City Tax Dollars Are Paying For More Abortions, and More Unborn Kids Are Dying From It.
There is no doubt that Baltimore City Government is paying to increase the number of unborn children killed in the City each year
At the Baltimore Abortion Fund (BAF), a non-profit that helps people seeking abortions in Baltimore City and Maryland, they have the numbers to prove it.
Since the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade last year, the decision that guaranteed the constitutional right to an abortion, BAF has served an additional 50% of patients seeking abortion care than in the year before the court’s decision. From June 2022 through June 2023, the non-profit assisted 1,621 clients, up from 1,150 in the year before.
In part, leadership at BAF said they were able to serve those clients because of funding that has come in through grants like Baltimore City’s Abortion Protection Fund. Applications are now open again for those funds for Baltimore City-based abortion care providers. This round caps out at $30,000 for providers. Last year the city gave out awards of up to $50,000 to five organizations. The Abortion Protection Fund is run through the Baltimore Civic Fund, comprised of taxpayer and private funds, to manage the public-private partnerships between city programs and nonprofits.
In a news release announcing the funds last week, Mayor Brandon Scott wrote that Baltimore City would always “stand in strong support of comprehensive reproductive health care.” Scott, a Democrat, is up for re-election in 2024. In June 2022, the Baltimore City Council created the Abortion Protection Fund and designated the city as an “abortion rights protection jurisdiction” via a resolution.
“We’re really grateful that the city of Baltimore recognizes that abortion access is an ongoing public health crisis and is committed to… funding to be able to help organizations like ours be able to address the needs of people seeking abortions in Maryland,” said Lynn McCann-Yeh, the co-director of Baltimore Abortion Fund, who says that BAF will be applying for the current round of grant money although she admits that with the amount of work in front of the organization, it will likely go very quickly.
If that does not make you sick, I don’t know what will.
Maryland in general, and Baltimore City in particular, is already in a crisis over the number of violent deaths suffered by youth. But almost 500 children in Baltimore have already been killed by just this one provider thanks to a direct grant from the Baltimore City government. How many unborn children have the other providers receiving taxpayer dollars from the City also killed?
It is madness that we live in a society that thinks taking money from taxpayers and spending it on killing children is a good thing. But Baltimore City has been replete with one-party madness and pro-abortion zealotry for sixty years…