Biden’s Proposed Budget Lifts Ban on Federal Funding of Abortions

The Epoch Times

President Joe Biden’s $6 trillion budget proposal for 2022 notably excludes the Hyde Amendment, a law that has for decades blocked federal funding for abortions under Medicaid, unless the unwanted pregnancy endangers the mother’s life or was the result of incest or rape.

Before the Hyde Amendment took effect in 1980, an estimated 300,000 abortions were performed each year using taxpayer funds. Since the amendment is a “rider” to the annual appropriations bill and not permanent law, it must be renewed by Congress each year, giving lawmakers the opportunity to modify its language or do away with it entirely.

Republicans have unsuccessfully sought to make the ban permanent, while Democrats have tried to scrap the prohibition. Biden’s decision to exclude the amendment from his budget proposal sets up a possible fight in Congress, with Republicans likely to argue for its inclusion.

“It breaks with decades of settled precedent by calling for direct taxpayer-funded abortion,” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Friday, commenting on Biden’s move.

Groups advocating for easier access to abortion hailed the exclusion of the Hyde Amendment, while pro-life groups condemned it.

“For more than four decades, the Hyde family of pro-life policies has kept American taxpayers out of the abortion business, with the Hyde Amendment itself saving nearly 2.5 million lives,” said Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of pro-life group Susan B. Anthony List, in a statement. “The Biden budget throws that longstanding, bipartisan consensus out the window to fulfill a campaign promise to the radical abortion lobby.”

“The majority of Americans remain opposed to taxpayer-funded abortion,” she added. “We urge our congressional allies to be fearless in fighting to preserve the common-ground Hyde principle and to reject any budget that omits vital pro-life protections.”

BY TOM OZIMEK

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