On Friday, June 21, five pro-life senators wrote a letter to the chair and vice chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee to “urge the committee to ensure that longstanding, bipartisan pro-life provisions are included as bill text” for fiscal year 2025.
The letter, signed by Sens. Marsha Blackburn, R-TN, Steve Daines, R-MT, Roger Marshall, R-KS, Josh Hawley, R-MO, and Markwayne Mullin, R-OK, reminded the chair of the Committee that the Congress has renewed the Hyde Amendment every year since 1976. The amendment “which ensures taxpayer dollars are not used to fund abortion other than in cases of rape, incest, or when a pregnancy would threaten the life of the mother.”
The letter encouraged the Committee to maintain several other pro-life policies that restrict the use of tax dollars to fund abortions:
The Smith (NJ) Amendment (bans taxpayer dollars from funding abortions for federal employees); The Dornan Amendment (prohibits taxpayer dollars from funding abortions in the District of Columbia); Abortion Funding for Prisoners (restricts taxpayer dollars from funding abortions for federal prisoners); The Helms Amendment (bars taxpayer dollars from funding abortions as foreign assistance – a policy which 67 percent of Americans support); The Siljander Amendment (prohibits taxpayer dollars from funding any lobbying regarding abortion); The Kemp-Kasten Amendment (grants the president the discretion to ban organizations that promote coercive abortion from receiving U.S. funds); The Weldon Amendment (permits health care and insurance providers to opt out of participating in elected abortion procedures based on their deeply held moral or religious beliefs — a policy which 66 percent of Americans support).
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The senators also highlighted the injustice of abortion and the need to protect the unborn, saying that, “A procedure intended to end a human life cannot credibly be considered a form of health care.” They urge the chair and vice chair to “continue this bipartisan work to protect our nation’s most vulnerable – the unborn.”
The letter cites a Gallup review where, in a poll where participants were asked if abortion is murder, 57% agreed and only 36% disagreed. It cited another poll that showed 67% of Americans oppose using tax dollars to fund abortion services abroad.
LifeNews Note: Grace Porto writes for CatholicVote, where this column originally appeared.
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