Oregon Voters Not Represented on Abortion Funding – Legislators Accountable
Tuesday, 02 June 2009 18:31
Clackamas, OR – LIFE SUPPORT recommends cutting abortion funding, not babies.
While potential budget cuts are being debated in the Oregon legislature, one of the most controversial uses of taxpayer dollars is still being fully funded – abortion. Each biennium over three million dollars is used to pay for the murder of over 7,000 babies under the Oregon Health Plan. (http://www.lifesupportoregon.org). This is unconscionable and deeply offensive to a broad section of Oregon voters.
Mary Starrett, the 2006 Constitution Party gubernatorial candidate, received over 50,000 votes as the only pro-life candidate in the race.Regarding public funding of abortions, Starrett says:
"I ask my fellow Oregonians: 'How do you pay for abortions; cash, check or auto-pay through your state taxes each year?' It's an under-reported fact that we are being forced to pay for the abortions of thousands of unborn Oregonians each and every year. The gruesome procedure that stops the beating of a human heart is paid for by unsuspecting people of the state of Oregon who have no idea their hard earned taxes equate to blood money."
In 2008, U.S. Senate candidate David Brownlow received over 90,000 votes while running on an staunchly pro-life platform. He attributes public abortion funding as a cause for the withdrawal of divine blessing upon the economy, and says:
"The blood of the tens of thousands who died such barbaric deaths is crying out for justice. We should not assume a lack of connection between state-funded abortions and the free fall of our economy."
James E. Leuenberger, who received over 160,000 votes for Attorney General in 2008, also protests abortion funding, saying:
"By taking my property and using it to pay for abortions, my state government makes me complicit in the murder of innocent children. I have asked legislators to stop taking my property and using it to pay for the murders of innocent children. So far, they have ignored my plea. I hope the consciences of our legislators will be touched if enough of us tell them that it is wrong to make all Oregon taxpayers contribute to the deaths of children in Oregon."
LIFE SUPPORT Commends Pro-Life Legislators
Written by Keith Humphrey
Friday, 15 May 2009 21:36
At the battle over the currently proposed budget comes to a head, pro-life legislators have recently signed their names to a petition to strike the public funding of abortion. Delivered to the Co-Chairs of the Ways & Means Health & Human Services Subcommittee, they state:
"Since elective abortions are viewed by the undersigned and by many Oregon taxpayers as an egregious practice and a violation of the fundamental right to life itself, we hereby request public funding for elective abortions be removed from the proposed 2009-11 Oregon State Budget."
Life Support congratulates them on their principled position, and encourages them to follow through by voting against the proposed budget which funds abortion.
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Last Updated on Friday, 15 May 2009 23:20
Lobbying the Legislature 2009
Written by Keith Humphrey
This legislative session, Life Support Field Director Bob Ekstrom has often been visiting the State Capitol in Salem, which he calls "our house." With a disarming smile, he relentlessly pesters the legislators to vote against the proposed budget, on account of the funding for abortion. They listen patiently, giving an occasional diplomatic answer, while he speaks with them in their offices. Several of us have been joining him from time to time, as well as handing out letters of protest, holding banners, or speech-making on the front steps. The lawmakers are supposed to be there to represent us, but we go there to represent the babies, and to witness to the truth.
