The U.S. House of Representatives today passed the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act of 2015” in a mostly partisan 242-179 vote, that saw three Democrats vote for it and one Republican vote against it. All of Alabama’s Republican representatives voted in favor of the bill.
The House passed the bill as thousands of pro-life supporters flooded the streets of Washington, D.C. for the annual March for Life rally. This year’s rally marks the 42nd anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision, which created a constitutional right to abortion-on-demand. This peaceful demonstration is the largest pro-life event in the world, and has been gathering like-minded supporters since 1973.
The bill would ban taxpayer funding for abortion through ObamaCare. Even though President Obama says abortions are not being funded through ObamaCare, the General Accounting Office, a federal government agency, has issued a report confirming the government is using taxpayer dollars to cover abortion subsidies in 1,036 ObamaCare health plans.
Alabama Republican Party Chairman Bill Armistead released the following statement after the passage of the bill:
“I thank God that the U.S. House of Representatives has taken a strong stand against federal funding of abortions and I thank Alabama’s Republican delegation in Washington for standing on the side of life on behalf of the unborn. It is now incumbent upon Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to bring this bill up for a vote in the Senate, to ensure our tax dollars are not being used to take the lives of the unborn.
“Almost every politician I know ends their speeches with ‘God Bless America’, but how long can we expect His blessing when we are murdering approximately 1.2 million unborn babies each year? If we truly want God’s blessing on our country, we need to repent of our sin of taking the lives of these children yet to be born – future Governors, Senators and Presidents – and embrace life for all, born and unborn.
“It was 27 years ago this week – January 25, 1988 – that the much-loved Republican President, Ronald Reagan, made this statement in his State of the Union Address about life and federal funding of abortion: ‘medical evidence confirms the unborn child is a living human being entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Let us unite as a nation and protect the unborn with legislation that would stop all Federal funding for abortion‘. Almost three decades have passed since President Reagan spoke out against federal funding of abortion. Now that Republicans control both the House and Senate, it is time to codify Reagan’s admonition.”
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