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House GOP Stand against Democrat Removal of Hyde Amendment Ban on Taxpayer-funded Abortions in Budget Bill

Washington Examiner : Jan 27, 2021
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"...Radical Democrats have signaled they no longer have an interest in protecting the conscience rights of millions of Americans who do not want their hard-earned money used to pay for abortions..." -Republican Study Committee Chairman Jim Banks

airlift[IFAPray.org] Two hundred House Republicans, accounting for nearly the entire caucus, signed on to a pledge to oppose a budget bill that eliminates the Hyde Amendment, the measure that prevents federal funding from being used on abortion services. (Screengrab image: via YouTube)

"We cannot allow the Hyde Amendment and other important pro-life safeguards to be decimated by Congressional Democrats. Accordingly, we pledge to vote against any government funding bill that eliminates or weakens the Hyde Amendment or other current-law, pro-life appropriations provisions," read the letter to House and Senate leadership, released by the Republican Study Committee...

"Despite decades of consensus on this issue, radical Democrats have signaled they no longer have an interest in protecting the conscience rights of millions of Americans who do not want their hard-earned money used to pay for abortions. My colleagues and I demand congressional leaders protect the ban on taxpayer-funded abortions and save the Hyde Amendment," Republican Study Committee Chairman Jim Banks said in a statement... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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