
The brand new administration has been on the helm for simply over a month, however its pro-life accomplishments are quite a few and far-reaching. They embody undoing many of the harm Joe Biden did throughout his 4 years in workplace.
Among the many accomplishments of President Trump:
- Eliminated a web site selling abortion that Biden initiated;
- issued government orders confirming that life begins at conception and that there are solely two sexes;
- pardoned 23 pro-life activists unjustly convicted for protesting at abortion companies;
- signed an government order reinstating the “Defending Life in World Well being Help” (Mexico Metropolis Coverage), which prohibits taxpayer funding of abroad abortion suppliers;
- issued an government order imposing the Hyde Modification, which bars using federal funds for elective abortions domestically;
- delivered a video message throughout final month’s March for Life in D.C. and despatched Vice President JD Vance to handle the March crowd from the rally stage;
- introduced plans to restrict enforcement of the Freedom of Entry to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, arguing that it has been used to focus on pro-life activists unfairly;
- issued an announcement endorsing the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Safety Act;
- rejoined the “Geneva Consensus,” a coalition of countries who defend the proper to life and assert that there isn’t a worldwide proper to kill infants in abortions;
- appointed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of Well being and Human Providers and tasked him with learning the dangerous results of the abortion capsule mifepristone,
- and reversed a Biden-era coverage that funded journey for navy personnel searching for abortions, ending taxpayer-funded abortion-related journey.
That was a record-breaking month, and pro-life leaders like myself wished to verify we acknowledged the actions and correctly thanked the person behind them. Some within the motion who prior to now didn’t give President Trump the belief and assist he deserves are admitting that they’re pleasantly stunned now. Others nonetheless appear extra intent on criticizing him on divisive factors than conserving the dialogue on the factors the place the President and the American folks have a powerful consensus – like ending late-term abortion and abortion funding.
However the many pro-life leaders gathered in Florida earlier this month pledged that we might proceed to work along with President Trump and his Administration “to strengthen and advance any and all protections for these youngest and most weak members of the human household.”
The letter closed with the assertion, “America will probably be nice once more to the extent that we defend our first and most simple proper, the proper to life.”
Prolife Chief Frank Pavone is the Nationwide Director of Priests for Life and President of Prolife Vote.
