DC Mayor Promises to Implement Taxpayer-Funded Abortion Ban
- Steven Ertelt - LifeNews.com
- Apr 22, 2011
Earlier this week, Congressional Republicans sent a letter to Mayor Vincent Gray of Washington, DC requesting that he faithfully implement the reinstated ban on taxpayer funding of abortions in the nation’s capital.
Gray has sent a letter back to the pro-life House and Senate GOP lawmakers confirming he intends to put the ban back in place now that Speaker John Boehner pressured top Democrats and pro-abortion President Barack Obama to put the ban in place in exchange for supporting the recent long-term budget deal.
The letter Republicans sent Gray on Tuesday also accused the Gray administration of snubbing previous requests for information on how many taxpayer funded abortions were done during last year, when Democrats successfully removed the abortion funding ban for the District of Columbia for the first time in over a decade. According to a Washington Post report, Gray officials blamed the lack of information on the previous DC mayor, former Mayor Adrian M. Fenty.
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