{"id":219776,"date":"2020-03-09T14:55:16","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T19:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=219776"},"modified":"2020-03-10T00:24:34","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T05:24:34","slug":"bernie-sanders-reproductive-health-plan-taxpayers-abortions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/bernie-sanders-reproductive-health-plan-taxpayers-abortions\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders’ new abortion plan would force taxpayers to fund abortions in U.S. and abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders (I-VT) recently revealed his plan to advance “reproductive health.” Sanders believes “abortion is a constitutional right,” and if elected, he vows to codify Roe v. Wade<\/em> as federal law. In 1973, the Supreme Court legalized abortion through all nine months of pregnancy with its\u00a0Roe<\/em> and Doe v. Bolton<\/em> decisions.\u00a0Here are the main points of Sanders’ plan<\/a>:<\/p>\n

1. Institute taxpayer-funded abortions and birth control<\/strong><\/p>\n

First on Sanders’ to-do list appears to be the repeal of the Hyde Amendment under his Medicare for All plan. The Hyde Amendment prevents federal taxpayer dollars from being used to pay for abortions. Sanders takes it a step further, as the details of his plan also reveal that “all reproductive health services will be provided free at the point of service.”<\/p>\n

Free abortion for all means that taxpayers will be covering the cost of all abortions committed in the United States. The same would be true for birth control, as Sanders’ plan is to provide this free for everyone as well.<\/p>\n

2. Increase funding for Planned Parenthood<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sanders wants to expand funding for the nation’s largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood, which showed excess revenue of $110 million in its 2018 annual report<\/a> as well as nearly $2 billion in net assets, and which commits 40% of the nation’s total abortions —\u00a0345,672 in 2018, its highest recorded number ever in a single year. Abortions done by Planned Parenthood have increased as taxpayer funding has increased, while legitimate health care services provided by the corporation have decreased.<\/p>\n