Republicans Demand Biden Include Historic Bipartisan Pro-Life Protections in Budget Request
July 5, 2021 | District of Columbia
Over 170 Republican members of Congress called on President Joe Biden Thursday to include pro-life protections in his budget request, warning that the current budget is “an affront to the majority of Americans who do not want their tax dollars funding abortion on demand resulting in the death of children in the womb.”
The Daily Caller News Foundation first obtained the letter warning the president that his fiscal year 2022 budget request will remove bipartisan pro-life protections such as the Hyde Amendment, which bans the use of federal funds for abortions and has been included in appropriations legislation every year since 1976.
Republicans emphasized that Americans who oppose abortion should not be forced to see their taxpayer dollars fund a “brutal procedure that ends the lives of unborn children.”
“We know you understand this. You get it—or at least you once did,” the lawmakers told Biden, reminding the president that he formerly opposed abortion…
(Excerpts from the Tennesse Star)
