LifeNews: Since 1980, a small line item in the annual Health and Human Services appropriations bill has passed with little fanfare. Yet in recent months, the so-called Hyde Amendment – which bans federal tax dollars from paying for abortions – has made headlines and received significant attention as Planned Parenthood, NARAL, and pro-abortion politicians have called for its abolishment.
So what is the Hyde Amendment and why is it so vital to protecting the rights of both born and unborn Americans?
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What is the Hyde Amendment?
Originally passed in 1976, three years after the Supreme Court legalized abortion in Roe v. Wade, the Hyde Amendment is named after one of its biggest advocates, the late congressman Henry Hyde. The amendment prohibits federal funding of abortions, and as a rider to the HHS appropriations bill, must be passed each year. There have been various iterations of the amendment’s language over the past 40 years, but the current version includes exceptions that allow Medicaid funds to be used for abortions in cases of rape, incest, or the health of the mother – but all other federal taxpayer funding of abortion is banned. MORE
Watch out for that tongue hole, kid.
Huh, isn’t Obamacare partially subsidized by the gov’mnt?
As usual, there is a rotten liberal smell all over the ‘law’, as they stomp the life blood from America.
Oh foolish me, obamabortions are listed as ‘necessary’ D&Cs. Someday, I need to remember to check my FREEDOM privilege and remember obamaspeak.
EVADING LAWS is to HILLARY
as
GOLF is to OBAMA
Hillary about to have her morning snack!
We ARE paying for abortions. Ever heard of ObamaCare?
Look it up.
When she says “you’re so cute, I could just eat you up” believe her.
So The (Conservative) Republican Party has been running these scams for at least forty years. I guess I’d be surprised, too, (well, you might be surprised – I’d be SHOCKED!) that now, after decades, any of the marks are getting suspicious.
For those of you that don’t have to balance your checkbooks (like those who live to spend “other peoples” money), it works like this: when $500 dollars for an abortion is unacceptable (for government billing), but $20 dollars for an abortion (from whoever) and $480 for psychological counseling is acceptable (for government billing), your take is the same.