Bush's next executive order could stop federal funding of US abortion promoters

"President Bush is right in saying that 'taxpayer funds should not be used to pay for abortion or advocate or actively promote abortion either here or abroad,'" Ed Szymkowiak, national director of STOPP International, told America's press corps in Washington, D.C.

"At present, US taxpayers are funding groups that actively promote surgical abortion. Therefore, the pre-Clinton era Title X restrictions must be reinstated on Title X ‘family planning’ spending -- as a first step to eliminating Title X completely.”

Szymkowiak pointed out that in the 1991 Rust v. Sullivan case, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. The high court declared that such restrictions on Title X spending were a legal construction of Section 1008 of the Public Health Services Act.

However in 1993, President Bill Clinton rescinded the Title X restrictions in a memo to his secretary of Health and Human Services, Donna Shalala.

"Clinton’s memo forced U.S. taxpayers to empower the Big Abortion industry’s destructive abortion promotion campaign against American preborn children," Szymkowiak said. "Every American is a person from the moment of fertilization (conception), and President Bush must fulfill his promise to defend all Americans persons, including the preborn."

"In calling on President Bush to reinstate Title X restrictions, in no way am I saying that this is enough. Title X is bad to the bone. Even with these Title X restrictions, US taxpayers will still be directly funding the destruction of innocent preborn persons through abortion-inducing IUDs and chemicals. Therefore, Title X must be completely eliminated," said Szymkowiak.