{"id":72628,"date":"2015-08-28T23:00:04","date_gmt":"2015-08-29T03:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=72628"},"modified":"2015-09-17T23:15:05","modified_gmt":"2015-09-18T03:15:05","slug":"breaking-tx-launches-initiative-stop-planned-parenthood-selling-aborted-baby-parts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/breaking-tx-launches-initiative-stop-planned-parenthood-selling-aborted-baby-parts\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas launches initiative to stop Planned Parenthood from selling aborted baby parts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Don&#8217;t mess with Texas, especially when babies are involved. That&#8217;s the message the state&#8217;s pro-life governor, Greg Abbott, is sending. Abbott<a href=\"http:\/\/gov.texas.gov\/news\/press-release\/21355\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0announced an initiative<\/a> that would\u00a0further anchor Texas as one of the most pro-life states in the nation.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">The LIFE Initiative comes in direct response to what the governor&#8217;s office calls &#8220;gruesome videos filmed at Planned Parenthood.&#8221; The creation of this initiative is designed to protect babies, and to prevent such atrocities from happening again in the state.\u00a0 Abbott said:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Gruesome \u2013 and potentially illegal \u2013 harvesting of baby body parts by Planned Parenthood cannot be allowed in Texas. Treating unborn children as commodities to be sold is an abomination. The barbaric practice of harvesting and selling baby body parts must end.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The LIFE Initiative has some tenets which will be implemented as quickly as possible. Some can be enacted now, but others will require a change to the law. LIFE is an acronym that stands for the following tenets:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>L<\/strong>aws must be changed to (1) make it a felony under Texas law to perform a partial-birth abortion; and (2) make it illegal for abortion doctors to risk a woman\u2019s health by altering the procedure to preserve fetal body parts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>I<\/strong>mprove and expand the availability of adoption services; and increase awareness about Texas\u2019 already best-in-the-nation child-support enforcement program, so that young mothers considering how to deal with pregnancy know the father will be held accountable to support his family.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>F<\/strong>unding for Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers out of taxpayer money must be eliminated completely, both at the State and local levels.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>E<\/strong>liminate and criminalize any sale or transaction of fetal tissue by an abortion clinic for any purpose whatsoever.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.plannedparenthoodexposed.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-68636 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liveactionnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DefundAd-400b.jpg\" alt=\"DefundAd-400b\" width=\"400\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DefundAd-400b.jpg 400w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DefundAd-400b-300x128.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The governor&#8217;s office also notes that since there are many current investigations happening in Texas regarding the Planned Parenthood videos, results of those investigations may expand the LIFE Initiative to encompass any new findings.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, pro-abortion groups accused the governor of being an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/news\/state-regional-govt-politics\/abbott-announced-anti-abortion-intiative-targets-p\/nnSsf\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;extremist&#8221; who wants to take away women&#8217;s reproductive rights<\/a>, but the rhetoric of such groups is falling more and more on deaf ears.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout this scandal, legislators and governors have acted swiftly, but they have also made it clear that apart from abortion, funding is available for real\u00a0health clinics, and women will receive any reproductive health care they need&#8211;so long as abortion is not involved. Funding comprehensive health clinics\u00a0gives women more options, more clinics to choose from, and holistic\u00a0health care services.<\/p>\n<p>Texas has taken the lead yet again, and now its LIFE Initiative reminds abortion proponents that the state\u00a0will not tolerate their extremism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t mess with Texas, especially when babies are involved. That&#8217;s the message the state&#8217;s pro-life governor, Greg Abbott, is sending. 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