{"id":246472,"date":"2021-06-05T10:19:33","date_gmt":"2021-06-05T15:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=246472"},"modified":"2021-06-04T21:21:52","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T02:21:52","slug":"biden-budget-millions-planned-parenthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/biden-budget-millions-planned-parenthood\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden’s proposed budget could send millions more taxpayer dollars to Planned Parenthood"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(National Review<\/a>) — Late last week, the Biden administration released its proposed budget for fiscal year 2022, and, unsurprisingly, it came as a huge disappointment to pro-lifers.<\/p>\n

The budget calls for a repeal of the Dornan amendment, which would make it possible for the District of Columbia Medicaid program to start directly funding elective abortions. It also calls for a 19 percent increase in funding to the Title X family planning program, which likely would result in millions of additional taxpayer dollars going to Planned Parenthood and other abortion facilities.<\/p>\n

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The budget proposal also includes a whopping 72 percent increase in funding for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), which\u00a0has supported<\/a>\u00a0the Chinese government\u2019s population-control activities, including forced abortions.<\/p>\n

Perhaps most important, this is the first time since 1993 that a presidential budget proposal has failed to include the Hyde amendment. Since the 1970s, the Hyde amendment has prevented the federal government from directly reimbursing for the cost of elective abortions through Medicaid.<\/p>\n

By failing to include the Hyde amendment, the Biden administration\u2019s budget marks a substantial departure from precedent, even for Democratic presidents. Each of the federal budgets that the administrations of President Jimmy Carter and President Barack Obama proposed included the Hyde amendment. Nearly every budget that President Bill Clinton\u2019s administration proposed contained Hyde as well, with the\u00a0exception of his first budget<\/a>, which he proposed months after his 1993 inauguration.<\/p>\n

Given that Biden\u2019s first budget proposal does not include Hyde, it is evidently the official position of this administration that abortion should not only be legal but also should be funded with federal taxpayer dollars. This suggests that Biden\u2019s statements about unity and compromise are empty rhetoric, as there is no contemporary political issue more divisive or polarizing than abortion. By requiring taxpayers to pay for elective abortions, Biden has chosen to divide rather than unify, polarize rather than compromise.<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Secular Pro-life: \u2018Hyde Amendment may be single greatest pro-life achievement\u2019<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

We might learn a lesson from what happened after Clinton\u2019s proposed budget for fiscal year 1994, which also failed to include Hyde. It should be noted that the Clinton administration succeeded in weakening the Hyde amendment. In 1994, the federal Medicaid program began reimbursing for abortions performed in cases of rape or incest. For most of the 1980s and 1990s, federal Medicaid funds had only covered abortion in cases when the mother\u2019s life was in danger.<\/p>\n