Posted on 11/30/2019 8:20:31 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Every Democratic presidential candidate that remains in the race is now on record saying they support taxpayer-funded abortion at the federal level.
In a New York Times survey, the results of which were released Monday, the newspaper reached out to every Democratic candidate for president about their views on abortion, and published their responses to a set of questions about specific policies.
All but five of them completed a survey where they were asked to elaborate further on their views. For those who did not respond, the paper determined their stances on the issue from other publicly available sources, such as interviews, debates and forums, and the candidate's published plans.
All of the candidates are now on record saying "Yes" when asked if they would "codify Roe v. Wade" and "repeal the Hyde amendment," the legislative provision first instituted in 1976 that forbids the use of federal funds through Medicaid or other government entities to pay for abortions. For decades the amendment had notable bipartisan support.
Every candidate surveyed said they would preserve government funding for Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest abortion provider.
Nearly all also responded affirmatively that they would “ban abstinence-only sex education.” A majority said they would force private insurers to cover abortions as part of their plans.
U.S. Senator Cory Booker, D-N.J., went so far as to say that he would create a White House Office of Reproductive Freedom "charged with coordinating and affirmatively advancing abortion rights and access to reproductive health care across my administration."
Asked to respond to whether abortion should be "safe, legal, and rare," — a phrase that was first used by former President Bill Clinton and affirmed by other Democrats — he said: "I believe that abortion is health care."
Other candidates readily noted abortion should be safe and legal, but did not say one way or the other about whether it should be rare.
Candidates were also asked about whether they would repeal a 1973 provision passed by the U.S. Congress in the wake of the Roe v. Wade decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, called the Helms amendment, limiting the use of U.S. foreign assistance dollars for abortion. Most have said they are in favor of scrapping it. Former Vice President Joe Biden gave no answer on that question and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard's, D-Hawaii, position was noted as unclear.
Gabbard's position was also unclear on what is called the "global gag rule" which is known as The Mexico City policy — reinstituted and expanded under President Donald Trump — which blocks federal funding for nongovernmental organizations that provide abortion counseling or referrals overseas. All the other candidates supported scrapping it.
The survey formally marks the considerable shift in posture toward the abortion issue in the U.S., further entrenching the approach Democrats took in 2016, as fewer and fewer pro-life members of the Democratic Party remain visible, and tolerance for dissenting views on the issue disappear.
At present, the Democratic candidates who are still in the 2020 race for presidency include: Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado; former vice president Joe Biden; Sen. Corey Booker of New Jersey; Montana Gov. Steve Bullock; Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana; former HUD Secretary Julián Castro; former Rep. John Delaney of Maryland; Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii; Sen. Kamala Harris of California; Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota; Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont; former Pennsylvania Rep. Joe Sestak; businessman and philanthropist Tom Steyer; Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts; author Marianne Williamson; and entrepreneur and attorney Andrew Yang.
Earlier this month, former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg both entered the race. Both men have records in favor of abortion rights.
There’s the real problem (besides those opposed to abortion). Using tax dollars to fund an optional operation because someone had an “oops” moment is not our problem. Let them pay the $500 or whatever it takes so they are more careful next time.
Why is being not responsible our problem. Now if it the woman was raped I can see how we as a society would help her financially but not for an elective procedure to “fix” what she caused in the first place. Make the sperm donor pay half. It does take two to Tango.
The abortion itself is a separate and far more complex debate. This is strictly about taxpayer money being used unwisely.
The issue is “murder”....There is no other word.
I could never even figure out if the Obamacare exchange insurance covers abortions.
The democrat party is committed to forcing us to pay for abortion, sex-”change” operations, aids care, and euthanasia whether we like it or not. That’s one of their reasons for nationalized healthcare.
This is why Demonicrats are lying murdering traitors to the United States of America.
I placed into my photos the one were the ready to be born baby is being injected with a syringe. Breaks my heart looking at and realizing that this disgusting stuff is happening. Pray everyday for the scourge of the killing of these innocent defenseless human being’s will end. Praise be to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!
EUGENCIST’S puppets ALERT!
C’mon men it’s in your hands. Use it wisely. Don’t allow your seed to go into an idiot/monster. Do not get to the point where a eugenicist’s puppet will slaughter your daughter or son. Think with your big head. Thanks.
I tried dad
I tried real hard
I wanted to make it so much.
I know you did, son
Sorry
Are there free ultrasounds on slaughter your daughter days at Preplanned Extermination facilities?
You cannot be a Democrat and a Christian.
I try to imagine a Democrat standing before God at his/her time of judgement, and trying to justify his/her life and the choices made.
I think the attempt at justification will go something like this: “ Yes Lord, I supported child-murder, sexual degeneracy, the irreversible mutilation of confused children, and used violence against those who disagreed with those stances, but in my defense Lord, those politicians promised to steal other people’s stuff and give it to me!”
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Patriots are reminded that, in stark contrast to the rights that the Founding States expressly protected in the Bill of Rights and other rights amendments to the Constitution, the states have never amended the Constitution to expressly protect murdering unborn children as a right.
In other words, pro-abortion activist justices legislated from the bench the politically correct “right” to have an abortion.
Corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification career federal lawmakers then began using the phony “right” to have an abortion to keep themselves in power. They did so by exploiting low-information voters, effectively buying their votes with constitutionally indefensible campaign promises to provide abortion funding, such voters evidently not understanding that such funding is unconstitutional.
Remember in November 2020!
MAGA! Now KAG! (Keep America Great!)
Regarding unconstitutional federal taxes…
"The “Holy Grail” of organized crime is to control government power to tax." —me
"The 16th Amendment effectively repealed the involuntary servitude aspect of the 13th Amendment imo, evidenced by unconstitutional federal taxes." —me
"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.
"13th Amendment, Section 1:
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude [emphasis added], except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
"16th Amendment:
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."
"The constitutionally undefined political parties are basically rival, corrupt voter unions, “union dues” paid by means of unconstitutional federal taxes. Belonging to a political party means that you are a subject, not a member.” —me
"Patriots need to support PDJT in demanding that Congress moves "April 15" tax day to the day before election day." —me
"The smart crooks long ago figured out that getting themselves elected to federal office to make unconstitutional tax laws to fill their pockets is a much easier way to make a living than robbing banks." —me
"Federal career lawmakers probably laugh all the way to the bank to deposit bribes for putting loopholes for the rich and corporations in tax appropriations laws, Congress actually not having the express constitutional authority to make most appropriations laws where domestic policy is concerned. Such laws are based on stolen state powers and uniquely associated stolen state revenues." —me
The answer as to why to make taxpayers pay is they intend to make all working Americans complicit in the evil. The only way out is to stop working and stop having to pay taxes. This I did 6 years ago.
The Democratic Party is pure evil
Abortion is pure evil and murder
Teaching children licentiousness is pure evil
Teaching children immorality is pure evil
Teaching children to be confused about their sex is pure evil
My question is : what else can a democratic party do to prove that it is the party of pure evil?
It just hit me. Just like Mark Crutcher said, opposing abortion laws that if passed, you could still say “and THEN, we kill the baby”.
Getting exercised about “taxpayer funded” abortions is a little like that.
Are you outraged over abortion or just “paying for it”?
You shot and killed my child! AND you got blood on the carpet!
Reminds me of the time my mother attempted suicide (carbon monoxide poisoning).
I arrived at the same time as the ambulance. My father had dragged her out of the car and she was lying in the driveway.
She looked DEAD! The ambulance guys grabbed her and strapped her on the stretcher. My father stopped them and made them unstrap her so he could retrieve his “Army blanket”.
He said, and I quote, “If it goes with them to the hospital, I’ll never get it back”
In case you are wondering... my mother survived, I won’t say “recovered”. She eventually died of cancer (her third time)
My father died just a few years ago. He is currently and for all eternity BURNING IN HELL!
Romans 12:19 NIV
...“Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”
The Democrat Party is the party of death!
Any vote for any Democrat is a vote against America!
AND, a vote against LIFE!
Beat me to it. It isn’t the government’s business or the taxpayers’ responsibility to foot the bill because someone can’t keep their knees together or wear a raincoat.
Have the candidates answer the following question: Do you believe that:
a) no black children should be killed,
b) half of all black children should be killed, or
c) all black children should be killed.
A democrat will typically answer a). But their support for option b) is no secret. If they thought that a substantial portion of the black population might support Republicans the answer would be c).
Good questions. Who could ask them? They could also ask how America’s robed mullahs discovered a “penumbra”? Thanks for asking the questions. Great post in a great thread. Life BUMP!
All democratic candidates back tax payer funded abortions because all democratic candidates are Ghoulish, Baby-killing immoral slobs. Remember this on election day.
But when it comes to their core moral values of abortion, sodomy, and gender bending, there can be no deviation among party regulars.
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