U.S. House to Make Permanent the Hyde Amendment
By Shaun Kenney | Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011 | PoliticsLooks as if the House is set to vote as early as tomorrow to make the Hyde Amendment permanent, as well as make whole a patchwork of pro-life laws and regulations.
U.S. Senate candidate Jamie Radtke felt strongly enough to comment on the House bill:
“The representatives of the people must stand up for the rights of pro-life Virginians to not be accessories to the ending of human life,” Radtke said. “The ‘No Taxpayer Funding of Abortion Act’ is a law that is consistent with limited government because it prevents the federal government from forcing pro-life Virginians to take part in activities that are abhorrent to them.”
Pro-lifers are being urged to contact their member of Congress to vote up this very important piece of legislation. H.R. 3 is one in a long line of pro-life bills being heard by the new Republican-led House of Representatives, following a vote in the U.S. Senate on the Pence Amendment brokered by leadership last month.
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Shaun Kenney is the Chairman of the Fluvanna County Board of Supervisors, former Communications Director for the Republican Party of Virginia, and an active blogger since 2002. Shaun lives in Thomas Jefferson's backyard with his wife, six children, and a modest attempt at a farm in Kents Store, Virginia.
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11 Responses to "U.S. House to Make Permanent the Hyde Amendment"
Good move. That will create a lot of jobs.
SV
Don’t mean to pick on you but have you applied that standard to Obama and the Dems? At least this doesn’t cost a trillion dollars and it is a central issue to many Americans whether people agree or not with it. I wouldn’t have a problem with Dems doing something similar of their own if it cost the Treasury nothing and didn’t prevent anyone from doing anything.
Valentinus,
I think that Steve’s point, and it is a very good one, is that with all the financial and economic problems we have in this country it would be useful if the Republicans could try to focus on what is really important and knock off all the social agenda posturing. So you are pro-life. Congratulations. I personally find burning the American flag almost as repugnant as abortion. But spending legislative time and political capital trying to ban it is just not a priority right now with me.
This kind of red meat feeding of the right wing base is going to do nothing to get Obama and the Social Democrats out of power before they turn this country into France. Why can’t Republicans understand, and act upon, the mandate that Independents gave them in 2010? “It’s the economy, stupid!”
HisRoc,
So I take it then that Mitch Daniels (should he decide to run) would be your favorite Republican candidate?
LD,
A Republican candidate that I could support has not announced yet. And among the speculated ones, I see very little to like. But that is life in the Hold-Your-Nose-And-Vote Party.
Double ditto HisRoc’s first post.
HisRoc,
Come on now, are you going to be a leader or will you just hold your nose while you follow the pack. I understand why you are holding your nose while you are in the back. Please do not ask me to get descriptive; Grin.
Sounds to me like Mitch might be the perfect fit for you unless you think you could better serve yourself by running yourself.
But spending legislative time and political capital trying to ban it is just not a priority right now with me.
HisRoc,
Maybe I misunderstood but I didn’t think the Hyde Amendment banned abortion. And actually I don’t think that morality can be legislated. I think the best approach is simply to make abortion socially disrespectable as the Left has done more or less with smoking.
To me there is a tie-in with the economy since this is one more thing the Feds are spending money on that they shouldn’t. We have a 1.7 trillion dollar deficit for a reason. Are the Rebubs hopelessly inarticulate? Well yes. That issue of what the Feds spend money on should be the issue emphasized by them. I agree that I wouldn’t spend large amounts of time and effort to get this done where the Repubs don’t have the WH but it’s not the reason why Boehner cut such a miserable budget deal etc.
Val,
“and didn’t prevent anyone from doing anything.” Maybe I’m out of the loop but what is the Hyde Amendment?
Val,
My quote referred to banning flag burning, not banning abortion; you took it out of context.
Trying to argue abortion on economic grounds is as silly as arguing capital punishment on economic grounds. There is no morally acceptable or compelling cost-benefit analysis that trumps the emotional issue of taking a human life or not. It is disingenuous at best to claim an economic argument for or against either one.
Abortion is a legal, medically ethical procedure in this country. That is black letter law, just as capital punishment is Constitutional. Get used to it.
HR: Yes, that was my point.
Val: Do I think Obama and the Democrats have done enought to create jobs and lower the unemployment rate? No, and frankly that’s the biggest black mark on the administration at this date. The didn’t pasa a big enough stimulus package in a vain and politically stupid attempt to win some Republican votes for the econnomic recovery package. If Democrats remembered how to exercise power, they’d have used their majorities to ram through a much larger stimulus AND single-payer health care and the country would be in much better shape at this point.
The Republican plan of following exactly the policies that got us in to this mess in the first place — lax regulation of the financial sector and feeding the plutocracy — doesn’t sound like an improvement to me.
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