{"id":227996,"date":"2020-07-27T19:05:49","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T00:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=227996"},"modified":"2020-07-27T19:05:49","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T00:05:49","slug":"biden-agenda-women-abortion-taxpayer-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/biden-agenda-women-abortion-taxpayer-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden’s ‘Agenda for Women’: Funding more abortion with taxpayer dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former Vice President and presumptive Democratic Presidential Nominee Joe Biden has released his “Agenda for Women<\/a>.” One of his priorities is ensuring that abortion businesses stay open by blocking restrictions on abortion and providing government funding to the industry both domestically and internationally.<\/p>\n

The Hyde Amendment<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Vice President Biden supports repealing the Hyde Amendment because health care is a right that should not be dependent on one’s zip code or income.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Up until last year, Biden supported the Hyde Amendment<\/a>, which prevents federal taxpayer funding of elective abortions through Medicaid and other government programs. The Hyde Amendment, which is supported by a significant\u00a0majority of Americans<\/a>, is a pro-life rider that has been added to a Department of Health and Human Services appropriations bill every year since 1976. It saves about 60,000 children from abortion annually.\u00a0Government funding of abortion is government-sanctioned killing that would make abortion free only for disadvantaged women.<\/p>\n

Whether or not a woman undergoes an abortion should not be determined by her income and a child’s life should not be devalued and targeted for abortion based on the financial status of his parents. Abortion is not health care; the deliberate killing of a preborn child is never medically necessary<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Codify Roe v. Wade<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Biden will work to codify Roe v. Wade, and his Justice Department will do everything in its power to stop the rash of state laws that so blatantly violate Roe v. Wade.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Thanks to the 1973 sister Supreme Court rulings of Roe v. Wade<\/em> and Doe v. Bolton<\/em>, abortion is legal in the United States with essentially no restrictions. However, states are allowed to pass laws on abortion after the age of viability, which currently stands at 24 weeks even though babies born at\u00a021 weeks<\/a> can and do survive with proper medical care.<\/p>\n

To codify Roe v. Wade<\/em> would mean that legal abortion would no longer be a decision of the courts or state legislators, but would be a federal right, allowing abortion to remain legal even if Roe v. Wade<\/em> were to be eventually overturned. States would no longer have any power over abortion laws within their borders.<\/p>\n

Restore federal funding for Planned Parenthood<\/strong><\/p>\n

“As President, Biden will reissue guidance specifying that states cannot refuse Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood and other providers and reverse the Trump Administration’s rule preventing these organizations from obtaining Title X funds.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Title X provides federal funding to family planning clinics. The Trump administration made changes<\/a> to the Title X funding program that ensured abortion businesses kept abortion separate from birth control\/family planning services. Planned Parenthood, rather than follow this rule, opted to withdraw from Title X funding and forfeit the $60 million it received annually from this provision. The abortion corporation could have kept those federal funds if it had complied with the rule.<\/p>\n

Biden said he would also force states to give Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood and other abortion businesses, whether the state legislators or citizens wanted to or not.<\/p>\n