Health-Spending Bill Would Keep Ban on Tax-Funded Abortion
On Jan. 14, the U.S. bishops sent a letter to Congress 'to stress in the strongest possible terms that Hyde is essential for health care policy that protects human dignity.'
On Jan. 14, the U.S. bishops sent a letter to Congress 'to stress in the strongest possible terms that Hyde is essential for health care policy that protects human dignity.'
COMMENTARY: Abraham Lincoln would have approved. So would St. Thomas More.
The courthouse will now be known as the DuPage County Judicial Office Facility, the Chicago Tribune reported.
In response, pro-life Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville launched what turned into a 10-month-long standoff in which he attempted to pressure the administration to rescind the policy.
The chairman of the bishops’ pro-life committee commended President Donald Trump for his executive order to end Biden administration policies that used taxpayer dollars to fund abortions worldwide.
‘In the post-Dobbs landscape, it is as important as ever that government priorities respond in authentic, life-affirming ways to the needs of mothers and their families. We continue to call for policies that put children and families first.’
The policy, which has been in place since 2022, was made final in a rule posted in the federal register on Monday.
The rules have generated significant blowback at the federal level.
Biden excluded the Hyde Amendment from his budget request to Congress for the 2022 fiscal year.
‘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.
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