Indiana needs to defund the abortion industry
State government needs to discipline local communities that advance a pro-abortion culture war.
It was 52 years ago today that the Supreme Court fabricated a "right" to abortion that exists nowhere in the Constitution. That ruling was mercifully overturned in June of 2022, but the damage has been done. Over 62 million innocent babies have been murdered in the womb, a death toll that is ten times the Nazi Holocaust. Countless tens of millions more have been murdered by chemical abortion, a fact that is largely ignored, even by Christians.
A number of states have moved to ban abortion in the last two and a half years, including our own state of Indiana. Sadly, other states have not only failed to protect the unborn, the have strengthened "abortion rights." But even in our own state, with a surprisingly strong (but not perfect) abortion ban, there is more to do.
The next step is to discipline local communities that advance a pro-abortion culture war. Bloomington city government and Monroe County government give grants to Planned Parenthood every single year. PP is, of course, America's #1 abortion provider and has killed thousands of babies at their South College facility since the 1990's. But it actually got worse in 2022, when the Bloomington City Council passed legislation creating an "abortion fund" to help women seek "abortion care" out of state.
The Indiana General Assembly should pass legislation making it illegal for local government to fund any business that performs abortions, whether in Indiana or not. The state legislature should also make it illegal for local government to pay for women to travel to have their babies murdered. The Republican Party has a super-majority in both houses of the legislature, as well as a Republican governor. There is no reason this cannot be done, and state-level Republicans have been aware of this outrage for years.
We need a national abortion ban, and every Republican Party platform from 1984 to 2016 called for a Human Life Amendment to the Constitution. That is unlikely to happen any time soon, but that is no obstacle to the Indiana State Legislature acting to protect the public treasury and prevent local taxpayers from being forced to subsidize the abortion industry through our property tax dollars.