Biden administration seeks to force U.S. taxpayers to fund abortions by excluding Hyde Amendment from fiscal year 2025 budget released this week.
The move marks the fourth year in a row that President Joe Biden’s Office of Management and Budget has intentionally left out the Hyde Amendment. This provision has been part of federal spending for decades and prevents taxpayers from directly funding abortions through programs like Medicaid. The Republican Party is foil stamping Past attempts to remove the Hyde Amendment from the budget.
Until recently, the Hyde Amendment had significant bipartisan support, including from Mr. Biden himself. In April 1994, then-Sen.biden I have written “Those of us who oppose abortion should not be forced to pay for abortions,” he told one voter.
The Biden administration is now perhaps the most pro-abortion administration in U.S. history. through Executive orders, rulemaking and guidance from unelected government officials, and various legal challenges to implementing abortion-on-demand policies across the country and around the world.
Killing unborn children will also be a top priority of the day for President Joe Biden if he is re-elected, his staff said.This is likely a strategy designed to bash Republicans and appeal to a wide range of women and young people. voters We’re used to 50 years of an abortion “right” invented under a now-defunct law. Roe vs. Wade decision.
Organizations that perpetrate and/or facilitate the killing of unborn children celebrated the absence of the Hyde Amendment in this fiscal year 2025 budget.
Planned Parenting Activity Fund Said In the press release:
In line with past budgets proposed by the Biden-Harris Administration, this budget includes abortion benefits for Black, Latino, Indigenous, LGBTQ+ people, immigrants, and other communities that already face abortion barriers. does not include the racist and discriminatory Hyde Amendment, which unfairly denies the application of Healthcare and economic development.
Nurbese Flint, president of the pro-abortion group All*Above All, welcomed Biden’s removal of the amendment and called on Congress to make it permanent.
“I am pleased that, for the fourth year in a row, the Biden Administration has recommitted to ending the Hyde Amendment by repealing this decades-old policy. It disproportionately impacts black and brown people,” Flint said. Said, addition:
The harm of Hyde is now; dobbs decision. With our fundamental freedoms at stake in the presidential election, Congress must repeal this cruel restriction once and for all, and ensure that no one is denied access to an abortion just because they work to earn a living. We must act urgently. Abortion justice cannot wait.
.@joe biden‘s 2025 budget proposal once again calls for repealing the Hyde Amendment, which has protected unborn children and their mothers for more than 40 years by ensuring that federal tax dollars do not fund elective abortions.
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— SBA ProLife America (@sbaprolife) March 11, 2024
In contrast, a major pro-life organization, Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, slammed This move is a capitulation to the Democratic Party’s “pro-abortion wing.”
“The Biden-Harris administration’s clear priority is to promote unlimited full-term abortions, paid for by taxpayer dollars, even if the baby in the womb is in pain. ” he said. Marjorie Dannenfelser, President of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America.
“…Democrats continue to push more and more abortions while stripping funding from pregnancy centers that serve millions of women each year. Biden’s policies violate the values of the majority of Americans. Not only is it in fundamental conflict with The majority of women seeking help raising their babies Instead of having an abortion,” Dannenfelser continued.
“Since running for president after overturning taxpayer-funded abortions, Biden has lost all resistance to his party’s pro-abortion activists. “Democrats’ continued attacks on Mr. Hyde demonstrate their commitment to abortion more than anything else, as they continue to jettison the deal and push for unrestricted abortion across the country,” she added. “However, our team continues to work tirelessly to achieve our goals. 10 million voters, 4 million of them in person, will expose Democratic extremism at the polls and hold them accountable at the polls. ”
Voted earlier this year by Marist and the Knights of Columbus found A majority of Americans (53 percent) oppose or strongly oppose using tax dollars to pay for abortions.
The Office of Management and Budget did not respond to a request for comment by the time of publication.
Katherine Hamilton is a political reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow her at @thekat_Hamilton.
