by Bill Fancher
Pro-lifers can expect to see a series of amendments proposed to several appropriations bills over the next few months.
While some of the amendments dealing with condom distribution in elementary school and increased funding for abstinence education are expected to pass, there are some proposals in doubt.
Michael Schwartz, government affairs director for Concerned Women for America will be following the legislation. “One is an amendment that David Vitter of Louisiana [Republican Representative] will offer to prohibit family planning grants from going to private organizations that commit abortion.”
Schwartz says right now that is the case. “We're subsidizing the abortion industry to the tune of about $50-60 million a year under our family planning program,” he notes. “The family planning program is supposed to be abortion-free. Vitter wants to enforce that.” According to Schwartz, that may or may not succeed.
Abortion Demonstrations to Continue
On a different front, the pro-life activist group Operation Rescue says it will continue to travel across the nation and to several foreign countries to demonstrate for the unborn. Randy Thomas, a Rescue spokesman, recently explained why the organization is so vocal in its opposition to abortion.
“We're called by the Lord, we are His ambassadors, and we are declaring His message,” he says. “Now what this city [Washington, D.C.] and what this nation does with it is their business, but I know they will be without an excuse.”
Thomas says we are all “watchmen on the wall” as depicted in the Bible. He believes our spiritual duty is to sound the alarm when things are wrong and let others know what is going on. He says they will answer to God for what they do with that information.
(This article courtesy of Agape Press.)