If the Hyde Amendment guarantees in Health Care are a Sham
And I hope Joe Biden will be too.
This is the email going around the world now from the Family Research Council.
Congress Goes Buck Hunting
Babies aren't the only thing vanishing at Planned Parenthood clinics--so are taxpayer dollars! According to the latest Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports, the abortion giant can't puts its fingers on a cool $1.3 billion in federal funds. Of the $2.02 billion that the International Planned Parenthood Federation raked in between 2002-2009, only $657.1 million is accounted for. Twenty-six House members and five senators have filed an information request demanding to know where the missing money is.
With the government swimming in debt, you'd think that the administration would take keen interest in locating its lost billion. On the contrary, the White House's only response has been to give Planned Parenthood some control over its new grant program. Translation: "You've lost a billion dollars? Well, by all means, let's put you in charge of more!" Late last Friday (when the press is least likely to notice), the Department of Health and Human Services announced the creation of a Pregnancy Assistance Fund, a new grant program that's designed to help moms-to-be, particularly teenagers, with education, health care, child care, and housing costs. In an email from the President's Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, the White House claimed this program would fulfill the President's promise of finding "common ground on abortion." How can he find common ground on abortion if the Fund never mentions it?
Or does it? According to our sources inside HHS, Planned Parenthood actually helped draft the rules that decide who is and isn't eligible for grant money. In other words, look for the pro-abortion crowd to be at the front of the line, ready to cash in on even more taxpayer dollars.
As you know, FRC has been a leading voice for life-affirming pregnancy services (see our booklet, A Passion to Serve), but we strongly oppose the idea that these grant recipients should include any group that financially profits from abortions. See, there's a reason that Planned Parenthood performed 307,310 abortions in 2007 and only 4,912 adoption referrals that same year. (Hint: One of those services yielded more than $168 million in revenuey"and it wasn't the adoptions!) Asking Planned Parenthood to oversee where our money goes is a huge conflict of interesty"not to mention an irresponsible choice, given the group's massive failure to manage their own grants!
The only way to help these mothers and their babies is by funneling the $25 million to organizations that won't make a profit from their work, namely pregnancy resources centers. And if President Obama truly cared about these women, HHS would have issued real regulations--this time enforcing his Executive Order to strip abortion from the health care bill.
NASA Defies Gravity of Muslim Outreach
Charles Bolden, President Obama's choice for NASA Administrator, is a former astronaut. On the one-year anniversary of Mr. Obama's Cairo speech, Bolden decided to tell the Arabic language Al Jazeera network that the U.S. can no longer even achieve low earth orbit without the help of other nations. Speaking in Cairo, Bolden said, "[President Obama] charged me with three things: One was he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math, he wanted to expand our international relationships, and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world..." To do what? To boast about our canceled space programs? To tell them that the America that once sent men to the Moon can no longer send anyone anywhere without help? According to President Obama, we would reach out to the Muslim world "to help them feel good..."
Generations of young Americans were inspired by President Kennedy's call to go to the Moon. His bold challenge fired the imaginations of the young, even as it ignited our mighty space rockets. President Kennedy led this nation to the Moon. He said it poetically: "America has thrown its hat over the wall of space and we have no choice but to go after it." President Obama hasn't thrown America's hat anywhere. He's sat on it.
America Answers the Call... 2Fall
Our sincere thanks to everyone who participated in this year's Call2Fall! Although there's no way to determine exactly how many people joined us in this special time of prayer, early estimates put the number of participants at more than a half-million! We're pleased to report that friends from Micronesia to Argentina--and churches from all 50 U.S. states--heeded the call to repentance. FRC was especially humbled to see a significant number of these participants were military men and women, who were praying for America while serving her overseas! Tony had the opportunity to preach on Freedom Sunday at Houston's Healing Place with his friend Pastor Dino Rizzo. Together, they recognized that the journey back to God, to His forgiveness and healing, begins on our knees.
** Feeling patriotic? Check out Ken Blackwell and Ken Klukowski's column for the Fourth, "Opposing Obama's Blueprint by Celebrating American Exceptionalism." For more from Ken Blackwell, don't miss his op-ed on how National Public Radio is rewriting the rules on the abortion debate, "NPR: Choosing Sides...with Our Money." **
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