Tue Mar 29, 2022 – 4:42 pm EDTTue Mar 29, 2022 – 4:51 pm EDT
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – President Joe Biden is proposing the elimination of the Hyde Amendment, along with other longstanding limits on federal taxpayer funding of abortion, in his proposed budget for fiscal year 2023.
Traditionally included every year in federal budgets with little objection, the Hyde Amendment is estimated to have saved more than 2 million lives since its adoption decades ago, by forbidding most taxpayer dollars from funding abortions except for cases of rape, incest, or threat to a mother’s life.
The Dornan Amendment, meanwhile, prohibits taxpayer funding for abortions in the District of Columbia, and the Aderholt Amendment prohibits the creation of gene-edited embryos for medical experimentation, such as three-parent embryos.
Biden’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2023 calls for repealing all three amendments, as well as funding increases for various programs through which the federal government supports the abortion industry, including Title X, the Teen Pregnancy Prevention program, and the United Nations Population Fund.
Other highlights of concern include $5 million for “implicit bias training” grants for healthcare workers, which critics fear could be used to discriminate against
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