The Republican party has been taking away the funding of the nation’s largest abortion provider piece by piece for some time. Pro-life voters understand that stopping abortion is an incremental process, and a big part of that process is taking the taxpayer money away from the abortion providers. And we are already seeing the effects of the legislation, before it’s even been signed.
Here’s the latest news from Daily Signal:
House Republicans delivered on their promise to defund Big Abortion on Thursday by passing the budget reconciliation bill that has consumed Washington’s attention for the past three months.
In the bill, the House GOP removed Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood, the largest provider of abortions in the country. The effort had been supported by dozens of pro-life legislators from around the country.
The move is a monumental win for pro-lifers because Planned Parenthood receives more than one-third of its overall funding from the U.S. government through grants, contracts, and Medicaid reimbursements. That translates to about $2 million per day, which taxpayers are on the hook for. Furthermore, taxpayer funding for the organization has been on an upward trajectory for about the past dozen years, having increased by 50% since 2013.
[…]Planned Parenthood is also a major provider of hormones for so-called transgender transitions in the country, which means defunding it is also combating the organization’s efforts in that regard as well.
The Federalist had a bit more about this story – how many abortions they perform, how much they profit from that, and weather they perform any other “health care” services:
In the last two years, Planned Parenthood — an ostensibly “nonprofit organization” — earned a stunning $206 million in profit, its own numbers reveal. Much of that is thanks to hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars flowing into its coffers.
The number of abortions Planned Parenthood performs continues to increase, reaching a staggering 402,200 last year. Meanwhile, the organizations’ cancer screening and prevention services have dropped by 54 percent since 2013, including declines of 61 percent for breast exams and 54 percent for pap tests.
The Post Millennial notes that even thought the bill has not been signed into law, it’s already causing Planned Parenthood to quit:
Eight abortion clinics run by Planned Parenthood’s Northern Central States region are slated to shut down across Minnesota as well as Iowa as the Trump administration is targeting funds going to Planned Parenthood.
And finally, related to the issue of the pro-abortion secular left, here was a recent news story about them from Mind Matters. The article is by Wesley J. Smith, and he talks about how often the convictions of the secular left lead to violence.
This is a good review of the actions of the secular left:
Back in 2010, a mentally disturbed anti-human terrorist was shot to death by snipers after he took hostages at the Discovery Channel, demanding that the television service stop “encouraging the birth of any more parasitic human infants,” and instead air “programs encouraging human sterilization and infertility.”
Now, a similar disturbing scenario befell Palm Springs, Calif., where a young man named Guy Edward Bartkus killed himself, injured four people, and caused widespread property destruction when he detonated a huge car bomb in front of an in vitro fertilization clinic. The motive? According to Newsweek’s reporting, Bartkus was a “‘pro-mortalist’ (believing death is preferable to living) or an ‘anti-natalist’ (believing no more human beings should be born).”
It’s not just the crazies who believe these things:
Anti-natalism is a form of anti-humanism, which isn’t just believed by mentally disturbed people capable of violence. Indeed, various forms of anti-humanism have been promoted in professional journals, the media, and popular culture, as a consequence of which, nihilism has been slowly seeping through the culture like a stain.
So often, when you bring up the the issue of being responsible with sex, and being protective of tiny humans, the response is that it’s “violence” to tell women to choose good men, and to get married to those good men before having sex. But if you look a bit more closely, the actual violence is all coming from the pro-abortion side.