(LifeNews) — Senate Democrats are attempting to gut four pro-life policies in the minibus bill the Senate will consider next week, and Concerned Women for America is urging pro-life advocates to contact senators to urge support for them.
As LifeNews reported, the Senate is expected to vote soon on four key abortion issues of interest to pro-life advocates and they affect whether taxpayer dollars will pay for abortions and go to pro-abortion groups. […]
“This minibus includes Senator Frank Lautenberg’s (D-New Jersey) amendment to permanently prohibit future presidents from implementing the Mexico City Policy. The Mexico City Policy, first implemented by President Reagan, disallows tax-dollars to be used to subsidize organizations that promote or perform abortions abroad,” the pro-life women’s group said. “It also increases International Family Planning funds $125 million over last year’s and includes $40 million requested by President Obama for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), which is complicit in China’s barbaric program of forced and coercive abortion and sterilization.”
The amendments include:
- An amendment to strike the Lautenberg language that prevents future administrations from reinstating the Mexico City Policy.
- An amendment to prevent taxpayer funding of abortions in the District of Columbia.
- An amendment to ensure that federal employee health plans do not include elective abortion coverage.
- An amendment to defund UNFPA.
- An amendment to decrease funding for International Family Planning.