{"id":194649,"date":"2019-01-18T15:39:56","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T21:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=194649"},"modified":"2019-01-18T19:13:53","modified_gmt":"2019-01-19T01:13:53","slug":"trump-promises-veto-legislation-weakens-protection-human-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/trump-promises-veto-legislation-weakens-protection-human-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump vows to veto legislation &#8216;that weakens the protection of human life&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>President Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\/news\/article\/melanie-arter\/trump-promises-veto-any-legislation-weakens-protection-human-life\">vowed<\/a> Friday to veto any bill that weakens already in place pro-life protections for the preborn.\u00a0Addressing the crowd at the annual <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/hundreds-thousands-march-washington-abortion\/\">March for Life<\/a> via a videotaped message, Trump stated,\u00a0&#8220;Today I have signed a letter to Congress to make clear that if they send any legislation to my desk that weakens the protection of human life,\u00a0I will issue a veto, and we have the support to uphold those vetoes.&#8221; In addition, he <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Trump-blanket-veto-letter-Jan-2019-sm.pdf\">sent a letter<\/a> to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi today, reiterating the same, labeling the House&#8217;s day-one attempts to &#8220;reverse important pro-life protections&#8221; as &#8220;alarming.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the House of Representatives conducts its business, I urge that it respect and continue these <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and other important pro-life protections. I believe it is the most basic duty of government to guard the innocent. With that in mind, I will veto any legislation that weakens current pro-life <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Federal policies and laws, or that encourages the destruction of innocent human life at any stage. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0hsJEOpx14w\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The support the president mentioned is that of the 169 Representatives and 49 Senators who this week wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/lawmakers-trump-veto-pro-life\/\">letters<\/a> to Trump requesting that he promise to veto such legislation, and vowing to vote in support of his vetoes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We respectfully urge you to publicly commit to veto any appropriations bill that weakens any existing pro-life protections on taxpayer funding or any other bill that would weaken federal policy on abortion. We will vote to sustain your veto,&#8221; members of Congress wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Like Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush before him, Trump has agreed to this request.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As president, I will always defend the first right in our Declaration of Independence &#8211; the right to life,&#8221; said Trump. &#8220;During my first week in office, I reinstated the Mexico City policy. We have taken bold action to protect the religious freedoms of doctors, nurses, and charities like the Little Sisters of the Poor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ:\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/hundreds-thousands-march-washington-abortion\/\">March for Life 2019 in Washington D.C. \u2018values the entirety\u2019 of women<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We issued a new proposal to prohibit Title X taxpayer funding from going to any clinic that performs abortions,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;We are supporting the choice of adoption and foster care, including through the support of faith-based adoption services, and I am supporting the\u00a0U.S. Senate&#8217;s efforts to make permanent the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits taxpayer funding for abortion in the spending bills.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The president thanked everyone who traveled to Washington, D.C. for the March for Life, including the &#8220;young people who give us hope for the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Together, we will work to save the lives of unborn children, so that they have a chance to live and to love, to thrive and to dream,&#8221; he said, &#8220;and to bless our nation and reach their full and glorious potential.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump vowed Friday to veto any bill that weakens already in place pro-life protections for the preborn.\u00a0Addressing the crowd at the annual March for Life via a videotaped message, Trump stated,\u00a0&#8220;Today I have signed a letter to Congress to make clear that if they send any legislation to my desk that weakens the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":187739,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3473,11],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - 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