A.L.L. ACTION
28 JULY 2009
DESPITE SURPRISE VOTE, PENCE AMENDMENT STRUCK DOWN
My Dear Friends,
Last Thursday night, a near impossibility happened: The Pence Amendment to defund Planned Parenthood of Title X tax funding made it to the House floor for a vote!
We heard over and over again that the House Rules Committee was bound to kill it before a vote – that nothing introduced by pro-lifers would break out of the pro-abort-controlled Committee.
We asked for your help, and together, we stormed the halls of Congress with phone calls and visits to our legislators, asking them to convince the Rules Committee to allow the Amendment onto the floor for a vote.
Then, Thursday night, we rejoiced to hear that it made it through the Committee and would get a vote early on Friday.
Deo gratias! No matter the outcome, Planned Parenthood would be exposed! Congressman Pence gave a highly articulate, compelling account of Planned Parenthood for all the world to hear on the floor of the House.
You responded so overwhelmingly to our action alerts Friday morning before the vote! Legislators received thousands of phone calls and e-mails from you.
Despite all this, by a 183–247 vote, Congress struck down the Amendment. They chose to ignore the will of the people and throw tens of millions of dollars to the nation’s largest abortion chain.
Make no mistake: The members of Congress know a majority of Americans are pro-life. They know that Planned Parenthood is the enemy of human rights, the enemy of personhood for all human beings. They know Planned Parenthood is putting our children in danger, wasting our tax dollars, targeting minority populations and arming child predators.
The majority of Americans are pro-life. Period. 247 representatives betrayed the will of the people Friday.
The representatives who voted against the Amendment chose to give up on democracy, chose to hand our tax dollars to a greedy, death-peddling organization and chose political expediency over truth. They will hear from their constituents – from you, from me and from every other patriotic voter who does not want our tax dollars paying for the intrinsic evil of abortion.
Here is a link to the Roll Call vote. http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2009/roll643.xml#Y%23Y Find out how your representative voted and then call and thank them for their brave stand against Planned Parenthood or let them know how you feel about their cowardly support for an organization that puts every man, woman and child in America at risk.
Because of you, the heroic work of U.S. Rep. Mike Pence, and the bipartisan support of the 183 representatives who voted against this organization, Planned Parenthood has been exposed for thousands more to see.
No more can politicians use the excuse that they didn’t know about Planned Parenthood’s record of criminal behavior.
Thank you for joining us in the ongoing battle to protect the human rights and personhood of all human beings – born and preborn. Thank you for helping us work to DEFUND PLANNED PARENTHOOD!
In the LORD Who IS Life,
Judie Brown,
President, American Life League
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American Life League was cofounded in 1979 by Judie Brown. It is the largest grassroots Catholic pro-life organization in the United States and is committed to the protection of all innocent human beings from the moment of creation to natural death. For more information or press inquiries, please contact Katie Walker at 540.659.4942.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Catholic News Agency: U.S. House votes down Pence Amendment intended to defund Planned Parenthood
(24 July 2009)
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=16656
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Katie Walker
Director of Communication
American Life League
1179 Courthouse Road
Stafford, Virginia 22554
540.659.4942
kwalker@all.org
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