Senator Harry Reid (D-Nevada) wants to put more money into the pockets of Planned Parenthood.
The Senate majority leader has introduced "The Prevention First Act" -- a measure that would provide billions of taxpayer dollars in part to promote abortion. Jim Sedlak of American Life League reports a large slice of the pie would go to Planned Parenthood -- and the bill would do other things, he adds. "Including writing Title X into permanent law so that it doesn't have to be reauthorized every year," Sedlak explains. "And Title X right now gives Planned Parenthood over $70 million a year -- and they want to more than double what Title X does." Senate Bill 21 would also pump more money into comprehensive sex education, which Sedlak stresses encourages children to begin intimacy. "It provides a massive $10-million program to promote the emergency contraception [Plan B, or the 'morning-after pill']. This is a product that, for every kit that Planned Parenthood sells, they make $25 in profit -- and last year they sold over [1.2 million] kits." In cases involving minors, those kits were sold without notifying parents or police. STOPP International, an affiliate of American Life League, is encouraging people to go to its website and sign a petition calling on Congress to defeat this bill as well as the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA), which would wipe out pro-life legislation passed in the past 36 years.
