Biden Budget Proposes Unlimited Taxpayer-Funding of Elective Abortions for Medicaid Recipients

[excalibur]

Democrats drooling at all the dead minority babies this would mean. IOW, a racist policy.

On Friday, President Biden released a budget that would, if enacted, end the Hyde amendment, an annual budget rider that has prohibited federal Medicaid funding of abortion for more than four decades.


The Hyde amendment has been America’s most effective pro-life public policy. By one estimate, it has saved more than two million human lives from abortion since it was first enacted:

One study by the Guttmacher Institute, a Planned Parenthood offshoot, found that in states that use their own tax dollars to pay for abortions undergone by Medicaid recipients, the abortion rate among Medicaid recipients is 3.9 times the rate among nonrecipients, “while in states that do not permit Medicaid funding for abortions, Medicaid recipients are only 1.6 times as likely as nonrecipients to have abortions.”

The precise number of lives saved by the Hyde amendment is a matter of dispute, but according to a 2016 report by the Charlotte Lozier Institute, an organization affiliated with the pro-life 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.

That’s an average of 50,000 human lives saved from abortion each year.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg acknowledged in a 2009 interview that a major rationale for funding abortions for Medicaid recipients was that it would result in a culling of the poor, though she put it a bit more euphemistically. “Frankly, I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of,” she said. “So that Roewas going to be then set up for Medicaid funding of abortion.”

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Biden budget would kill the Hyde Amendment, America's most effective pro-life public policy. | National Review

On Friday, President Biden released a budget that would, if enacted, end the Hyde amendment.

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[Care4all]

Sorry, that is just a campaign ad, for 2022....

It basically says, if you don't vote for republicans in 2022, then Biden will have enough democrats to pass legislation without the Hyde Amendment attached if they wished.

Saw nothing in article where any democrats had killed it, anywhere?

 

[excalibur]

Sorry, that is just a campaign ad, for 2022....

It basically says, if you don't vote for republicans in 2022, then Biden will have enough democrats to pass legislation without the Hyde Amendment attached if they wished.

Saw nothing in article where any democrats had killed it, anywhere?

It doesn't say what you think it says.

 

[DGS49]

Let's take it a step further. If you are on Medicaid, abortion will be compulsory. "We" are not paying anyone to have babies that "we" will have to support after they are born.

Declining abortion will result in cut-off of all social welfare benefits.