America Needs Convictional Pro-Life Politicians

by Paul Batura | May 15, 2025 | Life

There’s a full court press on in Washington, D.C. to strip language calling for the defunding of Planned Parenthood from the anticipated reconciliation bill.

According to a House Memorandum, Section 44126 “prohibits Medicaid funds to be paid to providers that are nonprofit organizations, that are essential community providers that are primarily engaged in family planning services or reproductive services, provide for abortions other than for Hyde Amendment exceptions, and which received $1,000,000 or more (to either the provider or the provider’s affiliates) in payments from Medicaid payments in 2024.”

This move to defund abortion giants like Planned Parenthood is long overdue – and causing some representatives to second guess their commitment to get the government out of the business of taking pre-born children’s lives.

 “Should pro-life taxpayers be made to pay taxes used for abortion?” asked Focus on the Family president Jim Daly. “Of course not. The greatness of a nation is measured by many things, but especially by how it treats the vulnerable and defenseless. The use of taxpayer money to support the unfettered killing of innocent life is a tragedy beyond qualification.”

That certain politicians might go wobbly on such a foundational issue might be unsettling, but also an all too familiar consequence of elections and poor judgement.

Noah Webster, who was born just prior to the American Revolution, once warned:

[I]f the citizens neglect their Duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made, not for the public good so much as for selfish or local purposes; corrupt or incompetent men will be appointed to execute the Laws; the public revenues will be squandered on unworthy men; and the rights of the citizen will be violated or disregarded.

As George Washington was preparing to retire to his beloved Mount Vernon, the nation’s first stated in his famed Farewell Address:

However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.

In other words, unprincipled men (and women) are likely to use taxpayer funds for unscrupulous causes – especially if the people behind those endeavors are bankrolling their reelection efforts.

Our country is in desperate need of representatives who will support the right things regardless of their electoral implications. We need pro-life individuals with conviction who are willing to surrender their seat in exchange for saving and protecting innocent preborn babies.

Organizations like Planned Parenthood don’t deserve one penny of our hard-earned money. Instead, they should be called to account for the millions of innocent lives they have coldly snuffed out over the last decades.

Please call or email your Representative and politely but pointedly ask them to support the inclusion of Section 44126 of the Reconciliation bill that calls for the banning of taxpayer funds for abortion.  

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