Jan 25 - John Boehner: Ending Abortion Is 'One Of Our Most Fundamental Goals This Year'

As hundreds of thousands of people braved sub-freezing temperatures in Washington, D.C., on Friday to join the anti-abortion protest March for Life, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) took the opportunity to reiterate his commitment to banning abortion in America for good. Addressing the crowd at the National Mall via video broadcast, Boehner said it's time for anti-abortion activisits to "commit ourselves to doing everything we can to protect the sanctity of life." Step one, he said, is making permanent the Hyde Amendment, which prevents federal dollars from being used to pay for abortions except in cases of[..] or incest. "For the new Congress, that means bringing together a bipartisan pro-life majority and getting to work," Boehner said. "In accordance with the will of the people, we will again work to pa#s the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, formally codifying the Hyde Amendment." Boehner said he will make it a national priority to "help make abortion a relic of the past." "Let that be one of our most fundamental goals this year," he said. The March for Life attracted a diverse crowd of young and old protesters from across the country. Hundreds of parents had bundled up their infants and toddlers and strapped protest signs to their strollers. Michael Kennedy, 33, and his wife Bethany, who is pregnant, drove their four children down from Westerly, Rhode Island to stand in 20-degree weather on the Mall. "They're troopers," Bethany told HuffPost. "We felt like we have a responsibility just to be a witness to everyone else, to see that this is life, our children. We needed to be here." Several lawmakers made it out to the protest to address the crowd in person. Rep. Diane Black (R-Tenn.) touted a bill she recently introduced that would strip Title X family planning funds from Planned Parenthood, and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) delivered a sermon that called for a "spiritual cleansing." "Our nation is adrift, adrift in a wilderness where right and wrong have become subservient to a hedonism of the moment," Paul said. "I believe our country is in need of a spiritual cleansing." He added, "We much preach a gospel so full of compa#sion, a gospel so full of justice that it cannot be resisted. Then and only then will the law again protect the innocent."

Not jobs?.........this is why they are loosing.......

or maybe they're losing because they got the same education as you

Outside of[..] and incest, I don't agree with abortions either. I never got the "It's my body, I do what I want" argument from women. If you don't want people to legislate your body, then keep your legs closed. Nobody told you to engage in risky behavior and then complain about the consequences. The use of contraceptives and good judgment should replace abortion. But that's just my opinion.

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Outside of[..] and incest, I don't agree with abortions either. I never got the "It's my body, I do what I want" argument from women. If you don't want people to legislate your body, then keep your legs closed. Nobody told you to engage in risky behavior and then complain about the consequences. The use of contraceptives and good judgment should replace abortion. But that's just my opinion.

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makes absolutely no !!ing sense, your logic is trash, u one of those mutha!!as that preach that bull!! then cry about child support and blame it all on the woman like she got herself pregnant, i don't agree with abortions either but the gov't can't tell me what the !! to do with my body, if they tried to tell u how many times to fap would that be cool? !! outta here with that dumb !! [pic]

your statements are illogical.

they can have se# with who ever they want to, that does not give your or any government agency the right to tell them they can or cannot have a baby.


birth control can fail, condoms can break, !! happens, etc....

Good judgement in my opinion is a teen who decides to have an abortion instead of dropping out of high school to raise her baby...or the college student who decides to have an abortion so she can finish school and get her PhD...

I'm sorry but its dumb to tell a person what they can or cannot do to their own body just because you are morally opposed to it [pic] people should be free to have their own beliefs and decide whatever they want for themselves. What's next? Outlawing tattoo's, piercings and plastic surgery? [pic]

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So being responsible makes no sense? The majority of people knows that se# can lead to pregnancy. It's not a secret. They take the chance for the pleasure. When !! goes wrong, they want to act like they didn't understand the consequences of their actions.

I can fap all I want to, I'm not bringing life into this world. The only body I'm harming is myself. Not the same with abortion. People should take responsibility for their actions.

Outside of[..] and incest, I don't agree with abortions either. I never got the "It's my body, I do what I want" argument from women. If you don't want people to legislate your body, then keep your legs closed. Nobody told you to engage in risky behavior and then complain about the consequences. The use of contraceptives and good judgment should replace abortion. But that's just my opinion.

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u can't get pregnant, u can't have babies, u have no !!ing say so in what a woman does with her body [pic]

You right, I can't get pregnant but I can promote responsible behavior. A fetus is IN a woman's body, but it's not her body. Two separate bodies, a mother and a child. So yes, she can do what she wants with her body but that doesn't give her the right to do what she want with others.

end abortion and we gonna end up with more people like that lady who had all those kids and said people need to be helping her..

Your just giving the embryo a definition that it does not deserve yet though......it may be life,but at that point it's just a thing it's not a being.......and a thing can't have rights.....and the egg that creates the fetus is indeed part of the woman's body......

Your just giving the embryo a definition that it does not deserve yet though......it may be life,but at that point it's just a thing it's not a being.......and a thing can't have rights.....and the egg that creates the fetus is indeed part of the woman's body......

What is your definition of being? [pic]