[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 3]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 4101]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




          INTRODUCING THE TAXPAYER'S FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE ACT

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                             HON. RON PAUL

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                        Tuesday, March 15, 2011

  Mr. PAUL. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to introduce the Taxpayers' 
Freedom of Conscience Act, which forbids federal funds from being used 
for population control or ``family planning.'' President Obama's 
executive order allowing those who perform and/or promote abortion 
overseas to receive taxpayer money, as well as the health care law's 
failure to prevent taxpayer money from being used for abortions, bring 
new urgency to the need to protect pro-life Americans from being forced 
to subsidize abortion.
  It is not enough to say that ``family planning'' groups may not use 
federal funds to perform or promote abortion. After all, since money is 
fungible, federal funding of any activities of these organizations 
forces taxpayers to underwrite the organizations abortion activities. 
Thus, the Taxpayers' Freedom of Conscience Act is the only way to 
protect taxpayers from having to support what they ``disbelieve and 
abhor.''
  Thomas Jefferson eloquently made the case for Taxpayer's Freedom of 
Conscience Act when he said that: ``To compel a man to furnish 
contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he 
disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.''
  I hope all my colleagues will join me in helping end the ``sinful and 
tyrannical'' policy of forcing pro-life Americans to subsidize, either 
directly or indirectly, abortion by cosponsoring the Taxpayer Freedom 
of Conscience Act.

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