Sierra Mountain Times

Taxpaying Abortions

The best pro-life president I ever knew was President Ronald Regan, but when he was governor of California he did something terrible. He sighed the most liberal abortion law. To his credit and as president, he often commented that signing that abortion bill and making it law in California was the greatest regret of his life. In 1983, as president, his ambassador, Alan Keyes, fashioned what became known as the Mexico City Policy. This meant that our tax dollars would not be sent out of this country to perform abortions in foreign countries. This had been done. President Regan, through Ambassador Keyes, stopped it. Now, the Mexico City Policy continued as a law until president Bill Clinton took office. For eight years the Mexico City Policy was rescinded. When George W. Bush took over as president he reinstated the Mexico City Policy. There is an executive order waiting on the desk of President-elect Obama; it is waiting to be signed to rescind the Mexico City Policy, allowing our taxpayer money to be used for abortions outside of this country. You can find information about that on the Internet.

There’s another executive order waiting to be signed by President-elect Obama, which will give forty million dollars of our taxpayer money to do abortions outside of the USA. It is independent of the Mexico City Policy but you can see how one has to do with the other. Forty million dollars can make a lot of abortions possible in this country but imagine how many can be done in really poor countries with forty million dollars. A lot of babies can be killed with forty million dollars of our taxpayer money. Doesn’t it make you proud to be a taxpayer?

There is another item waiting to be signed that will perhaps make it to his desk on January 20th. On July 17th of this year, Senator Obama said that on his first day as president the first thing he would do would be to sign the Freedom of Choice Act. This means that girls in our country can have an abortion as early as age thirteen without parents or anyone ever knowing about it or being informed. To pay for these abortions…again, our taxpayer money. President elect Obama repeated his promise twice on July 17th.

Last week all of the Catholic bishops of this country got together in Baltimore and they sent a message to President elect Obama about the Freedom of Choice Act. One of the conditions of the Act would mean that everyone, every hospital would have to participate in performing abortions and the bishops in essence told Obama in their letter to him that if the Freedom of Choice Act is signed into law as he promised and Catholic hospitals are forced to join in killing the unborn then they will close every hospital in this country. This makes me proud to be a Catholic. – S. Ignatius, Angels Camp