ACTION – Re-elect President Trump, It’s a MUST!
Yes, votes count. Yes, judicial appointments are important. Yes, the wall must be finished. Yes, illegal entry into the U.S. must be stopped. Yes, Congress must become conservative. Yes, health care must be improved. Yes, education needs attention. Not one of these initiatives or Trump‟s executive orders will escape radical change … unless President Trump is re-elected.
Q. Would a Democrat President repeal the Hyde Amendment?
A. Yes, because it restricts Medicaid funding for abortion.
Q. What is the Hyde Amendment and why is it so despised by Democrats?
In 1976 Illinois Congressman Henry J. Hyde proposed an amendment to the Departments of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare Appropriation Act of 1977. His amendment passed, stating that no federal grant given to states through Medicaid1 could fund abortion services.
Since the Hyde amendment exists on an appropriation bill that must be passed annually, no doubt, it would be repealed or unacceptably amended in the first year of a Democrat-controlled House and Senate, led by a Democrat president.
On June 30, 1980, in a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Hyde Amendment did not violate the U.S. Constitution when it banned the use of federal Medicaid funding to pay for abortion services. That same year, Congress extended the Hyde Amendment exceptions to include pregnancies caused by incest or rape. The next year, Congress removed that change, but added it again in 1993. Later amendments limited federal funding of abortion services for federal government employees, prisoners, and military personnel.
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