My position on protecting the lives of preborn children is the same as Nobel Prize winner Mother Teresa, President Ronald Reagan, and Hippocrates, who is recognized as the Father of Medicine. These respected leaders hardly advocated a radical social agenda. I fact, even Planned Parenthood, in its early days, acknowledged that abortion takes the life of a child.
I am 100% pro-life! I have spent my 24 years as a delegate in Virginia fighting for justice for citizens, both born and unborn, despite unsupportive or unfriendly government officials who promote abortion policies that endanger women. Women deserve better than abortion!
Human life is a gift bestowed upon us by our Creator. The right to live and cooperate in the creation of life is a fundamental right, without which all other rights are meaningless. The intentional taking of a human life is not a “private right.” Our Founding Fathers fought hard to establish our Republic to protect the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Our Declaration of Independence states that “all men are CREATED equal.” I truly believe that.
I find it interesting, but not surprising, that the Playboy Foundation paid for the legal research which led to the U.S. Supreme Court decisions which invalidated every state law then on the books which had restricted abortion and protected life. While a boyfriend might help pay for a girlfriend’s abortion, the woman is left to suffer a years of regret and possible future inability to have children. Fathers also suffer regret yet have no legal right to protect their own child.
Abortion is hardly the clean, safe procedure it is purported to be. Google “Gosnell” to learn the hard truth behind the abortion industry, which American taxpayers involuntarily subsidize through their hard earned tax dollars. Incredibly, taxpayers give a half billion dollars a year to the largest abortion business in the nation, Planned Parenthood. I will continue to oppose all tax funding of Planned Parenthood and abortion. Google: Center for Medical Progress to view undercover videos of abortion clinic employees pricing human organs from aborted babies. (Videos are graphic.)
As a private citizen in 1976,, I helped devise the federal Hyde Amendment prohibiting the use of federal tax monies to pay for Medicaid abortions. The Hyde Amendment is still federal law although modified from its original language.