{"id":938,"date":"2021-01-27T22:13:17","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T03:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandc.com\/?p=938"},"modified":"2021-01-27T22:13:17","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T03:13:17","slug":"200-members-of-congress-stand-against-attempt-to-force-taxpayers-to-fund-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dandc.com\/?p=938","title":{"rendered":"200 members of Congress stand against attempt to force taxpayers to fund abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"

via Live Action News<\/a> January 27, 2021 at 04:34PM<\/p>\n

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This week, 200 Republicans in Congress pledged to stand in support of the Hyde Amendment<\/a> \u2014 which prevents federal taxpayer funding of abortion through government programs such as Medicaid\u00a0\u2014 as President Joe Biden works with abortion supporters in Congress to end the nearly five-decade-long rider.<\/p>\n

\u201cConservative Republicans are sending a strong statement to congressional leaders: We will not stand idle as radical Democrats work to end the ban on taxpayer-funded abortions,\u201d Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) told the Daily Caller News Foundation<\/a>. \u201cI pray this show of solidarity will save the Hyde Amendment and save thousands of innocent lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

Banks sent a letter Tuesday to congressional leaders that pledged to oppose any legislation that would either eliminate or weaken the Hyde Amendment. That letter describes the push to end the Hyde Amendment as \u201cpro-abortion crusade.\u201d<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Three things America stands to lose with taxpayer-funded abortion<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Hyde Amendment has saved an estimated\u00a02.4 million lives<\/a> from abortion and if it is eliminated, an estimated 60,000 more<\/em> children will be killed by the abortion industry each year in the United States. While opponents of the amendment have labeled it \u201cracist,\u201d claiming that many Black women depend on Medicaid for health care, supporters say allowing the government to pay for the abortions of underprivileged and minority women will pressure women to abort when they otherwise would not consider it.<\/p>\n

\u201c[W]omen are coerced into having abortions by their parents, by their partners, by their employers, and by the abortion industry workers, staff, and doctors,\u201d Christina Bennett, communications director for Family Institute of Connecticut, explained<\/a> in an interview with Live Action News. \u201cAnd so when you make abortion free [of cost to the client], you\u2019re adding to that encouragement. You\u2019re encouraging abortion when you make it free because, just in general, that\u2019s a sales tactic, making something free. If something is free you\u2019re going to consider it regardless of what it is. If someone says, \u2018Do you want this? It\u2019s free.\u201d You\u2019re going to think, \u2018Do I want this?\u2019 So, for women who are already vulnerable, already under pressure to abort, it becomes this enticement.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Hyde Amendment preventing taxpayer funding of abortion has long had bipartisan support, with every president since 1976 signing the appropriations bill with the inclusion of the Hyde Amendment. Up until June 2019, Biden also supported<\/a> the Hyde Amendment until Planned Parenthood and other pro-abortion groups pressured him into changing his position. Within 24 hours, he announced that he no longer supported Hyde.<\/p>\n

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via Live Action News January 27, 2021 at 04:34PM This week, 200 Republicans in Congress pledged to stand in support of the Hyde Amendment \u2014 which prevents federal taxpayer funding of abortion through government programs such as Medicaid\u00a0\u2014 as President Joe Biden works with abortion supporters in Congress to end the nearly five-decade-long rider. \u201cConservative […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[46,45],"class_list":["post-938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-feedly","tag-ifttt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":11,"label":"News"}],"post_tag":[{"value":46,"label":"Feedly"},{"value":45,"label":"IFTTT"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"Darren","author_link":"http:\/\/www.dandc.com\/?author=1"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":11,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":11,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":88,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":11,"category_count":88,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":46,"name":"Feedly","slug":"feedly","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":46,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":68,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":45,"name":"IFTTT","slug":"ifttt","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":45,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":68,"filter":"raw"}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7GQ5E-f8","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":641,"url":"http:\/\/www.dandc.com\/?p=641","url_meta":{"origin":938,"position":0},"title":"Virginia\u2019s 2017 Governor\u2019s Race: Where do the Candidates stand on Life?","author":"Darren","date":"October 23, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"via NRL News Today October 20, 2017 at 09:59AMBy Karen Cross, National Right to Life Political Director On November 7, Virginians will decide whether they will vote for a governor who will protect unborn children in the Commonwealth, or whether they will vote for a candidate who supports abortion on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "News"","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"http:\/\/www.dandc.com\/?cat=11"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/ift.tt\/2xZaXqH","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":869,"url":"http:\/\/www.dandc.com\/?p=869","url_meta":{"origin":938,"position":1},"title":"\u2018The loss\u2026 is staggering\u2019: Pro-life members of Congress remember 47th anniversary of Roe","author":"Darren","date":"January 28, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"via Live Action News January 21, 2020 at 09:52AMLast week, Rep. 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