Posted on 10/01/2016 2:40:41 PM PDT by Kaslin
Forty-three years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled abortion to be a constitutional right. Three years later, Illinois Republican Rep. Henry Hyde pushed Congress into banning almost all federal funds from being used for abortions.
That ban, an annual budget rider known as the Hyde Amendment, has saved more than two million children from death in the womb, according to a new report from Charlotte Lozier Institute Associate Scholar Dr. Michael New.
Naturally, Democrats want it gone. From my article at The Stream:
The Democratic Party’s platform promises to repeal of the Amendment because it “impede[s] a woman’s access to abortion,” as does party presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. Vice-Presidential nominee Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia has said he will subordinate his support for Hyde to Clinton’s agenda against it if their ticket wins in November.
The insanity here is pretty deep:
Likewise, the head of a Texas-based abortion group said in the press release that “Hyde hurts our clients and their families because it forces them to pay out of pocket for a procedure that should be recognized by our government as not only a basic human right, but a basic form of medical care that Texans of all socioeconomic backgrounds depend on.”
Any rational person knows that targeting an innocent human being for slaughter is immoral. Donald Trump has vowed to make Hyde permanent law, though as a #NeverTrump hold-out I’m less than optimistic he’ll follow through.
New told me he’s confident that Republicans will hold onto Hyde – it’s a law with broad public support – though if Democrats take the Senate and hold the White House all bets may be off as the butcher party will probably shut down the government just to overturn Hyde.
In statements issued yesterday, two leading House GOPers said they’ll hold tight to Hyde.
From Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI):
“No American taxpayer should be forced to pay for abortions. The Hyde Amendment has been the cornerstone of protecting conscience for 40 years and is responsible for saving more than 2 million American lives. Make no mistake: The Hyde Amendment will remain central in our fight for life until the day Roe v. Wade is overturned entirely.”
And House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA),who vowed to “continue to support the Hyde Amendment”:
“Thanks to the passage of the Hyde Amendment, millions of children have been saved from the horrors of abortion. In fact, recent estimates find that over 2 million people have been saved by theHyde Amendment. Thanks to the efforts of Chairman Hyde, the gift of life has been given to so many who did not have a voice.
“When the Hyde Amendment was originally passed, both the House and Senate were composed overwhelmingly of Democratic Members. Forty years later, the Hyde Amendment has been renewed each appropriations cycle with few changes, supported by Congresses controlled by both parties, and Presidents from both parties.
As I noted in my Stream piece, the Hyde Amendment is imperfect – it allows federal funding in limited circumstances, and it has no effect on the abortion-inducing drugs and devices Planned Parenthood gets from the federal Title X program. Other sources of funding are either untouched or so convoluted even the Government Accountability Office couldn’t figure out whether the money was coming from the feds or states.
But more than two million people were born thanks to Henry Hyde. That’s got to mean something.
Virtually every Democrat policy is an effort to embrace a culture of Death.
The Democrats have gone so far left on abortion, I don’t see how any pro-life person can support them, even those who are liberal on other issues.
How old are they-the oldest. A good visual prop.
You said it.
Democrats always prefer killing babies. Go figure. Baby lives matter!
I am not sure the Hyde amendment prevents any abortuary from using federal funds for abortion. Those who run the abortuaries have been known to flout the law—why wouldn’t they cook their books to make it look like money they take for abortion is spent on something else?
Also, that argument that abortion is “basic health care” is an insult to intelligence. Abortion has as much to do with health care as painting one’s fingernails. There is absolutely no reason or justification to steal money from taxpayers to pay for unscrupulous women to have the luxury of having unprotected sex when they have every intention of murdering the resulting child.
It does not now, unless it is made into a permanent law, which it should be.
The Hyde Amendment does not block access to “health care.” It merely keeps the babykillers’ greedy paws off taxpayer $$$$$$.
"Forty-three years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled abortion to be a constitutional right."
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Patriots wake up !
Regardless what the post-17th Amendment ratification, state sovereignty-ignoring justices who wrongly decided Roe v. Wade against the states wanted everybody to think about the so-called “constitutional right” to have an abortion, please consider the following.
It remains that the states have never amended the Constitution to expressly protect the politically correct “right” to have an abortion, such rights evidenced by the specific rights that the Founding States enumerated into the Bill of Rights, the states also never expressly constitutionally giving the feds the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for abortion purposes, such powers evidenced to an extent by the the voting rights amendments (15, 19, 24, 26) for example.
In fact, a previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified not only that powers that the states haven’t expressly constitutionally delegated to the feds are prohibited to the feds, but also that Congress is prohibited from appropriating taxes in the name of state power issues.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
What’s going on is that corrupt federal politicians are exploiting low-information women voters in the folloing way. Such politicians are using the 19th Amendment, in conjunction with 17A, to promise such women abortion funding to win their votes since such women have evidently never been taught about the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers.
Remember in November !
Patriots need to support Trump / Pence by also electing a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will not only work within its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers to support Trump’s vision for making America great again for everybody, but will also put a stop to unconstitutonal federal taxes and unconstitutional federal inteference in state affairs as evidenced by federal regulation and funding of abortions.
Note that such a Congress will also probably be willing to fire state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices.
..... If Hillary becomes President ... The Democrats will be able to do whatever the heck they want and they will!!!
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I have read articles that say that many (most?) democrats/liberals, even those who favor some abortions, are appalled by some of the practices that the agitators fight for (selling organs, partial birth abortion, etc.) But they are too afraid to speak up.
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