WASHINGTON, D.C. (04-14-11) – Americans United for Life Action President and CEO Dr. Charmaine Yoest urged the Senate to support House Concurrent Resolution 36, authored by Representatives Diane Black (R-TN) and Martha Roby (R-AL), in a letter going to every Senate office in advance of votes anticipated later today. House Concurrent Resolution 36 ensures that no funds made available under H.R. 1473 support the nation’s largest abortion provider—Planned Parenthood Federation of America and its affiliates. AULA will score this key, cost-cutting vote.

In the letter, Yoest noted for the Senators: “Recent polls reveal that an overwhelming majority of Americans—whether pro-life or pro-abortion—oppose the use of federal monies to support abortion.  In 2009, Planned Parenthood reported performing 332,278 abortions, 8,270 more abortions than it performed in 2008. Planned Parenthood is expanding the reach of its abortion business by dispensing the abortion drug RU-486 via Skype, in violation of the Food and Drug Administration’s protocol, and circumventing state laws designed to protect women. Planned Parenthood itself has recently made plain the centrality of abortion to its mission, mandating that every Planned Parenthood affiliate have at least one clinic performing abortion within the next two years.”

To read the letter in full, click here.