Click here to vote on the House GOP YouCut website (third one down).
(Life News) — Republicans in Congress are looking to make more budget cuts and to give pro-life advocates another chance to make gains after the passage of bills that de-fund Planned Parenthood and stop direct taxpayer funding of abortions.
House Republicans, last year,launched their popular YouCut web site, which allows the public to submit ideas for programs they believe should be eliminated. Each week three of these ideas are posted online and individuals vote for the one that they most want the House of Representatives to consider. Whichever program gets the most votes will be sponsored by the YouCut program, and the public will be able to track it’s progress on the website as it moves through the legislative process.
This week, pro-life House Majority Leader Eric Cantor is launching the second phase of the YouCut program, which will now be organized by the freshman republican lawmakers pro-life voters put in office last November. The options for cuts include revoking the funding President Barack Obama put in place for the UNFPA, an agency that promotes abortion and works hand-in-hand with family planning officials in China enforcing the one-child, forced-abortion policy.
Terminating contributions from the United States to the United Nations Population Fund has been included as one of the first three YouCut options. Therefore, legislation defunding UNFPA could be considered by the House of Representative soon, but only if this option gets the most votes on the YouCut website.