Fetch me Muh Fainting Couch!
Posted on 09/17/2016 9:10:34 AM PDT by blueberry12
Donald Trump today has issued a call to make permanent the Hyde Amendment that bans almost all federal taxpayer funding of abortions and is credited with saving the lives of over 1 million Americans from abortion. Trump‘s call comes as Hillary Clinton is campaigning in reversing Hyde and forcing Americans to fund free abortions for women with their tax dollars.
Every year, Congress is forced to fight the battle to protect Americans from being forced to pay for abortions with their tax dollars. Democrats annually fight the pro-life budget provision and hope they can eventually reverse it should they take control of both the White House and Congress.
That has led to pro-life groups calling to the adoption of a permanent law putting Hyde in place long-term and making it more difficult for pro-abortion forces to reverse. Today, Trump announced his support for such a law.
The call for banning taxpayer funding of abortions comes in a new letter from Trump. Trump commits to a new policy: “Making the Hyde Amendment permanent law to protect taxpayers from having to pay for abortions.”
“Hillary Clinton’s unwavering commitment to advancing taxpayer-funded abortion on-demand stands in stark contrast to the commitments I’ve made,” Trump writes, “to advance the rights of unborn children and their mothers when elected president.”
Marjorie Dannenfelser of the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List praised Trump for calling for banning taxpayer funding of abortions.
“Not only has Mr. Trump doubled down on his three existing commitments to the pro-life movement, he has gone a step further in pledging to protect the Hyde Amendment and the conscience rights of millions of pro-life taxpayers. For a candidate to make additional commitments during a general election is almost unheard of,” Dannenfelser said.
The first order of business for Clinton and her friends at the abortion company is to force Americans to pay for abortions with their tax dollars by attempting to overturn the Hyde Amendment, which has protected Americans from funding most all abortions since the late 1970s. Upheld by the Supreme Court, the Hyde Amendment is now a target of abortion advocates who have moved from pro-choice to pro-abortion — forcing Americans not only to accept unlimited abortions before birth but to pay for them.
Earlier this year, campaigning in New Hampshire, Clinton made her support for tax-financed abortions clear.
During the rally, Hillary said abortion and abortion funding should be “defended both in principle and in practice.”
“Any right that requires you to take extra measures to access it is no right at all,” she continued as she listed a number of pro-life measures she opposes. “Not as long as we have laws on the books like the Hyde Amendment making it harder for low income women to exercise their full rights.”
Fetch me Muh Fainting Couch!
Cautiously positive about this...hoping and praying he can actually pull it off but not sure how well one man (even a very rich one) will do against one of the most entrenched leftist interests in American history.
“Any right that requires you to take extra measures to access it is no right at all.”
Dos that apply to the 2nd Amendment?
But all the Cruzies said Trump was pro-abortion? How can this be?
Pray America wakes
When I worked in a liberal infested hole, the subject of their right to have abortion and people like me wanting to take it away was often thrown at me. I would tell them that I realize they have that legal right, but why, since I don’t agree with it, should I be forced to pay for it? They usually agreed that it made sense.
From March 1st of this year. If he's flip-flopped on this, I welcome it but when Congress was trying to get Planned Parenthood removed from the federal budget, Trump was yapping about how wonderful Planned Parenthood was.
The truth will come after he gets elected. We know where Hillary stands.
Trump wasn’t to eliminate the Johnson amendment, which prevents churches & religious organizations from entering politics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson_Amendment
This move alone would do more to help the pro-life cause than anything the Republicans have done in the last 40 years.
Wake up and smell the coffee. The pro-life movement has been played by the GOP. Just as the Democrats make promises to blacks (they have no intention of keeping) to get their vote, the GOP has no intention of keeping their promises to the pro-life movement?
Why? Because if they ever did outlaw abortion, they GOP then would not be able to dangle the “we’ll stop abortion” bait in front of us to get our vote.
We’ve been played—PLAYED—for decades.
No, he said that congress should close down the gummit to stop the funding of abortions.
This can’t be, I remember all the Cruzers telling me that he was Pro-Abortion.
Surely they would only have lied about Carson dropping out of the race, wouldn’t they?
PLUS, isn’t a Republican candidate to ‘move to the center’ before an election?
This can’t be, I remember all the Cruzers telling me that he was Pro-Abortion.
Surely they would only have lied about Carson dropping out of the race, wouldn’t they?
PLUS, isn’t a Republican candidate to ‘move to the center’ before an election?
Read the article at the link I generously provided from the very same source that provided the OP article.
Murder of the innocent is not a right.
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