Posted on 03/14/2020 1:03:20 AM PDT by John Semmens
President Trump's hope for bipartisan legislation to combat the coronavirus pandemic was put in doubt when House Democrats tried to include non-pertinent add-on spending to it. A particularly egregious add-on was a provision that would authorize spending federal funds on abortions.
After the US Supreme Court declared that women had a right to abort unwanted babies up to the third trimester in its 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling, Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill) led a bipartisan majority to enact a law barring the use of taxpayer funds to provide abortions. His reasoning was that since many taxpayers considered abortion to be murder, they shouldn't be compelled to finance it.
Since some members of her Party opposed adding this provision to the coronavirus emergency bill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) was unable to garner a enough votes to support passage with language that included the abortion funding. Nevertheless, she still insists that "funding desperately needed abortions must be a critical element of the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. Every child born is a future potential victim of the virus. Parents who want to spare their children from suffering and possibly dying from this dreaded new disease should not be denied this human right just because they can't afford to pay for their own abortions."
"Individuals who have moral objections to abortion have a civic duty to put aside their personal beliefs for the sake of the collective well-being of society," the Speaker asserted. "Under our laws, abortion is not considered murder. For us to continue to tolerate idiosyncratic objections under the pretense of a moral code that has no legal foundation only rewards the inherent selfishness of these deviants. We need to take heed of China's more enlightened approach to religion. There, religious freedom is bounded by the necessity to comply with the moral directives decreed by a government that has placed the good of the whole ahead of the objections of a minority."
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Tucker Carlson just made the point that the coronavirus doesn’t kill babies, so the Democrats added the abortion funding to correct that problem.
That’s gonna leave a mark.
LMAO
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Tucker Carlson said tonight something like the following:
“The Corona virus isn’t killing babies, so the democrats tried to sneak legislation into the bill to correct that.”
Nancy is “The Sneaker of the House”
I can picture Pelousy saying, “the coronavirus isn’t killing children, so we are forced to step in and do that ourselves.”
It makes sense. Aborted babies will not get the Chinese Flu.
Hmm... where’s the satire? All of that sounds like regular news to me LOL.
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