WASHINGTON, D.C., Jan. 24, 2017—The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission announced the deployment of the organization’s first national online advertising campaign today aimed at building support across the nation for the effort to defund Planned Parenthood, with a particular focus on the Fiscal Year 2017 congressional budget.
The effort includes a digital petition that will enable the ERLC to deliver a final document with signatures from Americans supporting the initiative to the Office of the Speaker of the House and the Office of the Senate Majority Leader.
Russell Moore, president of the ERLC, commented on the campaign.
“For years, many of us have called on government leaders to see to it that no taxpayer funds, of any kind, go to Planned Parenthood,” said Moore. “The last two years alone have amply demonstrated that the organization is engaged in some of the most ghoulish forms of for-profit human trafficking in our culture. No cent of public funding should support that. The President and Congress should act quickly to end Planned Parenthood's subsidies, so that taxpayer money can support institutions that promote and care for life, instead of exploiting it.”
In addition to mobilizing pro-life supporters across the country and the petition, the ERLC also plans to equip churches with pro-life resources, publish relevant content regarding the pro-life movement, visit Capitol Hill offices about the importance of promoting life and partner with Focus on the Family to host the second annual Evangelicals for Life event, January 26-28, in Washington, D.C.
The digital petition may be viewed here.
