The House Appropriations Committee on Thursday advanced a funding bill for fiscal year 2022 without including the usual prohibitions on abortion funding.
According to a committee summary, the appropriations bill – which funds the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and Education – provides for $253.8 billion for the 2022 fiscal year, an increase of 28% from the current year. It does not include the Hyde Amendment, federal policy since 1976 that prohibits funding of most elective abortions in Medicaid.
An amendment to include the Hyde Amendment in the appropriations bill failed at Thursday’s markup hearing in a 27-32 vote. The legislation, without the Hyde Amendment, ultimately passed the committee by a vote of 33-25.
In remarks at the hearing, Rep. Kay Granger (R-Texas), ranking member of the appropriations committee, said the Hyde Amendment “reflects a longstanding compromise on a controversial issue.”
“The removal of this provision is deeply troubling to me, both morally as well as what it means for the appropriations process and bipartisanship moving forward,” Granger said.
The amendment, named for the late Rep. Henry Hyde of Illinois, prohibits the use of taxpayer funds for elective abortions. The policy was first enacted in 1976, three years after the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion nationwide.
In 1993, exceptions were added to the amendment for cases involving rape, incest, or a maternal mortality risk. Since the amendment is not permanent law, it must be attached to individual appropriations bills each year in order to take effect.
In a joint statement on Tuesday, Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York, chairman of the USCCB’s religious liberty committee, and Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City in Kansas, chairman of the USCCB’s pro-life committee, called the bill “the most extreme pro-abortion appropriations bill that we have seen, effectively mandating healthcare professionals to participate in abortion, and forcing American citizens to pay for abortion with their tax dollars.”
Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), the vice ranking Republican on the committee who introduced the amendment, said at Thursday’s hearing that excluding the Hyde Amendment “also threatens to destabilize the entire appropriations process, because this bill will never become law if this language is not included.”
He argued that House Democrats did not have the votes to pass the bill without Republican support, and that the bill would not survive in the Senate without the provision.
Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), chair of the House Appropriations Committee, said on Thursday, “I know that this is the source of much concern on the other side of the aisle.”
“But I do believe repealing the Hyde Amendment is the best thing we can do to support our mothers and families and help prevent, rather than penalize unwanted pregnancies and later, riskier and more costly abortions,” said DeLauro, a Catholic who recently co-led a statement of principles by 60 Catholic House Democrats….
The above comes from a July 15 story on the site of the Catholic News Agency.
If that isn’t the face of the demonic, I don’t know what is.
The question is what is that thing? And by the way why would the Bishops be so shocked most of them vote DEMOCRAT.
Here’s a hint, Romulus: that photo was taken in Roswell, New Mexico [if you catch my drift].
Biden will sign anything that expands abortion.
I signed the USCCB’s petition to keep the Hyde Amendment– but I do not agree with the tactics of today’s “modern” Church, seeking to establish Christian Morality by secular votes and by making secular laws. I prefer the centuries- old style, of clerics preaching and teaching Christian Morality to their worshippers, Catholic, Protestant or Jewish– establishing a good religious culture, and contributing to the overall religious and moral life of a Nation. I would rather see heavy-handed Catholic prohibitions against Abortion, birth control, dirty movies and books, etc.– and strong prohibitions against those teaching beliefs contrary to the Catholic Faith. And all the other churches likewise teaching and preaching Christian beliefs and morality. When I was young, about 80% of America was in a church on Sunday morning– so-called “hypocrites,” and “lukewarm” believers all had to likewise conform, whether or not you were a devout believer. Everyone was encouraged to attend the church/synagogue of their choice, and Sunday sermon titles and details of church/synagogue events, of all the churches and synagogues in town– were always printed in newspapers, on Fridays. Those with no church were encouraged by neighbors, to visit their church, and seek one to join. Agnostics and atheists were viewed as “oddballs,” on the fringes of society, and ignored. Best to establish religious belief and practice in a national culture. And then, make laws accordingly.
Social media platforms have all been shamefully blocking the USCCB’s 30-second ad, urging Congress to keep the Hyde Amendment. Isn’t that just terrible?
I just read a news story all about new pastors on Planned Parenthood’s national “Clergy Advocacy Board.” These pastors are of diverse faiths, and are all abortion advocates. Planned Parenthood’s national Clergy Advocacy Board was
founded in 1994. I had no idea such a horror as this ever existed.
The TLM was aborted.
Rep. Rosa DeLauro is a sick, demented woman. Decent, normal “mothers and families” certainly do not kill their own children. If they do– they are murderers who should be sent to prison. And repealing the Hyde Amendment certainly does not “support mothers and families.”
Strange that Democrats are so eager to champion extreme “hippie evils” of “partying” and fornication– and to kill the resulting “unwanted” child. Instead, they should champion youth behaving responsibly and maturely– with self-control and chastity in dating, no “partying,” and responsibly placing a poor, “unwanted” child for adoption, if a boy and girl commit sin. Why is adoption never the option– for the Satanic Democrats?
And some Bishops still support democratic politicians and are too political to take a stand against dems and stand for the Churches’ and Christ’s teaching. Wake up Bishops especially san diego Bishops
I think instead of persecuting innocent old Latin Mass-goers, focusing on a wobbly false “unity” in a papal-favored Mass, among mostly “Catholic apostates” who lead sinful lives, vote “Democrat,” believe pornography, contraception, fornication, and abortion are mostly “okay,” support civil divorce and re-marriage, extreme feminism, gay “marriage” and the “LGBT” agenda– and reject the truth of the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist– the Pope should really focus on cleaning up his sickening, sinful, apostate Church.
Rep Lauro’s wiki page indicates that she is a Catholic.
And yet, I attend the SSPX mass and many here call me schismatic. Steve S specifically calls SSPX as not Catholic.
When her Bishop denies her communion. When she is excommunicated for her manifest sins, then come back and tell me about SSPX not Catholic.
It’s beyond ridiculous that the CC moderators let a comment about abortinig the TLM thru. But here we are.
Why are you making this all about you?
So you go to the SSPX. Goody for you.
Don’t mix apples and oranges. Why do you attend Mass at a community not in full communion with your local bishop and not in full communion with Rome if you don’t want to be considered schismatic?
This is a problem that I see-people deciding for themselves who and what is and isn’t Catholic.
The way to Heaven is obedience to the Pope and to the Church.
Nobody can judge the state of another person’s soul.
We can see their actions and think that action is sinful.
If someone attends an SSPX Mass, we don’t know why they are doing it.
I will warn anybody that I have seen very misleading information on their status on their webpage.
My decision would be to go to Mass at my disgnated Catholic Church; then watch Father Illo’s Mass on Youtube.
I would offer up anything I found untoward at the Mass.
Another thing people used to do was bring the Latin Missals and stay after Mass and pray.
I wonder if this woman belongs to a wiccan coven, and I mean that literally. The wiccans in that bookstore I mentioned on another article all wore their hair similarly. Those wiccans were putting witchcraft books in the bookstores on tables of photography, on tables of children’s books, on tables for math books and so on and so forth.
I doubt she wears a medal of the Lord Jesus or the Virgin Mary or a real Catholic saint. If she wears a pentagram (an upside down, five-pointed star within a circle), she is an apostate for sure.
Pray for this poor deceived woman.
When I was a kid I loved the Kenner Easy Bay Coven. I’d make tasty snacks with it.
Anne TE-she is a Catholic. She says she streaks her hair purple because she likes it that way.
https://www.ctpost.com/politics/article/D-C-Buzz-In-mixed-Congress-DeLauro-stays-purple-13412801.php
Correction to my July 19 post at 7:17 pm to third line: bookstore not bookstores.
Regarding my last post the upside-side down pentagram is demonic, and the regular pentagram a wiccan symbol. Both wiccans and Satanists would be apostates, though, if they had been baptized Christians. No if’s, and’s or but’s about it.
“When I was a kid I loved the Kenner Easy Bay Coven. I’d make tasty snacks with it.”
That was the worst (best) pun in history.
Maybe you have to be real old like me to get it.
There was an Easy Bake Oven when my daughters were growing up. I am guessing the pun means that witches go to hell. You can correct me if I am wrong.
Of course all of us women have been “witches” to someone at times, even though we might not have cast any spells. (Laughter.)
“Of course all of us women have
been “witches” to someone at times…”
Agreed, Anne TE, but “watch your consonants.”