Search
Close this search box.

Speaker Pelosi’s First Priority: Promote Overseas Abortion, Not End Shutdown

Washington, D.C. — Today, Nancy Pelosi (D-Califorinia) takes the gavel as Speaker for the 116th Congress, and her priority agenda to dismantle the prolife policies of the Trump Administration take center stage.  In her first act, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2019, Pelosi’s price tag for ending a government shutdown includes repealing the Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance policy (formerly known as the Mexico City policy), and vastly increases taxpayer funding of the United National Population Fund (UNFPA) which is a chief contributor to China’s appalling policies of forced sterilization and coercive abortion. In essence, Pelosi wants Trump’s wall on abortion repealed while forcing Americans to finance the international abortion industry.
Penny Nance, CEO and President of Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee, called out Speaker Pelosi for playing abortion politics in the shutdown deal:

“Concerned Women for America strongly opposes the Pelosi pro-abortion agenda.  The price of a deal to end the government shutdown should not be tearing down the wall that protects American taxpayers from subsidizing the international abortion industry.  In expanding the Mexico City Policy early in his administration, President Trump sent a strong message that he will defend the unborn and support the vast majority of Americans who do not want their tax dollars paying for abortion at home or abroad.

“The Democrat’s Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2019 unmasks the real agenda of liberals in Congress – to promote the radical policies of pro-abortion activists, including Speaker Pelosi, whose unabashed agenda is to prop up the abortion industry even as young Americans today embrace what science dictates:  Abortion kills children.

“We urge Congress and President Trump to reject any deal to end the shutdown that repeals the Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance policy and expands funding for pro-abortion policies abroad.  Members of Congress take note:  Concerned Women for America will score against any spending bill containing these provisions. Your first vote for the 116th Congress will be on record for the millions of Americans who demand an end to taxpayer-funded abortions.”

For an interview with Penny Nance, contact Annabelle Rutledge at arutledge@cwfa.org or 916-792-3973.