Obamacare's baby death panels, Part 2

I finished Part 1 last week, telling you how, from 2002-2008, Planned Parenthood, the largest but not only abortion agency to receive government funds, received $657,100,000 from federal taxpayers alone. But in just a single year, from 2008-2009, Planned Parenthood received $363,200,000 in government grants and contracts, a $13,600,000 increase from the prior year, that resulted in 324,800 abortions.

I then left you to ponder the question that Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, asked more than a year ago: "Why should people of conscience be forced to participate in any aspect of abortion?"

That is exactly where Washington is leading us unless this 112th Congress detours from forcing pro-life citizens to pay for abortions via Obamacare or the passing of some legislation like the Freedom of Choice Act. FOCA is a sweeping bill that would abolish all pro-life regulations across the nation, from parental notification laws to bans on all federal funding of abortion.

Thank God the pro-life cavalry has come to Washington! But they need our help to rally our representatives.

The good news, as David Barton and Wallbuilders recently reported, is that "13 of the 16 new senators are pro-life – an 81 percent pro-life class. (Compare this year's freshman Senate class with that of 2008, which was only 14 percent pro-life.) Similarly, of the 97 new freshmen in the U. S. House, 81 are pro-life – an 84 percent pro-life class. In fact, this election resulted in a net gain of 52 pro-life seats in the House!"

A week or so ago, Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, wrote,

As the new Congress begins, pro-life champions on Capitol Hill are already moving to protect families in unprecedented ways. In keeping with the backlash against President Obama's health care law, Republican Congressman Joe Pitts, R-Penn., has joined with Democrat Dan Lipinski, D-Ill., to draft legislation to remove any taxpayer funding of abortion within the law. This legislation is the "Protect Life Act." … Representative Chris Smith, R-N.J., also working with Rep. Lipinski, is reintroducing the "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act" which seeks to get taxpayers completely out of the abortion business and … Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., reintroduced the "Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act."

Given that the 112th Congress is the most pro-life Congress in recent history, now is the time to act and stop government subsidies killing innocent unborn life. I'd even challenge tea parties across our country to make more equitable the fight for the unborn as we do the fights for fiscal frugalness and the Constitution. In our passionate pursuit to cure our economy, are we abandoning those who will one day run it? We must equally fight for freedom fighters within the womb as well as those outside of it. Abortion isn't health care!

In 1983, President Reagan issued a proclamation establishing a National Sanctity of Human Life Sunday, which was also issued by Presidents George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush. The National Sanctity of Human Life Sunday is held on the Sunday in January that falls closest to the day on which the Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton decisions were handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 22, 1973.

This year, tens of millions will commemorate another Sanctity of Life Sunday on Jan. 23, 2011, in tens of thousands of churches across America. If you want to make a difference this year, here are eight excellent action items:

Encourage your local church leadership to join the throng of others in commemorating "Sanctity of Human Life Sunday" by send them this article, along with your thoughts and the contact information for official Sanctity of Human Life Sunday website at sohls.org or by phone at (205)979-7909, to find out different ways they can highlight the fight for life on Jan. 23.

Join the Spring "40 Days for Life," running from March 9-April 17, 2011

Sign the Family Research Council's petition to Congress to "Get taxpayers out of the abortion business"

Personally contact your representatives and senators at (202)224-3121 or Senate.gov and House.gov, and then contact the White House (202)456 2111; fax: (202)456-2461). Tell them that, as an American citizen, you demand them to fight for the rights of the unborn. Ask them to join Republican Rep. Joe Pitts, R-Pa., and Democrat Dan Lipinski, D-Ill., in their legislation, "Protect Life Act"; Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., in his reintroduction of the "Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act"; as well as Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., and Rep. Lipinski's reintroduction of the "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act."

Oppose the work and government financing of Planned Parenthood, who has just filed a restraining order trying to keep you from discovering the information from a former Planned Parenthood Director (Bryan, Texas) and "Employee of the Year," Abby Johnson. No doubt why, since Abby has already helped to expose the multi-billion dollar marketing of abortion in Episode 5 of the Emmy award-winning, "Facing Life Head On," available to watch online. She's also blowing the whistle on her former employer and telling the shocking truth about everything that she saw inside the abortion industry – and why she resigned her job to join the pro-life movement, in her brand new book, "Unplanned." (You can get a free chapter of it from the website.)

Please also read the article, "50 ways to help unborn babies and their mothers," by my friend and prolific author, Randy Alcorn, one of a host of great resources at his website, epm.org.

Get involved supporting and fighting for the future generations in your local community, like in your schools, churches or through nonprofit children foundations like mine, KickStartKids.

And to give you hope, my wife, Gena, and I would also encourage you to visit the website started by our dear friends Norm and Anne Miller, I Am Second website. In particular, please listen to the powerful testimony of Lisa Luby Ryan. It is well worth your couple-minute viewing.

Washington and America don't need to "turn the page" on culture wars like abortion. Rather, we need to reopen the pages of its history to our founders' elevated views of and rights for all human beings (including those in the womb), as documented in the Declaration of Independence and our Constitution. We need to revive and re-instill their value of humanity back into society, our children and our children's children.

Fifty-six founders even signed the Declaration of Independence to testify that all human life is "created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. [And] That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. …"

That is exactly why Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1809 at the end of his presidency, "The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government."

Washington, could wording be any clearer?