LifeNews on the disturbing proposal introduced into the budget of our Nation's capital:

Lawmakers from both political parties are working together to offer an amendment to a Congressional spending bill that includes President Barack Obama's request to fund abortions in the nation's capital. A House committee is expected to vote on the amendment on Tuesday.

As LifeNews.com has repeatedly reported, a House subcommittee pushed forward Obama's budget request to rescind the Dornan amendment, which, for most years since 1988, has prohibited taxpayer funding of abortions in Washington, D.C.

Republican congressman Todd Tiahrt, of Kansas, and Democrat Lincoln Davis, of Tennessee, will offer an amendment to the FY 2010 Financial Services appropriations bill to stop Obama's abortion-funding agenda.

The Tiahrt-Davis amendment would be offered in the full House Appropriations Committee, which is considering the bill before it heads to the full House floor.

More verbal word play, as we've explored in these two recent posts:

Johnson's letter also exposes the accounting sleight of hand that abortion advocates used to make it appear taxpayer funds are not being used to pay for abortions.

"The subcommittee-reported bill contains new language that would allow the city government to pay for abortion on demand with so-called 'local' funds appropriated by Congress," Johnson sayid in the letter provided to LifeNews.com.

He says the taxpayer-funding of abortions allowed in the bill would result in an additional 1,000 abortions in the nation's capital.

What can be done?

Contact members of the Appropriations Committee and ask them to restore the Dornan Amendment to stop tax-funded abortions in DC. Find a list of members, click here.