{"id":237507,"date":"2021-01-08T11:41:45","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T17:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=237507"},"modified":"2021-01-27T14:36:47","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T20:36:47","slug":"three-things-america-lose-taxpayer-funded-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/three-things-america-lose-taxpayer-funded-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Three things America stands to lose with taxpayer-funded abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A top priority of the abortion industry and its political allies in 2021 is to eliminate the Hyde Amendment, a legislative policy that prohibits federal taxpayer-funded programs \u2014\u00a0including Medicaid \u2014 from paying for most abortions. Despite over four decades of bipartisan support for the Hyde Amendment, pro-abortion groups and lawmakers now claim it is racially discriminatory and want to see it end.<\/p>\n

Each year since 1976, the Hyde Amendment has been attached to federal spending bills as a rider. During Bill Clinton’s presidency, an exception was made to the Hyde Amendment for women who had been raped or were victims of incest as well as women whose lives were in danger (although deliberately destroying a preborn human being is never necessary, even for medical reasons<\/a>). In order to end the Hyde Amendment, abortion advocacy groups are working to push through the EACH Woman Act<\/strong> (Equal Access to Abortion Coverage in Health Insurance Act). Among the sponsors is Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris. The EACH Woman Act will define abortion as part of basic healthcare coverage and will force federal insurance programs such as Medicaid to cover abortions. It will also prevent state, federal, and local governments from restricting abortion coverage through private insurance plans and eliminate the provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that have allowed states to prohibit abortion coverage in plans offered through ACA marketplaces.<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0SAVE HYDE: Taxpayer-funded abortion won\u2019t help poor women. It will only help the abortion industry.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The claim that the Hyde Amendment is racially discriminatory is blatantly false. Eliminating the Hyde Amendment would deeply wound American society and allow widespread, government-funded eugenic abortions fueled by racism and discrimination against the underprivileged. America stands to lose a great deal if taxpayer-funded abortion becomes the order of the day.<\/p>\n

Sixty-thousand children every year<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Hyde Amendment saves 60,000 preborn children from being killed by abortion each year<\/em>. The value of those lives is immeasurable, and their potential impact is incalculable.<\/p>\n

History has shown<\/a> that federal funding for abortion actually increases<\/em> the number of abortions committed. A 2007 report<\/a>\u00a0from the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute stated that the Hyde Amendment prevented 18-35% of abortion-minded women from going through with an abortion. When the government financially backs something, the use of that product or service increases. More recent data backs up this finding. A 2017 report<\/a> by the pro-abortion Reproductive Health Investors Alliance showed that the percentage of abortions paid by taxpayers in states that don’t<\/em> allow Medicaid to pay for abortions was 1.5%. Comparatively, in states that allow<\/em> Medicaid to pay for abortions, that number skyrocketed to a whopping 52.2%.\u00a0Also in 2017, the Guttmacher Institute found<\/a> that women who undergo government-funded abortions tend to have more<\/em> abortions. Why would the government want to increase abortions if it truly wants abortion to be rare?<\/p>\n

Planned Parenthood’s latest annual report<\/a> showed a correlation between the amount of government funding received and the number of abortions committed. The abortion corporation carried out a record 345,672 abortions in the 2018-19 fiscal year while its government funding increased more than eight percent to $616.8 million. There has been an overall national decline in abortion numbers, yet as the government feeds more money to Planned Parenthood, it has captured 40% of the total US abortion market share.<\/p>\n