According to both the House and Senate subcommittees for Labor and
Health and Human Services, Congress will soon finalize its decision regarding next year's proposed $35 million increase for family planning (Title X). Both subcommittees expect a resolution within a week.
"It is incredible that the so-called pro-life leadership in Congress would even contemplate caving in to the lame duck Clinton regime on this matter," said Ed Szymkowiak, national director of STOPP International, a project of American Life League. STOPP estimates that Planned Parenthood will receive about $7 million dollars of the $35 million increase, bringing its total Title X share to about $52 million.
Planned Parenthood uses this money to distribute abortifacient products that kill babies during their first week of life.
"This increase will just about cover the more than $7 million Planned Parenthood spent promoting Al Gore during the presidential campaign. You would think Republicans would remember this and cut, rather than increase, funding to Planned Parenthood, " Szymkowiak said. "This is a domestic replay of the same spineless retreat Congress made in October when it upped international family planning funding by $40 million."
STOPP is urging Americans to contact Republican House Speaker Dennis Hastert (202-225-0600) and Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (202-224-3135), also a Republican. "Let them know that you are appalled that they are letting the Clinton administration dictate another Title X increase. Ask them to cut funding to Planned Parenthood by reducing Title X appropriations instead," said Szymkowiak.
