Virginia Society for Human Life Report on Health Care

 

Virginia Society for Human Life

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A Richmond Times-Dispatch story published on July 9, 2008, announced “a well-financed” national campaign by Health Care for America Now begun yesterday in 50 cities across the country including Richmond.  According to the story, the Virginia agent is Virginia Organizing Project. 

 

This is seen as a shot-across-the-bow for fully federally funded abortion-on-demand under the auspices of Health Care for America Now.  This is because of   the proposal’s funding by America’s top abortion chain, Planned Parenthood Federation of America.  Planned Parenthood kills thousands of unborn babies in their clinics every year.

 

289,750 abortions were performed at clinics associated with Planned Parenthood of America (PPFA) in 2006, according to the PPFA 2006-07 Annual Report.

 

Guttmacher reports that abortions in the U.S. have steadily decreased since 1990, dropping by 25%.  While dropping in the U.S. as a whole, abortion performed at PPFA clinics during the same time frame (1990-2006) have increased by 224%.

 

This news story identifies Planned Parenthood Federation of America as one of the national organizations on the steering committee of Health Care for America Now who have given at least $500,000 each to fund the project.

 

The wholesale killing of unborn babies as practiced by Planned Parenthood Federation of America is a totally inappropriate and totally incompatible component of health care for the sick and suffering, and especially for the poor mother who needs care and help, not the killing of her unborn child.

Planned Parenthood has consistently opposed every effort to provide women facing difficult pregnancies with vital information about help that is available to them and the risk posed by abortion.  So committed are they to the abortion agenda that they have consistently fought even reasonable "women's right to know" laws and "parental involvement" laws in all fifty states.
 

The gauntlet has been thrown.  The bandwagon is rolling  Now is the time for every citizen to speak up to demand that abortion services and their providers be excluded from health care reform plans as is unfortunately evident in the presence of Planned Parenthood Federation of America in the Health Care for America Now apparatus.

Olivia Gans, President, Virginia Society for Human Life

July 9, 2008

 

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction,
is the first and only legitimate object of good government ..
From a letter by Thomas Jefferson to the
Citizens of Washington County, Maryland
31 March 1809

 

Date Published: 2008-07-16 01:00:00

Section: Top Headline,