Statements about Abortion
After prenatal diagnosis, "90 percent of Down syndrome children in America are aborted."
"The Obama administration ... would impose on every Catholic institution, every Jewish institution, every Protestant institution the Obamacare standard of what you have to buy as insurance."
Says Mitt Romney "put Planned Parenthood on a state medical board but failed to put a pro-life group on the same board."
"Romney signed government-mandated health care with taxpayer-funded abortions."
"As speaker, Gingrich even supported taxpayer funding of some abortions."
Says Newt Gingrich "made an affirmative statement that he would not only support but he would campaign for Republicans who were in support of the barbaric procedure known as partial-birth abortion."
Says Mitt Romney flip-flopped on abortion.
Says Mitt Romney "is committed to overturning Roe vs. Wade, and he supports such amendments that define a life as beginning at the moment of conception."
Congressional Republicans have introduced dozens of bills on social issues and other topics, but "zero on job creation."
Herman Cain is a "pro-choice candidate."
Says that Sarah Palin and Craig Huey "would ban a woman's right to choose in every case"
Abortion services are "well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does."
"A third of all the young people in America are not in America today because of abortion, because one in three pregnancies end in abortion."
"A U.S. Government Accountability Office report says Planned Parenthood Federation of America cannot find some $1.3 billion given to it by the federal government from 2002 through 2008."
"Any child born prematurely, according to the president, in his own words, can be killed."
Ken Buck wants to "outlaw abortion, even in cases of rape or incest."
The Obama administration will give Pennsylvania $160 million to pay for health insurance plans that cover "any legal abortion."
"Minnick voted to let the government fund abortion under Obamacare."
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