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OIG Report Reveals Additional Obamacare Funding of Abortion

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 27, 2016		 CONTACT: Ryan Hughes
Shirley & Banister Public Affairs
703-739-5920/800-536-5920
rhughes@sbpublicaffairs.com

AmeriCorps’ Abortion Escorts Broke Federal Rules
Washington, D.C – This week’s OIG report reveals two disturbing and illegal activities related to abortion. When Obamacare passed in 2010 pro-life groups raised the alarm about numerous ways the law funded abortions, including the possibility that Community Health Care Centers would provide abortions.  At the time President Obama promised that abortion would not be covered in the law and to that point signed an Executive Order which Pro-life groups (and pro-abortion groups like Planned Parenthood) argued was not binding and therefore meaningless. Also at the time the National Association of Community Health Centers stated that the Community Health Centers did not provide abortions and had no plans to do so.

To the contrary the OIG watchdog report released this week reveals that 1) CHCs have been performing abortions and 2) paid volunteers working with AmeriCorps, a taxpayer funded service organization, illegally escorted pregnant women to receive abortions.

Jeanne Mancini, President of March for Life Education and Defense Fund responded, “In 2010 the pro-life movement fought Obamacare because it was the biggest expansion of abortion since Roe vs Wade.  The recent OIG report reveals yet two other disturbing examples where the healthcare law funds abortion. Congress must use its oversight role to address the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) grants until it is proven that these cases of involvement in abortion are limited to what is documented in the report. We also call upon Congress to initiate an investigation into all grantees and sub-grantees of AmeriCorps programs to ensure no other violations exist.”

The March for Life in Washington, D.C., began as a small demonstration on January 22, 1974, the first anniversary of the now-infamous Supreme Court decisions in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton and rapidly grew to be the largest pro-life event in the world.  The peaceful demonstration that has followed on this somber anniversary every year since is a witness to the truth concerning the greatest human rights violation of our time, abortion.

Tom McClusky, Vice President of March for Life Action is available for commentary. For more information, please contact Ryan Hughes at RHughes@SBPublicAffairs.com or (703) 739-5920.

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Weakening Pro-Life GOP Platform would Set Back Years of Hard Work in the Pro-Life Movement

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 21, 2016		 CONTACT: Ryan Hughes
Shirley & Banister Public Affairs
703-739-5920/800-536-5920
rhughes@sbpublicaffairs.com
 

Donald Trump “Absolutely” Wants to Change GOP Platform to Promote Abortion in Cases of Rape
Washington, D.C. – In an interview with the Today show, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said he “absolutely” wants to change the Republican party’s current pro-life platform to promote abortions in cases of rape or incest.

The GOP platform’s position on “The Sanctity and Dignity of Human Life” reads, “Faithful to the ‘self-evident’ truths enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, we assert the sanctity of human life and affirm that the unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed.”

“Thanks to the good work of people like Phyllis Schlafly, the Republican Platform has always been solidly pro-life even when Republican candidates have not been,” said Tom McClusky, March for Life Action, who has worked behind the scenes on the pro-life platform at conventions. “The Platform sets the standard that all candidates need to work from, and the suggestion that the platform should weaken its position on the pro-life issue would set back years of hard work in the pro-life movement.”

The March for Life in Washington, D.C., began as a small demonstration on January 22, 1974, the first anniversary of the now-infamous Supreme Court decisions in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton and rapidly grew to be the largest pro-life event in the world.  The peaceful demonstration that has followed on this somber anniversary every year since is a witness to the truth concerning the greatest human rights violation of our time, abortion.

Jeanne Mancini, President of the March for Life Education & Defense Fund is available for commentary. For more information, please contact Ryan Hughes at RHughes@SBPublicAffairs.com or (703) 739-5920.

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March for Life President Jeanne Mancini in the Washington Examiner

 

March for Life President Jeanne Mancini recently penned an op-ed for the Washington Examiner, entitled “Donald Trump’s — and Hillary Clinton’s — war on women.”

On the other side, we have Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton campaigning on access to unrestricted abortion as a fundamental, beneficial right for women. Clinton advocates for abortion until the day of birth, a view that is out of touch with the American people. A recent Marist poll shows that 81 percent of Americans are against late-term abortion. The former secretary of state also opposes commonsense health and safety regulations that would protect women at abortion facilities. Recently, Mrs. Clinton even went so far as to admit that the developing baby is an “unborn person” but one “without constitutional rights.”

>>>> Click HERE to read the full op-ed.

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March for Life Assistant Director Bethany Peck in Townhall.com

 

Townhall.com recently published an op-ed by March for Life Assistant Director Bethany Peck entitled “Categorizing Women Who Seek Abortions as Criminals is not Pro-Woman.”

Each year on a bitter cold and somber day in our Nation’s Capital, the March for Life leads throngs of passionate pro-life Americans up Capitol Hill and to the Supreme Court. The site is where the March for Life began – in 1973, the Court issued its Roe v Wade and Doe v Bolton decisions, legalizing abortion on demand in the United States. We have been marching and working towards a reversal and a culture of life ever since.

When the mostly millennial crowd makes it to the Supreme Court at the conclusion of the March for Life – this past year as a historic blizzard was beginning – they come to witness the moving and heart-rending stories of women who regret their abortions. These women bravely share about the pain, heartbreak, emotional, mental, and even physical suffering from one or more abortions. They are a small sample of the millions of women who suffer in silence from the pain of abortion.

>>>> Click HERE to read the full op-ed.