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Regular Session, 2012
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTI ON NO. 11
BY REPRESENTATIVE HOFFMANN AND SENATORS APPEL, CORTEZ, CROWE,
DONAHUE, ERDEY, JOHNS, KOSTELKA, LONG, MARTINY, MILLS,
PEACOCK, PERRY, RISER, TARVER, THOMPSON, WALSWORTH, WARD,
AND WHITE
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTI ON
To memorialize the United States Congress to take such actions as are necessary to defund
and appropriate no future funding to Planned Parenthood.
WHEREAS, in 2011 the United States risked suspending government services of
necessity for the first time in fifteen years due to the inability of congress to pass a budget
for the fiscal year in which it was operating; and
WHEREAS, the slow and faltering emergence of the United States from the global
economic recession of the late 2000s is regarded as a sign of difficult fiscal circumstances
yet ahead for our nation; and
WHEREAS, Planned Parenthood, an organization which holds itself out to be a
"sexual and reproductive health care provider" and performs abortions at certain of its
clinics, continues to receive federal funding despite the enormous budgetary challenges that
persist for our federal government; and
WHEREAS, Planned Parenthood is the largest provider of abortions in the United
States; and
WHEREAS, while federal law prohibits taxpayer funding of abortions, any federal
funding which goes to Planned Parenthood materially aids the organization in performing
abortions; and
WHEREAS, it is the longstanding policy of this state that an unborn child is a human
being from the time of conception, is a legal person for purposes of the unborn child's right
to life, and is entitled to the right to life from conception under the laws and constitution of
this state; and ENROLLEDHCR NO. 11
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WHEREAS, it is thus in the vital interest of this state that congress defund and
appropriate no future funding to Planned Parenthood on the grounds that continued taxpayer
funding for Planned Parenthood would be fiscally irresponsible, and would defy the
longstanding policy of Louisiana to support the right to life of all unborn children.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby
memorialize the United States Congress to defund and appropriate no future funding to
Planned Parenthood.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
presiding officers of the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Congress of the
United States of America and to each member of the Louisiana congressional delegation.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATI VES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE