Rep. Rosa DeLauro
Posted on 09/02/2020 10:05:47 AM PDT by ebb tide
WASHINGTON (ChurchMilitant.com) - The Hyde Amendment will become history if House Speaker Nancy Pelosi makes good on her threats.
The Los Angeles Times reported on Friday that Pelosi, the highest-ranking anti-Catholic in Congress, told House Democrats she's planning to defund the Hyde Amendment in 2021. This would force taxpayers to fund U.S. abortions.
The Times notes this is a change of direction for today's Democrats:
The plan to oppose the restriction on government money reflects the dramatic and widespread reversal of opinion on the subject that Democrats have undergone in the last five years. What was once viewed as an acceptable compromise is now widely seen among Democrats as a prime example of systemic racism that unfairly hurts poor women and women of color by banning abortion in most cases for Medicaid patients.
The Hyde Amendment, which has been law since 1976, is named after the late former congressman Henry Hyde who introduced the measure. Implemented three years after Roe v. Wade, the amendment bans federal taxpayer money from funding abortions in the United States. This is distinguished from the Helms Amendment, which bans federal funding of abortions internationally.
Rep. Rosa DeLauro
The Los Angeles Times reported that Pelosi had told some House Democrats in private that all House spending bills crafted in 2021 will exclude the Hyde Amendment. Pelosi's anticipating the House of Representatives will maintain its Democrat majority in November's election. Current polls point in this direction, but political observers know anything can happen between now and election day.
Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), who leads the subcommittee that funds federal health programs, considered removing the ban from a spending bill this year. It was judged as futile, however, since Republicans hold both the Senate and the White House.
One major Democrat who changed his position on the Hyde Amendment under pressure is Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. Biden supported the measure through his Senate career all the way up until he began his official 2020 quest for the presidency. He apparently caved owing to the shift in the attitude of his Party of Death. In June 2019, during his presidential campaign (and amid intense pressure from the progressive Left) Biden reversed his position.
One major Democrat who changed his position on the Hyde Amendment under pressure is Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.Tweet
While many House Democrats are elated at the prospect of dropping the Hyde Amendment, the American Catholic bishops are pushing back against the movement to fund abortion. The head of the U.S. bishops' pro-life committee, Abp. Joseph Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas, communicated to the Catholic News Agency his dismay that the amendment was in danger.
Noting the broad consensus Hyde has consistently had in Congress, Naumann added, "It's very disappointing to see the extremism now that's attacking what most Americans would consider a very important principle."
He emphasized, "When you're destroying a human life, this isn't health care."
Hyde, a Catholic, was a 16-term Republican congressman from Illinois. He is known for his continuous pro-life presence in Congress from the 1970s till the 21st century. A quote of his has inspired pro-lifers for decades:
When the time comes, as it surely will, when we face that awesome moment, the final judgment, I've often thought, as Fulton Sheen wrote, that it is a terrible moment of loneliness. You have no advocates, you are there alone standing before God — and a terror will rip your soul like nothing you can imagine. But I really think that those in the pro-life movement will not be alone. I think there will be a chorus of voices that have never been heard in this world but are heard beautifully and clearly in the next world — and they will plead for everyone who has been in this movement. They will say to God, "Spare him, because he loved us!"
Democrats, in recent years, have been trying to force U.S. taxpayers to pay for other people's abortions. The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), covers the cost for millions of women who kill their prenatal babies. Lawmakers are thus violating the consciences of pro-life businesses by forcing them to also pay for insurance plans that include contraceptive and abortifacient drugs.
Drew Hammill and Nancy Pelosi
The birth control mandate in the Affordable Care Act was challenged by the Little Sisters of the Poor, eventually landing it in the U.S. Supreme Court. On July 8, in Little Sisters of the Poor v. Pennsylvania, the high court struck down the mandate for those with moral and religious objections. This was a major victory for the Trump administration and the many organizations run by people who consider paying for contraception and abortion as cooperation with moral evil.
According to a 2016 report by the Charlotte Lozier Institute, which is affiliated with the pro-life group Susan B. Anthony List, "the best research indicates that the Hyde Amendment has saved over two million unborn children" since the policy was first enacted in 1976.
Studies show abortions multiply when others pay for them. The Guttmacher Institute, for instance, found that in states where tax dollars pay for the abortions of Medicaid recipients, the abortion rate among those recipients is 3.9 times higher than that of nonrecipients.
A spokesman for Pelosi, Drew Hammill, was tight-lipped when asked about Democrats dropping Hyde. Queried about the prospects of it happening next year, he said: "The House will work its will."
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Nancy’s hair looks real nice.
It’s “repeal” the Hyde amendment.
Not “defund” it.
Morons.
Democrats must be destroyed.
Aw, give Nancy a break. It must be hard to have your tits sag below your belly button.
The Hyde Amendment is a fig leaf anyway.
Planned Parenthood gets millions in Federal money every year.
Killing the Hyde Amendment could ignite a firestorm against Democrats at the voting both.
We can hope can’t we?
Pure evil. Nanzi continues to believe she is Catholic.
Nancy’s worried about her hide now?
I guess her hair is OK.
I recognize purple-haired Rep. Rosa DeLauro from the Star Wars bar scene.
Rosa DeLauro is from my old district in Connecticut (New Haven area). She looked like that 25 years ago, too. She had the audacity to put her First Communion pictures in her TV ads then. She declined to take the name of her husband, Democrat pollster Stanley Greenberg.
Nancy, at 81 you are at hells doorstep. You better repent now.
For which her husband's family is eternally grateful.
Here’s my famous “often repeated that I always use with younger folks or people that don’t understand politics to define the Republican and Democratic parties
The republican party wants babies to be born loved and cared for and adopted if the Mommy can take care of the baby
The Democratic Party wants babies to be murdered and chopped up and their little baby body parts sold for as much profit as possible for the murderers
There’s your two political parties
Now which party do you want to be a part of Johnny?
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
The Hyde Amendment is deceiving imo.
More specifically, patriots are reminded that the states have never expressly constitutionally given the corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification federal government the specific power to tax and spend for abortion purposes.
What’s going on with unconstitutional abortion funding is that career lawmakers promise such unconstitutional funding every campaign year to win votes from low-information citizens to get reelected.
Send "Orange Man Bad" federal and state government desperate Democrats home in November!
Supporting PDJT with a new patriot Congress and state government leaders that will promise to fully support his already excellent work for MAGA and stopping SARS-CoV-2 will effectively give fast-working Trump a "third term" in office imo.
I don’t see any problem with voting Republican ticket.
Insights welcome.
“Nancy doesn’t believe.”
That makes sense.
Why hasn’t the Catholic Church excommunicated her?
It would certainly set a nice example.
“She pretends to believe and pretends to be Catholic. No religion is going to stand in her way to kill as many unborn babies (and even born-alive children).”
It’s so true.We saw her speaking on the tele whilst she was proclaiming to pray for something or someone.
I said this woman has not prayed earnestly for at least 50 years.My daughter’s boyfriend looked shocked. But he’s cool.
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