Pence's H.R. 217 Funds Abortion

A TEACHABLE MOMENT

Indiana's U.S. Rep. Mike Pence's 2011 H.R. 217 bill explicitly allows funding of ALL ABORTIONS DONE FOR ANY REASON at hospitals, and also explicitly allows funding of the killing of some children to defund the killing of others. H.R. 217:

Title X, Section 1009U.S. Rep. Mike Pence
   (b) does not apply with respect to an abortion where --
      (1) the pregnancy is the result of an act of rape, or...
      (2) ...life-threatening physical condition...
   (c) does not apply with respect to a hospital...

[Note: See ARTL exposing the traitorous Exceptions for Rape and Exceptions for Life that started the abortion holocaust to begin with and that effectively prohibit any ultimate victory.]

Predictable Outcomes: If the immoral Pence bill H.R. 217 tragically becomes law:

  • claimed rapes in the U.S. will increase a thousand-fold
  • claimed life-threatening pregnancies will skyrocket as certified by abortionists and pro-abortion physicians
  • many unintended consequences will occur, not unlike with Pence's mentor G. W. Bush whose alleged opposition to tax-funded abortion led to an explosion of abortion industry funding of more than one billion dollars under the Bush administration (see below)
  • respectable hospitals, ever in need of funds, will receive a windfall of revenue from a new-found abortion market and these institutions will become increasingly invested in the maturing and long-term stability of the billion-dollar abortion industry.

Rep. Pence should consider that no Christian should ever submit to the criminal who says shoot this child and we'll spare those children. And nor should any Christian defend his H.R. 217 abortion funding bill.

Not only is Rep. Pence unwilling to take on hospitals that kill children, and not only is he unwilling to fight for those children he finds indefensible (some of whose fathers, for example, are rapists), but he sinks much further than that by explicitly allowing for Planned Parenthood abortion clinics to take tax dollars to dismember the children he finds unlovable or unworthy of a fight to protect. Pragmatism is what works, and "pro-life" politicians have failed for 30 years. Making "exceptions" declares the unborn child a non-person. If Pence and his fellow "pro-life" politicians cannot perceive the political climate in 2011 as the time to stand against the actual funding with tax dollars of the killing of every child, they not only fail as statesmen but they also lack political savvy.

Historical Note: Like Rep. Pence, former president George W. Bush claimed to be against tax funding of abortion yet the Bush administration increased funding to Planned Parenthood by hundreds of millions of tax dollars more than Clinton had been able to give them, and this was true even though money is fungible and even though in a typical year 98% of Planned Parenthood's pregnancy services consist of abortion. Similarly, Mike Pence is not unlike George W. Bush who gets credit for opposing embryonic research when in reality the president never fought to end the fatal experiments and Bush even became the first president to fund embryonic stem cell research. Pence praised George W. Bush when introducing him at a 2010 Indianapolis pregnancy center fundraiser while overlooking the president's tragic abortion legacy (see alternative event flyer), covering for the president who gave Planned Parenthood over a billion dollars. Mike Pence, like G. W. Bush, is in a long line of ambitious politicians and fundraisers who campaign against tax-funded abortion despite the fact that they actually fund abortion.

This is a teachable moment. Call Rep. Pence and ask him to find the simple dignity and courage to stop funding the intentional killing of some innocent children. Similar bill H.R. 358 is immoral for the same reasons and ARTL urges everyone to carefully consider it's brief and powerful AmericanRTL.org/exceptions and AmericanRTL.org/regulations resources.

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