this was the so-called dornan amendment named after congressman dornan for fiscal year 1989 appropriations bill that he talked about in 1988. this bill has -- this bill has been in place pretty much consistently over that time. the white house budget document released on may 7, appendix page 1209 asks congress to reveal the ban on congressionally appropriated funds and replace it with a book keeping requirement that would apply only to funds specifically contributed for federal programmed purposes. now, what i want to point out is this, that while the dornan amendment was officially put in place in 1989 and was there until 1993, for a few years under the clinton administration it was relaxed and what happened during that time was that the funding for abortions in the district of columbia continued and those funds for abortions actually increased the number of abortions in the district of columbia. and the way they did it was, according to then mayor, they authorized the use of $1 million from the, quote, medical charities fund, which was originally set up to help indigent aids patients to

1983 that pro-- proscribed funding under the us a pises of the federal employees benefit plan, the dornan amendment and other amendments actually permitted, facilitating ho -- facilitated those children who otherwise would have been aborted because public financing of abortion wasn't there that's true common ground. taxpayers don't want to subsidize chemical poisoning and dismembering of unborn children. you can talk, people can talk all they want. the cheap so fistry of choice is that it does not bring into the visibility that it deserves the very act of abortion, which is the maiming, ultimately the killing of an unborn child. s the year 2009. we know more about the magnificent life of an unborn child than ever before. microsurgeries are being done. these unborn children are the littlest patients. they can get blood transfusions. unfortunately, in some hospital rooms and clicks, they are being dismembered, chemically poisoned and being starved to death in the act of abortion which then is suggested to be a benign act. it is anything but. it's not compassion, it shows no sense of justice

that's why we had the dornan amendment. it made sense. it was only reasonable. so unfortunately, under the obama administration, we are taking the band-aid off this problem and exposing it to even more infection. and the infection is more money. and we know that more money will lead to more air abortions. particular -- to more abortions. particularly more abortions for babies of color. this is really a sad story. we don't want to just talk about sad stories because life is such a wonderful story. we would love to just be here and talk about the ps positive story of life. and it's a beautiful story. but this is a really ugly story. because it's about expanding more abortion, more misery for women who are forced into abortions, often against their will, who are given incomplete, inadequate information and may be headed for a lifetime of addiction or depression or a sense of loss and grief that they may have to deal with for 10, 15, 20 years. we don't want this to happen. we want women to be dignified. we don't want women to be brutalized. that's why we're here thi