Legislative Action Alert- June 20, 2003

Will Legislature Vote to Continue
Abortion-on-Demand Funding Policy?

Background:  The California Senate is expected to take up elements of California’s  2003-2004 budget next week. Pro-life legislators will attempt to change the radical funding policies of California’s Medi-Cal program, which pays for more than 110,000 abortions a year at a cost of approximately $34.5 million dollars.  
            There are many problems in addition to the astounding number of children killed at taxpayer expense:   

• abortions are available at any time during pregnancy, for any reason.

• the likely count of Medi-Cal funded abortions on babies big enough to hold in your  arms (after 20 weeks gestation) is more than 1500 each year,

• there are no requirements for adequate “informed consent,”

• no parental notification or consent is required for Medi-Cal abortions on teenagers,

• minors (and likely many others) are eligible for Medi-Cal funded abortions, not because they are poor, but because the state protects their “privacy” by paying for their abortions regardless of actual financial eligibility (for teenagers they simply do not count family income),

• and although there is an unexplained drop from 6% to 3.3% from 1997-1998, Medi-Cal still paid for approximately 3,640 “repeat abortions” in 1998-- that is 2 or more abortions in the same year for the same woman.           

            Pro-life legislators will likely try to amend this year’s budget to end this tax-funded promotion of abortion during the week of June 22.

Action:                
Call, Fax or E-Mail your State Senator.
The phone numbers for your state legislators can be found
under “senate,” in the “state government” pages of your telephone book.
For e-mail, go to www.sen.ca.gov and click on “Senators.”

Send a message in your own words, the gist of which might be:  Please support any amendments which will be offered to eliminate or limit the use of tax dollars to fund abortions.  State-funded abortions are unacceptable to the taxpayers of California, deadly to the unborn, and unhealthy-- even dangerous, for women.

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