{"id":204139,"date":"2019-06-08T07:50:50","date_gmt":"2019-06-08T12:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=204139"},"modified":"2019-06-07T19:53:16","modified_gmt":"2019-06-08T00:53:16","slug":"cory-booker-taxpayer-abortion-assaults-african-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/cory-booker-taxpayer-abortion-assaults-african-american\/","title":{"rendered":"Cory Booker: Opposing taxpayer-funded abortion ‘assaults’ African-American women"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Since several high profile African-American pro-lifers recently spoke out against the eugenic nature of abortion<\/a>, Cory Booker, a presidential hopeful<\/a>, decided to take the opposite approach, arguing that to oppose taxpayer-funded abortion is to effectively attack African-American women.<\/p>\n

In a speech<\/a> given to the Democratic National Committee African-American Leadership Summit in Atlanta, Booker slammed the Hyde Amendment. “This assault on women’s reproductive rights is an assault on women, but it’s particularly assault on African American women,” he said as the crowd cheered. “And the Hyde Amendment to deny people through Medicaid and Medicare abortion rights, that is an assault on African American women, too.”<\/p>\n

He also tweeted a video where he further defended his proposal. “He asked me if I was for the Hyde Amendment, which is for reproductive rights, restricting our ability to make investments in radical things like birth control and family planning,” he said. (Booker incorrectly attempts to link the Hyde Amendment with birth control, but it applies solely to abortion.) “Of course I would look to repeal the Hyde Amendment. But I would go a lot further than that. I would stop the assault on Roe v. Wade. I would want to see Roe v. Wade memorialized in constitutional law. I would want to fund Planned Parenthood. I would want to make sure that we have Supreme Court justices, Circuit Court justices, District Court justices, who will honor the precedent of Roe v. Wade, and make sure that we get back to being a society that trusts women to make their own health care decisions. It shouldn’t be made by a bunch of people in Washington.”<\/p>\n

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The Hyde Amendment is a threat to reproductive rights that punishes women and families who already struggle with access to adequate health care services. pic.twitter.com\/oxza4Odg8t<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Cory Booker (@CoryBooker) June 5, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n