Category: Abortion Funding

47 Democratic senators, including New Hampshire Senator Maggie Hassan, voted to allow family planning funds to go to abortion clinics. “Americans don’t want their taxpayer dollars used to subsidize abortion clinics,” said Carol Tobias, president of NRLC. Read the NRLC Press Release.

“The Hyde Amendment is widely recognized as having a significant impact on the number of abortions in the United States and has saved an estimated 2.4 million American lives,” stated Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life. Read the whole story.

Washington, D.C. — U.S. Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), James Lankford (R-OK), and 19 colleagues introduced a Congressional Review Act (CRA) joint resolution of disapproval to overturn a Biden Administration regulation that creates a loophole allowing elective abortion coverage in taxpayer-funded Affordable Care Act (ACA) health exchange plans. S.J.Res.43 would nullify the U.S. Department …

By Olivia Gans Turner, President, Virginia Society for Human Life As most of America knows, some states recently have provided greater protections to unborn children which have resulted in appeals to the Supreme Court. Most of the attention this past year has been on the Mississippi law that would prevent abortions after 15 weeks’ gestation …

By Lois Anderson, Executive Director, Oregon Right to Life In the last hours of the 2022 short session, the Oregon Legislature passed a $15 million reproductive health equity fund to increase abortion traffic to Oregon. Instead of addressing the many crises we face every day in our state, these dollars will be directly providing women …

Total number of abortions bankrolled by taxpayers levels off in 2020 ST. PAUL — Planned Parenthood performed 23 percent more tax-funded abortions in Minnesota in 2020, according to a report just released by the Minnesota Department of Human Services. Overall, taxpayers reimbursed abortion practitioners just over $1 million for 4,410 abortions during the 2020 pandemic …

By Right to Life UK A GP in Wexford, Ireland has said it is an “absolute scandal” that GPs are paid almost double for administering an abortion compared to management of pregnancy. Dr. Grainne Pinaqui of The Faythe Medical Practice, told Independent.ie that GPs are only paid €250 for managing pregnancies compared to €450 for …

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler (R-Mo.), Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), and Congressman Chris Smith (R-N.J.) led 142 Congressional members in requesting the Government Accountability Office (GAO) produce a report detailing the federal funding for Federally Qualified Health Centers, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, International Planned Parenthood Federation, MSI Reproductive Choices, and four domestic abortion …

Taxpayers paid a record-high 4,463 abortions at a cost of $1.1 million By Paul Stark, Communications Director , MCCL MINNEAPOLIS — Twenty-six years ago today, the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled that the state Constitution requires abortion-on-demand and public funding of abortion. The Doe v. Gomez decision would continue to impose this policy even if the U.S. …

By Maria V. Gallagher, Legislative Director, Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation The Pennsylvania state Constitution does not contain a so-called right to abortion—let alone a right for an abortion paid for by Pennsylvania taxpayers. That is the holding of a friend-of-the-court brief filed by the Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation, an affiliate of National Right to Life, and the …

By Nevada Right to Life President Biden’s multi-trillion dollar so called “Build Back Better” plan being considered by the Congress will force the American Taxpayer to fund abortion not only in the United States, but in other nations. Not only would it exclude the 45 year old Hyde Amendment which has prohibited federal taxpayer funding …