Indiana Right to Life Unhappy with Baron

Mike Fichter, the Executive Director of Indiana Right to Life, isn't exactly happy with Baron's big abortion lie, his recent votes (TWICE!) to send American tax dollars overseas to fund abortions.

In a letter to the New Albany Tribune and the Jeffersonville Evening News, Mr. Fichter slams Baron Hill:

Right to Life leader unhappy with Hill

Rep. Baron Hill’s recent vote to expand taxpayer funding of agencies that promote abortion as a method of family planning in foreign countries is a slap in the face to voters in Indiana’s ninth congressional district who took Rep. Hill at his word when he stated his support for the 95-10 plan, a strategy promoted by Democrats for Life to reduce abortions by 95 percent over the next 10 years. Hill’s promotion of the 95-10 plan took many forms in the weeks leading up to the November 2006 elections, including campaign stops in heavily Catholic areas in the district. Now it is clear that his actions were not due to any convictions about protecting human life, but about getting elected to Congress.

Rep. Hill should now explain to his constituents how using our tax dollars to promote the killing of unborn children in foreign countries will help to reduce abortions. Even the most strident liberal understands that when you throw more money into promoting an activity, more of that activity will occur. This is the worst of the worst when it comes to politics, and its part of the reason why congressional approval ratings are sinking to historic lows.

Rep. Hill stood in small towns across his district in late 2006 and thumped his chest over his stated support of the 95-10 plan. Now we know that giant thumping noise was nothing but hot air.

— Mike Fichter, Executive Director, Indiana Right to Life

As he did the first time around, Baron Hill said one thing in Indiana to get elected.

He then went to Washington and voted the opposite way.

See also: Hill on the Hill.