However, recently released statistics show the grave inaccuracy of this statement.
- The New York City Health Department reported that abortion ends 41% of pregnancies in New York City.
- And just yesterday, the Guttmacher Institute, a research arm of the abortion lobby, announced that the national abortion rate rose for the first time since 1990. Nationally, 19.6% of all pregnancies end in abortion.
And sadly, you and I were complicit in many of those abortions. In the past fiscal year, Planned Parenthood received a whopping $363 million in government grants and contracts—our tax dollars—and killed 324,008 unborn children.We’ve already reached a milestone in ourStop Abortion Funding campaign: Pro-life stalwart Rep. Mike Pence just introduced his “Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act” with 123 bi-partisan co-sponsors. This bill would stem the rampant flow of our tax dollars to Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers, which have received more than a billion dollars in taxpayer funds over the past eight years alone.
Laws save lives. We must ensure Rep. Pence’s bill and other upcoming pro-life bills, like Rep. Chris Smith’s “No Taxpayer Funding of Abortion Act,” are passed by this pro-life Congress.
Data shows that the Hyde Amendment, which prevents taxpayer funding of abortion in the Health & Human Services Appropriations bill, saves over 130,000 lives a year—but it is not a permanent law.
Rep. Chris Smith’s “No Taxpayer Funding of Abortion Act,” would make the Hyde Amendment and other pro-life amendments (riders) permanent. These lifesaving additions would no longer have to be fought for year after year.
Abortion is not rare—nor is it safe. If you didn’t get a chance to tune into the pro-life webcast with Abby Johnson, a former Planned Parenthood clinic director, I hope you’ve been able to read some of the news coverage.
Abby bravely shared her story—the one Planned Parenthood lawyers have been trying to silence—with over 20,000 listeners on Monday night.
She explained how Planned Parenthood set a goal to increase the number of abortions because “non-profit is a tax status, not a business status.” Planned Parenthood knows abortion is where the money is.
Abby even saw the abortion pill being distributed without doctor involvement, saying “We had no physician on-staff to help them. If something went wrong, the women would either have to go to the emergency room, or drive two hours away to Houston. If they were septic or hemorrhaging, two hours could be too late.”
We need pro-life legislation now more than ever. We need laws that save the lives of unborn children and protect women from the violence of abortion.
Our electoral victories will be meaningless if we do not turn them into legislative victories in this new Congress.
The SBA List will never stop fighting until every child, woman and taxpayer across our country is protected from the tragedy of abortion.
Marjorie Dannenfelser
President, Susan B. Anthony List
www.sba-list.org
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