Nancy Pelosi’s Omnibus Bill Abortion Slush Fund
March 15, 2022 | Texas
Late Wednesday night, Nancy Pelosi’s House of Representatives passed a $1.5 trillion spending package that included — among other obscene provisions — some highly lucrative kickbacks to Democrats’ friends in the abortion industry.
Pro-life groups were quick to claim victory for securing long-standing pro-life provisions in the legislation, such as the Hyde, Helms, and Kemp-Kasten Amendments. They should; these riders are literal lifesavers. Estimates indicate that the Hyde Amendment has saved 2.5 million lives, and — before Democrats’ recent embrace of abortion extremism — enjoyed bipartisan support including from now-President Joe Biden, until his most recent presidential campaign.
However, the Hyde Amendment should really be nothing for Republicans to celebrate, since not directly funding the killing of unborn Americans ought to be the bare minimum baseline for Republican support, regardless of whether we’re in the minority. It used to be.
Furthermore, as this omnibus bill demonstrates, Hyde is not the end all be all in terms of protecting American taxpayer dollars from flowing to the abortion industry. Democrats nevertheless found ways to funnel cash to the abortion lobby, to the tune of millions of dollars, while dodging the protection of pro-life riders.
Tucked away in the more than 2,700-page long bill were numerous provisions that either directly or indirectly support pro-abortion organizations such as the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) or a newly created $200 million fund for a “Gender Equity and Equality Action Fund” that we know will go toward promoting abortion across the globe. …(Excerpt from the Daily Wire)
