Texas governor Rick Perry this week signed a measure that defunds Planned Parenthood in the Lone Star state, thus depriving the abortion organization of taxpayer funds.
Texas has now joined four other states -- Indiana, Kansas, New Jersey, and North Caroline -- in depriving Planned Parenthood of funding in its state budget.
The defunding of Planned Parenthood in Texas provides taxpayers with a well-deserved break, as their hard-earned tax dollars will no longer be used to pay for abortions. In fact, it would behoove all 50 states to pass a similar law.
The fact that President Barack Obama is using American taxpayers' money to fund abortions and birth control programs in many foreign countries is wrong -- both spiritually and economically. Perhaps, if he deleted this ridiculous economic aid from the federal budget -- which he really should -- Obama could avoid calling for his unpopular plan to increase federal taxes.
In addition to being denied funding by taxpayers for economic reasons, abortions -- more importantly -- should be denied funding for religious reasons.
Whether we want to accept it or not, the fact is that abortion is the murder of a human fetus. Consequently, abortion is a very serious violation of Christian doctrine.
The worst decision the U.S. Supreme Court made in its entire history was its 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision in which the high court allowed abortions to occur in America. By ruling in favor of abortion, the Supreme Court, in effect, ruled it is all right to murder an unborn child.
This decision has been a terrible tragedy for America -- especially for its morality as well as its jurisprudence -- because it conveys the message that Americans lack the respect for human life that they should have, as a predominantly Christian society.
Indeed, it would not surprise me one iota, if the Supreme Court reversed its position on the Roe vs. Wade decision, with a ruling in another abortion-related case it could well hear in the near future.
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