
Fight Over Abortion, Transgender Treatments Heats Up Ahead of Defense Spending Vote
The National Defense Authorization Act sets the military budget each year.
The National Defense Authorization Act sets the military budget each year.
The rule does not have any conscience protections for doctors or other health workers who object to providing abortions.
‘Abortion is not health care unless one construes the precious life of an unborn child to be analogous to a tumor to be excised or a disease to be vanquished — pregnancy is not a disease,’ said U.S. Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J.
‘Abortion is not family planning,’ stated Archbishop Joseph Naumann, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities.
Pro-life leaders criticized the omission of these ‘riders’ from the spending bills.
President Joe Biden is expected to release the details of his budget request for the 2022 fiscal year next week.
The House could be voting as soon as Tuesday on a COVID relief package that pro-life groups warn would increase funding of abortions.
The former vice president supported the Hyde Amendment for over four decades, but reversed his position earlier this year, just one day after reaffirming his support for the policy.
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