From Life Site News:
Widespread discontent with the administration’s progressive agenda, particularly on abortion-funding health care, spurred voters to launch a strong pro-life Majority into the House of Representatives in the 2010 midterm elections.
“The American people have spoken, and replaced 38 pro-abortion Members with pro-life Members and replaced 14 unreliable Members with reliable pro-life Representatives,” said Congressman Chris Smith, Co-Chairman of the Congressional Pro-life Caucus. “Of the 93 Members of the Freshman Class at least 77 are committed to defending the unborn…
Smith introduced legislation in this Congress to ban all government funding for abortion – this, naturally, got nowhere with Pelosi’s Culture of Death majority, but the new House Majority will probably pass it. Then will come the fight in the Senate, but that might go better for Life than most expect. The “2012 Democrats” will want such a populist measure to vote for (after all, forbidding government spending, in and of itself, is popular these days) and may help the GOP minority get it done. What Obama will do with it remains to be seen – but if he were to veto such a measure, it would be a double-whammy against him: he’d signal his support for profligate spending, as well as his support for something (federally-funded abortions) rejected by large majorities of the American people.
We’re slowly moving the ball our way – one day, America will once again be a Pro-Life nation, as enjoined by our Declaration of Independence.
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