James M. Jeffords: “I regret that, again, this year the conference report dictates to the city how it will spend its own funds on…”

“I regret that, again, this year the conference report dictates to the city how it will spend its own funds on controversial social issues. The conference report continues current law on subjects of both abortion and the District's domestic partners legislation. Unlike the Senate-passed appropriations bill, the conference report provides that no funds, Federal or local, may be used to fund abortion except in the case of rape, incest or when the life of the mother would be endangered. Likewise, no funds may be used to implement the domestic partners legislation adopted by the District 4 years ago.”