Posted on 10/01/2019 4:35:46 PM PDT by Kaslin
Several 2020 Democrats are renewing their calls for taxpayer-funded abortion. But, in the process, they’re overestimating voters’ support – and underestimating the two million lives saved by the Hyde Amendment.
September 30 marked the 42nd anniversary of the Hyde Amendment. The legislative provision, which is approved annually by Congress, bars federal dollars from directly funding abortion. There are a few exceptions: cases of rape, incest, and saving the life of the mother. But that wasn’t enough for the Democratic presidential candidates who took to Twitter to condemn the provision.
Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts tweeted that it was “time for Hyde to go.”
“I've lived in an America where abortions were illegal,” she warned. “Women still got abortions—but they were dangerous and too often deadly.”
The provision was first passed in 1976, three years after the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision legalized abortion nationwide.
Warren worried that the provision “harms the most vulnerable women by limiting their ability to safely access abortion.”
For her part, Senator Kamala Harris of California remembered “the anniversary of a dark day in our nation’s history.”
“Access to reproductive health care should not be based on how much money people have,” she typed. “We must repeal the Hyde Amendment.” CARTOONS | Lisa Benson View Cartoon
Like Harris, many of the other candidates accused the Hyde Amendment of targeting Americans with lower incomes. To them, the provision wasn’t about protecting Americans’ consciences.
On social media, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont shared a NARAL Pro-Choice America tweet calling for the repeal of the Hyde Amendment.
“If we believe in the constitutional right to abortion, we must ensure all women have that right regardless of income,” Sanders argued. “Medicare for All will cover all reproductive health services, including abortion, and eliminate the Hyde Amendment.”
From New Jersey, Senator Cory Booker tweeted a video of himself attacking the provision at an event.
“43 years ago, the House passed the Hyde Amendment for the first time, denying federal Medicaid coverage of abortion to millions—many of them low-income and people of color,” he wrote. “As president, I will fight to end the assault on reproductive health.”
Julián Castro also chimed in with a personal note.
“The first woman to die because of the Hyde Amendment was named Rosie, just like my mom,” he wrote of a woman who died after obtaining an unsafe illegal abortion. “The Hyde Amendment has hurt too many.”
Congressman Tim Ryan of Ohio also recognized the anniversary, declaring, “it’s time to be BOLD and lift abortion coverage bans once and for all.”
But Democrats may be miscalculating how many Americans support funding abortion – or forcing others to fund it. In June, Slate published a piece with the headline “Abortion Funding Isn’t As Popular As Democrats Think.”
“[I]t’s not true that opposition to the Hyde Amendment has become broadly popular or a consensus position among Democrats,” staff writer William Saletan wrote, before citing polls from Politico/Morning Consult, PRRI, Marist, Politico/Harvard, and YouGov.
“In every poll, a plurality of Americans opposes public funding of abortions,” he stressed, and “In every poll but one, that plurality is a majority.”
These murdering, commie POSs can ALL go take a flying “f” at a slow rolling donut.
We need to get uncivil people out of public office. They are a detriment to the state.
2020 totalitarians DEMAND...
— That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. - Declaration
Horror grips us as we watch you die
All we can do is echo your anguished cries
Stare as all human feelings die
We are leaving, you don’t need us
CSN - Wooden Ships
DEPOPULATE anti-life totalitarians from the body politic. How much damage can they do?
Slavery
When I get govt money to buy a gun every year they can have money for their abortions.
At least my request has an actual constitutional right behind it.
The Left has become quite macabre in their blood lust for killing innocent babies. I am appalled that half of my beloved country has degenerated to several levels lower than pond scum.
“I am appalled that half of my beloved country has degenerated to several levels lower than pond scum.”
I echo your sentiment.
“...“If we believe in the constitutional right to abortion, we must ensure all women have that right regardless of income,”
Well see, its the “if we believe” part of tht is the real problem. E do not believe that because its not there and never was there. Therefore the rest of the junk they spout after that can be thrown into the garbage can.
Dear Dumbles. Your voices have been heard.
NO!
Now stfu.
Right on
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