Posted on 07/31/2020 12:55:35 PM PDT by RightGeek
After the Supreme Court unilaterally struck down state laws regulating abortion in Roe v. Wade (1973), Congress passed two amendments to protect pro-life taxpayers from being forced to finance what they consider to be a form of murder. The Hyde Amendment prevents taxpayer funding for abortions in the U.S. and the Helms Amendment prevents taxpayer funding for abortions overseas. This week, House Democrats filed the “first-ever bill” to repeal the Helms Amendment, calling the policy “deeply rooted in racism.”
“The Helms Amendment is a policy deeply rooted in racism. It imposes our arbitrary and medically unnecessary abortion restrictions on international communities, allowing the United States to control the health care and bodily autonomy of billions Black and brown people around the world,” Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) said in a statement. Schakowsky teamed up with Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), a member of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “Squad,” to introduce the Abortion is Health Care Everywhere Act of 2020.
“Just like the Hyde Amendment, the Helms Amendment puts reproductive and economic freedom out of reach for women of color,” Schakowsky argued. “But enough is enough, and both amendments must fall if we want to realize true health equity and reproductive justice.”
“Abortion care is health care and health care is a fundamental human right. For too long, anti-choice policy, including the Helms Amendment and the Hyde Amendment, has dictated who has access to critical healthcare, economic opportunity and bodily autonomy,” Pressley argued. “We must be consistent in our calls to dismantle racist policies that perpetuate inequities and exacerbate health disparities for Black and brown people here in the United States and around the globe.”
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... and how does this have anything to do with racism?
SPEND YOUR OWN MONEY, NOT MY TAXES FOR YOUR IDEALS!!!
I am an American, and not responsible for the rest of the globe!!!
“Racist, racist, racist, racist, and on, and on, and on they go with what is the tactic, the main tactic of the International Communist Party. Everything according to them is racist to a point beyond the Little Boy crying Wolf.
The word (Racist) actually doesn’t mean a damned thing anymore.
Have they looked in the mirror to see stupid on their forehead?
When is God going to get his fill of the sin in this world.. it makes me ill... what does Heaven think of the new fads on this sick earth.
There is no conscience among these who have thrown it all to the dogs.
If they feel that strongly about it, they can pay for it themselves, out of their own pocket.
We are not responsible for controlling the rest of the world and we should not be paying for it.
Not to mention that money will never fund abortions but just end up lining some corrupt despots pockets.
If it’s for the abortion OF transgendered men ... I’m all for it
If it’d retroactively abort those four, we’d all chip in!
Structural Systemic Insanity has taken over the Democrat Party.
Absolutely NUTS! And since when are we the payroll for all the perverts in the world?
There’s no such person and with what money? We are more than broke.
“Abortion isn’t just “good” for women, but for other “people with uteruses,” as the euphemism goes.”
The Other people with uteruses and the Other people with boobs. I am perplexed.
Because we’re not paying for abortions. We’re providing cash to laundered for God knows what.
The democratic party has become so foul!
BLM/Antifa burns black neighborhoods to the ground in the name of anti-racism, so why not?
So if they are trans men, why are they letting someone put tab P into slot V?
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