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CV NEWS FEED // Rep. Chip Roy, R-TX, representing Texas’s 21st Congressional District, has introduced the Protecting Lives on College Campuses Act, aimed at prohibiting universities from using taxpayer dollars to facilitate abortions.
“The American people should not be forced to fund the destruction of innocent life through DIY abortions with their hard-earned tax money to begin with,” Roy said in a Jan. 22 press release. “We especially should not be funding colleges that dole these dangerous pills out to students to use in their dorms without medical supervision.”
The Protecting Lives on College Campuses Act would prevent the allocation of federal funds to any college or university that “hosts or is affiliated with a student-based service site that provides abortion drugs or abortions to students of the institution or to employees of the institution or site, and for other purposes.”
The legislation currently has more than a dozen co-sponsors in the House of Representatives, including Texas Republican lawmakers Dan Crenshaw, TX-2, Randy Weber, TX-14, and Brandon Gill, TX-26.
Roy criticized the abortion industry in his press release, asserting that it prioritizes profits over patient care.
“We need to push back hard against their radical push for abortion anywhere, at any time for any reason, and doing that starts here with the Protecting Lives on College Campuses Act,” he said.
Several pro-life groups, including the American Principles Project, National Pro-Life Alliance, Students for Life Action, and Citizens for Renewing America have voiced support for Roy’s bill.
Terry Schilling, president of the American Principles Project, commended Roy for taking a principled stand for life and family values. He urged Republican lawmakers to back the bill, asserting that taxpayer dollars should not fund an “anti-life, anti-family agenda.”
Wade Miller, the executive director of Citizens for Renewing America, also thanked Roy.
Miller said, “The American taxpayer should not be forced to subsidize institutions of higher education that promote and facilitate the ending of innocent human life.”
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