Source: Fox News
Summary
Former Vice President Mike Pence is urging Congressional Republicans to cut off federal taxpayer funding to Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers. Pence’s think tank, the Advancing American Freedom Foundation (AAFF), has released a policy roadmap with 20 key legislative priorities, including ensuring a temporary ban on Medicaid funding for abortion providers does not expire on July 4. Pence warned that failure to act would hand Planned Parenthood a massive paycheck on Independence Day.
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As expected, the matter has reached another stage.
Pence reiterates his stance on abortion funding, using the looming expiration of the temporary ban to push for permanent action. The AAFF memo provides a strategy to permanently ban or extend the pause on taxpayer funding for abortion providers. The memo also includes 19 other priorities, such as targeting companies that hire illegal immigrant workers and repealing “green energy” subsidies. Pence’s language emphasizes the importance of conservative policy and the role of think tanks in advancing it.
Pence’s warning about Planned Parenthood’s potential “massive paycheck” on Independence Day serves as a familiar rhetorical device, framing the issue as a matter of patriotic values.
