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Planned Parenthood (see LiveAction’s latest undercover video) is fighting a budget amendment introduced by Governor Bob McDonnell that would prohibit taxpayer funding of most elective, low-income abortions. The General Assembly will vote on the amendment during tomorrow’s veto session.

We need your immediate action to thwart Planned Parenthood’s attack!

Polls consistently show that between 60 and 70 percent of Americans oppose taxpayer funding of abortion. Opposition that crosses gender and political lines exposes Planned Parenthood as extremely outside the mainstream but, unfortunately, they have influence in the Virginia Senate.

The Family Foundation and several of our pro-life partners have advocated for this amendment for several years. The amendment brings Virginia substantially in line with federal law that requires we pay for abortions in the instances of rape, incest or life of the mother. Currently, Virginia is one of only 17 states that funds elective (i.e., “health” of the mother) abortions.

To make matters more interesting, with a Senate chamber almost evenly divided politically, there is a strong possibility the vote on the amendment could be a tie. In that case, the presiding officer would cast the tiebreaking vote, and normally that is Lt. Governor Bill Bolling. Unfortunately, the Lt. Governor Bolling is stranded in Italy due to the travel restrictions over that Europe caused by the volcanic ash cloud emanating from Iceland. Thus, the President Pro Tem, Senator Chuck Colgan (D-29, Manassas), will preside.

We believe the key to sustaining the amendment lies with a few key legislators: Senators Colgan, Roscoe Reynolds (D-20, Martinsville), Phil Puckett (D-38, Tazewell) and Fred Quayle (R-13, Suffolk). Please contact these Senators immediately by clicking the links to e-mail them and urge them to vote yes on Governor McDonnell’s elective abortion amendment.

Senator Fred Quayle: district13@senate.virginia.gov

Senator Roscoe Reynolds: district20@senate.virginia.gov

Senator Chuck Colgan: district29@senate.virginia.gov 

Senator Phil Puckett: district38@senate.virginia.gov

Planned Parenthood talks a lot about “choice.” However, undercover video after undercover video has exposed the nation’s leading abortion provider as anything but an organization concerned with providing options, women’s health or even upholding the law, covering up potential sexual abuse (see video here) and statutory rape cases (see video here) rather than notify law enforcement, all to procure paying customers.

Now, another shocking undercover video recently released by Live Action shows — as if we didn’t already know — that Planned Parenthood personnel will lie about health and medical issues, straight to a woman’s face, in order to suck in another check. To do that, Planned Parenthood “counselors” and abortionists attempt to dehumanize babies through manipulative word play. It’s an attempt to sever all cognitive, rational and loving connection between the mother and her baby, specifically by refusing to use the word “baby,” even correcting the “patient” (i.e., victim) when she says “baby.” Instead, they euphemistically call the baby a “pregnancy” or “fetus” and say it’s not a baby “until it’s born.”

Planned Parenthood even lies about heart beats, instead saying the the unborn baby has ”heart tones” up to a certain point, whatever that might mean. But perhaps the most apalling lies come from the abortionist himself, when he tells the “patient” that abortions are “very safe. Safer than having a baby, actually.” Which doesn’t exactly explain why a New Jersey woman went into a coma after a botched abortion and recently won $1.9 million in a settlement (see LifeNews.com).  

Perhaps more disturbing, and something to look into for an enterprising Wisconsin attorney (where the undercover video was taken), is that the abortionist admits to performing abortions for 40 years, which means he started four years before Roe v. Wade legalized it. Jeremy Wiggins adds his comments on the video and the New Jersey case at Rightly Concerned. (You can see all of Live Action’s Planned Parenthood undercover videos at its YouTube channel, here.) 

It all points to Planned Parenthood’s reason for being, succinctly stated by Lila Rose, Live Action’s president:

Planned Parenthood, while claiming to support patient self-determination, operates with an ‘abortion-first mentality.’

Nothing proves it more shockingly and vividly than this video:

Disconnecting the mother from her baby rhetorically and emotionally by dehumanizing the baby: Remember, it’s “heart tones,” NOT “heart beats;” it’s a “pregnancy,” NOT a ”baby.” Not to mention an abortionist who says he’s performed abortions longer than they’ve been legal.