Neighborhood Ministries

Liberal legislators have included additional funding for abortions in every spending bill they have initiated and are now pushing a spending bill to include $350 million in taxpayer funds to transport women to States allowing abortion and expand abortion facilities in those States in order to bypass State laws banning abortions. It allocates $10 million to create a position to promote unsupervised at home abortions, and requires Title X recipients to provide abortion drugs, counseling, and referrals in violation of federal law which prohibits federal spending for abortion. This in addition to the Rights to Contraception Act HR 8373 recently passed by the House of Representatives which adds more funding to abortion providers under the disguise of increasing access to contraception. While Republicans support more access to safe and effective contraceptives, the bill would open access to any contraceptives including those that have not been approved by the FDA. It would also funnel taxpayer funds to abortion providers in addition to the current $1.8 billion provided in 2020 in violation of federal law banning funds to abortion providers. While it claims that abortion should receive funding because it is women’s health care, abortion providers provide little if any health care beyond abortions, and the bill would bar federal funds from life-affirming centers that provide a large portion of women’s health care. It would also override State and federal laws protecting freedom of conscience for health care providers and Christian organizations and force them to provide contraceptives and sterilizations, including to minors, and would block States from canceling funding for Planned Parenthood. In essence, it strips voters of any say in the abortion debate and forces them to pay for abortions even if they are totally against it. In addition, it denies funding to centers that actually do provide women’s health care. It is important to elect representatives that will remove the government from abortion funding and return the freedom to choose to the individual. When abortion supporters say “my body, my choice”, taxpayers should say “My money, my choice”.  We should not have to fund things that are immoral, illegal, and opposed by a majority of Americans, including not only those who oppose abortion, it includes many who support abortion who feel they should not have to pay for someone else’s abortion.