Mike Fichter, Executive Director of Indiana Right To Life, wrote this letter to the Jeffersonville News-Tribune:

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

Mr. Fichter, thank you for correctly identifying what Mr. Hill was up to when he talked so much about being pro-life. While all of us had hoped he really meant what he said, recent votes point to the disturbing fact that all of it was election propaganda.

FYI: If you want to see a true blue pro-life congressman elected in Indiana's 9th District, click on over to www.wewantmikesodrel.com and sign the online petition encouraging Mike Sodrel to run again.