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Democrats promise Biden-era abortion showdown over Hyde Amendment
nbcnews ^ | 12/27/2020 | Sahil Kapur

Posted on 12/28/2020 3:40:38 AM PST by xomething

The decades-old measure, named after an Illinois GOP lawmaker, limits the use of federal funds.

WASHINGTON — House Democrats have spent two years passing government funding legislation without picking a fight over abortion, but with President Donald Trump leaving office, party leaders say 2021 will be different.

Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., who is set to chair the powerful House Appropriations Committee, said next year the House will eliminate the so-called Hyde Amendment, a decades-old policy that prohibits federal programs like Medicaid from paying for abortions.

“This is the last year,” DeLauro said at a Dec. 8 hearing about the adverse effects of the Hyde Amendment. “The time has come in this current moment to reckon with the norm, with the status quo.”

“The Hyde Amendment is a discriminatory policy,” she said, arguing that it puts politicians between a woman and her doctor and is particularly harmful to rural and low-income women.

But that is guaranteed to face Republican opposition, Senate Appropriations Chair Richard Shelby, R-Ala., said.

“The Republican caucus would resist it,” Shelby told NBC News. “We've had the Hyde Amendment a long time. And I think it's pretty clearly embedded in the fabric of our legislation. I support the Hyde Amendment.”

The conflicting positions preview a clash over the polarizing issue of abortion next year when the government will have to be funded again.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abortion; biden; prolife; taxes

1 posted on 12/28/2020 3:40:38 AM PST by xomething
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Sounds like they already know who the new Senators from GA are going to be.


2 posted on 12/28/2020 3:42:29 AM PST by DaiHuy (May God save the country, for it is evident the people will not! Millard Fillmore)
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To: xomething

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=rosa+delauro&t=osx&iax=images&ia=images


3 posted on 12/28/2020 3:45:17 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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Government of, by and for the people was another lifetime ago.


4 posted on 12/28/2020 3:48:45 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: DaiHuy
Sounds like they already know who the new Senators from GA are going to be.

More voter fraud?

5 posted on 12/28/2020 4:00:25 AM PST by Mark17 (USAF Retired. Father of a US Air Force commissioned officer, and trained Air Force combat pilot. )
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To: xomething

Thank you Morgana.


6 posted on 12/28/2020 4:00:43 AM PST by JonPreston (Crash the whole thing down)
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To: xomething

The Democrats know that there isn’t one issue that the Republicans will circle the wagons and defend to the death. With a feckless, cowardly Senate and Supreme Court the radical left will pass anything they want.


7 posted on 12/28/2020 4:20:38 AM PST by Russ (I )
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To: DaiHuy

Sounds like they already know who the new Senators from GA are going to be.

The CCP knows.


8 posted on 12/28/2020 4:41:46 AM PST by Flick Lives (#resist)
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To: xomething

DeLauro is loathsome.


9 posted on 12/28/2020 4:41:55 AM PST by sauropod (Cui bono? I will not comply.)
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