Posted on 07/10/2015 1:17:27 PM PDT by Morgana
On Wednesday, abortion advocates introduced a bill to pay for elective abortions with federal taxpayer funds.
The bill “targets the Hyde Amendment, a 1976 provision that blocks federal money from going to pay for abortions, with exceptions for cases of rape or incest or when a pregnant woman’s life is in danger. Hyde Amendment language is frequently included on spending legislation and is attached to the annual bill paying for Medicaid.”
According to a 2010 statement from the pro-abortion Center for Reproductive Rights, the Hyde Amendment has prevented over a million abortions. Five years have passed since that statement, making the current estimate 1,147,000. In their words, “more than a million women have been denied the ability to make their own decisions.” In English, approximately 1,147,000 Americans are alive today who would be dead if not for the Hyde Amendment. That’s one out of every 280 Americans, roughly a third of a percent of the U.S. population.*
Proposing legislation that essentially tells one out of every 280 Americans that you wish they were dead is not normally a smart political move, particularly in the year before a presidential election. But they think they can get away with it because of the demographics of that third of a percent: all are under the age of 40, a significant number of them are too young to vote, and by definition, all were born into economically disadvantaged households.
All of those factors suggest a population that has limited political power, certainly far more limited than that of the abortion industry. Compare that to the demographics of the 70 co-sponsors of the Hyde Amendment repeal bill: their average age is 61 and their average net worth is $4.3 million.** Only three were conceived after the Hyde Amendment was first passed in 1976. (The Cognitive Dissonance Awards go to Ruben Gallego of Arizona, Joseph P. Kennedy, III of Massachusetts, and Eric Swalwell of California.)
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The bill to repeal the Hyde Amendment will never make it past the pro-life House of Representatives. In fact, the House already passed a polar-opposite bill that would make the Hyde Amendment permanent (instead of an annual rider). The primary purpose of the anti-Hyde bill, from my vantage point, is to provide pro-abortion organizations with a nice talking point for fundraising. Their donors are getting discouraged by right-to-life gains and love the idea of “being on the offensive,” a common theme in the media coverage.
Still, it’s important for us to note their strategy. A project that spits in the face of 1,147,000 young people is pretty brazen.
Henry Hyde was a good man. He also warned us that the free trade agreements could devastate our industries.
Henry Hyde was a good man. He also warned us that the free trade agreements could devastate our industries.
Henry Hyde was a Prince of a man. I’ll never forget him.
Trump in January, 2015—Abortion? “it depends when, it depends when”
Video from 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzGrSYWAkxg
--Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-Calif) at televised Anti-Bush Pro-Abortion March For Women's Lives rally Sunday, April 25,2004.
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