Legislative Action Alerts- June 16, 2004

Tax Dollars for Abortion on Demand

 The California Legislature Will Vote on Whether to
Continue the Abortion-on-Demand Funding Policy in Medi-Cal

Background:  The California Assembly and Senate are expected to take up elements of California's 2004-2005 budget as early as next week.  Pro-life legislators will attempt to change the radical funding policies of California's Medi-Cal program, which pays for more than 90,000 abortions a year at a cost of approximately $33 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 Medi-Cal paid for more than 3,500 "repeat abortions" in 2002-- 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 as soon as the week of June 20.

 Action:                

Call, Fax or E-Mail your State Senator and Assembly Member.

The phone numbers for your state legislators can be found under

 "senate" and "assembly" in the "state government" pages of your telephone book.

For e-mail, go to www.sen.ca.gov and click on "Senators" and to

www.asm.ca.gov and click on "Find my District."

            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

California ProLife Council (CPLC) (www.californiaprolife.org.) is the largest statewide organization in California solely dedicated to pro-life issues. CPLC is a non-sectarian, non-partisan, non-profit grassroots organization of pro-life groups and individuals in California dedicated to protecting and fostering the most basic value of our society-respect for LIFE itself.  We seek to educate our community in regard to abortion, euthanasia, and infanticide, to identify and organize the pro-life population of the state into an effective team, and to restore respect for human life to public policy.  California ProLife Council is the California affiliate of the National Right to Life Committee, Inc. (www.nrlc.org)

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