{"id":4106,"date":"2007-08-07T10:22:16","date_gmt":"2007-08-07T10:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4106"},"modified":"2025-09-30T02:08:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T02:08:51","slug":"prolife-democra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4106","title":{"rendered":"Prolife Democrat responds to Schumer and Clinton NO vote for health care benefits to pregnant poor women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend John Lally is a dedicated Democrat. And he&#8217;s also a member of <strong>Democrats for Life of America<\/strong>. Here&#8217;s his fax letter to Clinton and Schumer regarding their vote denying funding to pregnant poor women and their unborn children (The vote was 49-50!). You&#8217;ll get the gist from the fax, and a link for more info is underneath.<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>August 2, 2007<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><strong>Dear Senator,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><strong>We were very disappointed to learn that &#8211; unlike Senators Kennedy, Kerry, Casey, Nelson, and Landrieu &#8211; you voted against the Allard amendment to the SCHIP bill on Thursday night that would have helped poor pregnant women and their unborn children obtain prenatal care &#8211; you voted against restoring a program that allows states to provide help for pregnant women in difficult financial circumstances. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><strong>This makes us seriously question your sincerity when you and other Democrats talk about favoring common ground measures that help to make abortion rare. We&#8217;ve been trying to convince our formerly Democratic friends and relatives that the common ground approach was the way to go legislatively regarding abortion, but you&#8217;ve seriously set that effort back with this vote that refuses aid to poor pregnant women.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><strong>Sincerely,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><strong>Dr. and Mrs. John J. Lally<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hvcljournal.typepad.com\/lifenet\/2007\/08\/senates-defeat-.html\"><strong>LifeNet: Senate&#8217;s defeat of healthcare benefits for poor pregnant women and their unborn children; with a response from proli&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend John Lally is a dedicated Democrat. And he&#8217;s also a member of Democrats for Life of America. Here&#8217;s his fax letter to Clinton and Schumer regarding their vote denying funding to pregnant poor women and their unborn children (The vote was 49-50!). You&#8217;ll get the gist from the fax, and a link for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9410,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4106\/revisions\/9410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}