Posted on 03/23/2020 5:54:38 PM PDT by Morgana
For the second time in as many weeks, Speaker Nancy Pelosi is attempting to exploit the coronavirus crisis to push her abortion agenda on the American people.
During the development of the first stimulus bill to tackle the coronavirus situation, White House officials caught Pelosi trying to force Americans to fund abortions because she put funding in the bill under a section of HHS where the provisions of the Hyde Amendment would not apply.
Now, Pelosi is trying to include funding for the Planned Parenthood abortion company in the bill to provide economic relief for small businesses, even though Planned Parenthood is a profitable abortion corporation that technically is a nonprofit. As The Hill reports, Pelosi wanted to include Planned Parenthood in the mix with small businesses so it could get taxpayer dollars over the objections of pro-life Americans.
A Democratic aide said that the small business provision was drafted to exclude non-profits who receive Medicaid from being eligible for Small Business Administration assistance offered under the bill. That, according to the aide, would impact Planned Parenthood but also community health centers, rape crisis centers and disability service providers.
As Breitbart News reports, this is one of many issues that is causing Republicans and Democrats to fail to reach an agreement on the small business relief bill.
On the first bill, the Senate ultimately passed a clean bill to provide funding to combat the coronavirus that contains language preventing the funds from being used to pay for abortions.
Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the national pro-life group Susan B. Anthony List, told LifeNews she is glad the Senate bill is abortion free.
Congress did right by the American people by successfully applying the Hyde Amendment to funds in the coronavirus supplemental bill. This is vital to continue longstanding precedent that health-related funds are always life-affirming. Americans should not have to worry about whether or not emergency funds related to a legitimate health crisis could be ill-used for abortion-related purposes. We are thankful to Congress for working in a bipartisan fashion to pass this legislation that preserves Hyde protections. We commend President Trump and his administration for their unwavering leadership and insistence on Hyde protections. In this time of uncertainty, we will continue to work diligently to defend the lives of the unborn.
After her version of the legislation was unveiled, pro-life advocates and White House officials realized Pelosis measure authorized abortion funding because it funded anti-coronavirus activities in such a way that the funding came from portions of HHS that are not covered by the Hyde Amendment.
As The Daily Caller reported last week before the abortion funding was eliminated:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sought to include a potential way to guarantee federal funding for abortion into the coronavirus economic stimulus plan, according to multiple senior White House officials.
Speaking to the Daily Caller, those officials alleged that while negotiating the stimulus with U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, Pelosi tried to lobby for several provisions that stalled bipartisan commitment to the effort. One was a mandate for up to $1 billion to reimburse laboratory claims, which White House officials say would set a precedent of health spending without protections outlined in the Hyde Amendment.
A New mandatory funding stream that does not have Hyde protections would be unprecedented, one White House official explained. Under the guise of protecting people, Speaker Pelosi is working to make sure taxpayer dollars are spent covering abortionwhich is not only backwards, but goes against historical norms.
A second White House official referred to the provision as a slush fund and yet another questioned what the Hyde Amendment and abortion have to do with protecting Americans from coronavirus?
Nancy Pelosi has a long history of promoting abortion and her first act after becoming Speaker in 2019 was pushing legislation to use tax money for abortions. So its no surprise she is trying to exploit the Coronavirus pandemic to push abortion funding again.
What a cunning stunt.
“Nancy Pelosi is Once Again Trying to Force Americans to Fund Planned Parenthood”
That ain’t the half of it.
Theyre running out of Adrenachrome
Nancy, keep your blood money and choke on it, you evil bitch.
And some people still believe that we can risk letting democrats control all three branches again sometime in the future rather than doing whatever it takes, up to and including armed revolution, to make sure that can not happen again under any circumstance
Poison pill: every time they try to attach abortion funding to a bill, attach a repeal of 922(o) & NFA.
This is Pelosi the minute after she dies.
Just call it what it is, The Abortion Wing of the DNC.
Nothing but a slush fund for democrat operatives, just like NPR, PBS, and the rest of their little pet projects.
Defund and shutter all of them!
Nancy, you’ve got the bucks. Fund it yourself.
There is a very special place in Hell that is reserved for this wicked, vile, loathsome creature. On this I am certain.
I believe we are slowing changing the hearts of the American people. Still, I wish that witch would simply disappear.
PP gets millions of tax dollars for women’s healthcare.
Pelosi must get a cut of all PP baby parts sales.
Jesus, take her back.
The left wants to continue offering human sacrifices to Satan.
Fwiw, I wrote to President Trump this afternoon & urged him to VETO anything but a CLEAN BILL.
AND
Requested that he go on national TV in Prime Time & explain to the American people WHY he vetoed the bill & ATTACK the LEFTISTS for their attempt to push their PORK-FILLED bill through the Congress.
(It is FILLED with WASTE, FRAUD & NEEDLESS EXPENSE.)
Yours, TMN78247
USA, Retired
to self
Yep!
defund NPR - SHAMELESS BIAS
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