Under legislation in the U.S. House, students in Washington, D.C., will not be able to get funding to attend a better school — but they likely will have access to taxpayer money for an abortion.
On Tuesday, the House Rules Committee rejected an amendment to the Financial Services bill that would have preserved the successful D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program. It also rejected an amendment that would have continued to ban taxpayer funding of abortions in the District.
Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List, expressed her concerns in a recent article in The Weekly Standard:
"If Obama gets his way on this, the left-liberal District of Columbia government will be free to spend government money on abortions for the first time since 1995," she wrote. "This is apparently what the president has decided our nation's capital needs, given its steadily declining population, low rate of family formation, and recorded legal abortions already nearly equal to the number of its live births."
The full House is expected to vote on the Financial Services bill Thursday.
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Please urge your representative to vote "No" on the Financial Services spending bill because it does not include the longstanding ban on taxpayer funding of abortions in D.C.
— Roger Greer
