Conservatives are speaking out today against the Congressional budget and multiple provisions and earmarks in it that fund a wide variety of objectionable things.
But one funding item that will get pro-life Americans up in arms is a line item that spends $1.8 million funding a late-term abortion clinic that kills viable babies.
As Fox News reports, “Rhode Island Democrat Sens. Jack Reed, D-R.I., and Sheldon Whitehouse requested $1.8 million for the Women and Infants Hospital in Rhode Island. The clinic performs elective abortions up to 22 weeks, both surgical and chemical, according to its website.”
With premature babies now surviving as early as 21 weeks, that means the hospital is killing 21 and 22-week-old babies who can survive on their own outside the womb. And state law allows abortions much further than that.
In 2019, Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo has signed a bill that legalized abortions up to birth in the northeastern state.
The state legislature to pass the radical bill that would allow late-term abortions on viable unborn babies, including partial-birth and dismemberment abortions. Recent amendments appear to provide some limits on late-term abortions but still allow them for the “health” of the mother, a term so broadly defined that basically any situation could qualify.
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Barth Bracy, executive director of the Rhode Island Right to Life Committee, described the legislation as a “New York-style abortion expansion bill.”
Susan B. Anthony List president Marjorie Dannenfelser told LifeNews the pro-life group conducted polling and generated hundreds of constituent phone calls in opposition to the bill and said she was very disappointed by the governor signing the bill.
“It is extremely disappointing to see Rhode Island lawmakers cave to pressure from the abortion lobby to pass this radical bill,” she said.
“More than three in four Ocean State voters – Democrats, Independents, women, and a strong majority of self-described Pro-Abortion voters – agree expanding late-term abortions is too extreme. Rhode Islanders should not be fooled by the smokescreen of ‘compromise’: this law expands abortion on demand through the moment of birth. We thank all the legislators, especially the many courageous Democrats who stood firm in their opposition and fought for the will of their constituents,” she added.
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