A pro-life group is slamming congressional Democrats for working to include abortion-related provisions in the forthcoming coronavirus relief package.
The Susan B. Anthony List said in a press release Wednesday that Democrats in the United States House of Representatives planned on “using the reconciliation process to force taxpayers to fund abortion businesses in the Covid-19 relief bill.”
In an interview with The Christian Post, Mallory Quigley, the SBA List’s vice president of communications, explained that “the way that reconciliation works is, they’ve got a funding bill in the Senate and then a funding bill in the House and then they’ll have to come together and agree.”
Unlike most legislation, which requires 60 votes to pass in the Senate, the reconciliation process, which is “supposed to be specifically for appropriations and for funding,” allows legislation to pass the Senate with a simple majority. Democrats now control the Senate with a narrow 50-50 majority, as Vice President Kamala Harris serves as the tie-breaking vote. The reconciliation process can only be used once per year.
Proposals introduced by Democrats include: “$750 million for global health activities and billions in funding for community health centers without applying the Hyde Amendment” — which forbids the use of taxpayer dollars to pay for abortions — and a “$50 million increase in funding for the Title X program.”
The pro-life group warned that “On the heels of President Biden’s order rolling back President Trump’s Protect Life Rule, Title X would once again become a slush fund for abortion businesses like Planned Parenthood.”
In addition to the aforementioned proposals and a push to grant small business funding to Planned Parenthood affiliates, Democrats plan to include “expansions of taxpayer-funded abortion via Obamacare and a new initiative that would fund abortion-covering COBRA insurance” in the coronavirus relief bill….
The above comes from a Feb. 12 story in the Christian Post.
There’s nothing you can do to stop it, so stop pretending that you’re relevant or have any say in the matter, Susan B. Anthony List. You said a few weeks ago that prolife was winning in America. You touted a record number of prolife women elected to Congress. You see, it’s all for nothing. You just want to make noise to raise money to pay your salaries for your do-nothing, paper pushing jobs. Issue a statement, “slam” the Democrats, give a soundbite, write another press release. What good does it do? Nothing. That’s why Big Pro-Life should be boycotted. Stop giving them money. It doesn’t do any good. No matter what they say or how much people donate, the Democrats are going to push abortion through because they can.
So much of adult political life in America is like middle school. People need to grow up.
Josh, Democrats and the Devil only look like they are succeeding– but it is all only temporary. God sees and hears the tragic cries of His little ones, massacred daily in their mothers’ wombs. God hears their tragic cries, and He knows well, what is going on. And Almighty God is far bigger than all evils– including murder. We have a very great, big, Almighty God, Josh. And He sent a great, big Divine Son– Jesus Christ– to die on a cross, for all these horrible sins. The Satanic Nazi Holocaust did not last. And neither will the sin of murder of unborn children– abortion. Pray your Rosary, offer up sacrifices, do all you can, spiritually, Josh. God already is at work, unseen to man, on all evils in the world. Human beings’ politics are silly, to Almighty God. He has good reasons for all things, and brings about good, from all bad situations– our God is fabulous. Have faith.
Josh, what do you have against the Susan B. Anthony List? And, who do you mean by “Big Pro-Life?” It seems you have some hidden agenda here. Is that correct?
Let’s look at some facts about salaries:
Planned Parenthood’s former-president, Cecile Richards, raked in $1,033,274 running the abortion corporation for the fiscal year of July 1, 2017, to June 30, 2018.
For the fiscal year ending December 2018, Lila Rose, founder and president of Live Action, made $134,624 (13 percent of Ms.Richard’s salary).
(That’s more than a San Jose Police Sergeant, but less than a LAPD Lieutenant. The current average salary in California is about $112,000 per year
and, of course it’s less expensive to live in the Central Valley than the coastal cities.)
And, last year, Marjorie Dannenfelser, the president of the Susan B. Anthony List, made $302,325 (paid for 45 hours of work, but I’m pretty certain she worked more than that). For the head of an organization, living in the expensive DC area, that’s not unreasonable.
And, why do you think a record number of pro-life women elected to Congress is irrelevant?
She’s the head of an organization that fails to accomplish anything meaningful. These prolife bureaucrats are like institutional VPs of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Access. They are a drain on the economy and on a business, not a contributor of growth. I won’t give to national prolife organizations because I won’t subsidize hefty salaries of people who don’t do any meaningful work.
Anonymous, The election of a record number of pro-life Representatives to Congress is meaningful.
Saving babies and their mothers from the violence of abortion is meaningful.
And, more could be said, but, I think you get the point.
With a Democrat majority, there surely was not a record of prolife representatives elected to Congress in the fall. Susan B. Anthony List said a record number of prolife “women” elected to Congress. You see, even you fell for their deceptive verbiage. They want to tout accomplishments but there are none. There were prolife majorities when Republicans controlled the House and the Senate, but no meaningful prolife legislation was passed. These Big Prolife Nonprofits will keep raising money to pay for their self-sufficiency and accomplish nothing. Republicans want the prolife vote but they don’t deliver prolife legislation. Susan B. Anthony List wants prolife donations but don’t deliver successes.
Saving babies is meaningful, but Susan B. Anthony List isn’t doing that. They are just raising money from gullible people, preying on their virtue and sympathies, and only paying themselves.
Don’t donate to Big Prolife anymore. Find a local pregnant woman who needs your help and help her. Susan B. Anthony List doesn’t care about that woman and won’t help that woman like you can. Susan B. Anthony List only cares about your money to pay their fat cat executive board.
Josh, it’s a fact that a record number of pro-life women were elected to Congress. Pro-life Representatives are still in the minority, but it’s a growing minority and there will never be enough to protect the preborn babies and their mothers unless we keep electing more.
You still refuse to say who you’re calling “Big Prolife” (other than the SBA List). Why?
And, why don’t you address the salary issue with facts rather than disrespectfully calling these pro-life women “fat cats?”
And, all of these pro-life leaders support local pro-life efforts.
Yet, you judge their hearts and motives (they “don’t care,” they care “only about your money”). How do you know that?! I think that is known to God alone. While you may question their strategies, do you really think you’re in a position to judge their hearts?
I know that Lila Rose (of LiveAction, to name just one example) has saved many lives.
How many have you saved?
God rewards effort not results.
Josh and Anonymous– don’t you realize, your money donations are worthless? Pro-Life work does not need your money. Pro-Life is freely-given, to save little babies from murder– and convert their mommies to Pro-Life. You join too, go give your volunteering. Save lives– out of love. The saints always have warned, all through history– never, never observe and complain about temporary “results.” The story is not over, yet. Leave “results” to Almighty God. Give your life, with total faith, if called to holy martyrdom– like Christ, all His apostles, St. Paul, and all the saints — it is all for the glory of God. And leave it all in God’s great divine hands. This whole world is His, not ours.
Thank you Deacon Craig.
Prayers please: Chris Stefanick’s cousin on ventilator with Covid for a month. Heal him, Lord. Blessed Mother pray for him and all who have Covid 19.
There are now a total of 19 cities in the state of Texas, that have declared their cities, “Pro-Life Sanctuary Cities,” where all abortions are prohibited. And more cities are considering doing likewise. Fantastic. Our Catholic religion is the largest one in Texas, with Southern Baptists at “Number Two.” Great combo.
How I wish my punctuation marks of (!) would not get changed to (.) in all of my posts! When I write something, for example, like “Fantastic!” (in my above post)– it just sounds wrong, to change my punctuation of (!) to a flat (.) Makes no sense!