Tue Nov 2, 2021 – 5:47 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — The multi-trillion dollar, Democrat-driven, 1,684-page “Build Back Better Act” creates numerous provisions for funding abortion in defiance of state laws and Hyde Amendment protections.
According to a joint press release issued by Republican Sens. Steve Daines of Montana and James Lankford of Oklahoma, one radical way the proposed bill will expand abortion is to mandate abortion funding for populations currently not covered by Medicaid in the 12 states that have declined to undertake the expansion of Medicaid allowed by Obamacare. The new bill will provide those gap populations with taxpayer subsidies for abortion through Obamacare’s exchange plans in 2024 and 2025 in violation of the individual states’ laws and norms prohibiting the use of Affordable Care Act funds for abortion.
“This is an egregious attack on life and the American taxpayer,” Daines said. “Protecting taxpayer dollars from funding abortions has not been a controversial issue for decades and it should not be one now. This is unacceptable.”
“Americans are overwhelmingly opposed to spending their hard-earned tax dollars on funding abortions,” he continued. “The Democrats’ big government, reckless tax and spending bill strips Hyde Amendment protections and expands abortion subsidies.”
Buried within the bill are numerous other provisions for allocating billions of
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