DEACON FOR LIFE

Were there to be no support in the whole history of ethical and moral thought, were there no acknowledged confirmation from medical science, were the history of legal opinion to the contrary, we would still have to conclude on the basis of God's Holy Word that the unborn child is a person in the sight of God. He is protected by the sanctity of life graciously given to each individual by the Creator, Who alone places His image upon man and grants them any right to life which they have.

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

An Orange County supervisor is asking his colleagues on the board to cut funding to Planned Parenthood

"We have a problem with financing Planned Parenthood"

Orange County supervisor wants board to terminate contracts with abortion provider

An Orange County supervisor is asking his colleagues on the board to cut funding to Planned Parenthood, saying the county should not be giving money to an organization that provides abortions.

In a meeting of the board of supervisors scheduled to begin today at 9:30 a.m., Supervisor John Moorlach will ask the board to end two county contracts with Planned Parenthood approved last year that total $341,788.

"We have a problem with financing Planned Parenthood, period," Mario Mainero, Moorlach's chief of staff, told the Orange County Register. "We just don't think government money should be used to talk to teens and preteens about birth control and abortion."

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