Pro-life Leaders Urge Congress To Protect Hyde
New York | June 7, 2021
62 pro-life leaders from national and state organizations, including New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms, recently sent a letter to congressional leadership urging them to fight for the Hyde Amendment and other similar longstanding pro-life riders to be included in the federal budget. The signees correctly anticipated that the riders, which must be added during the appropriations process each year, would not be included in President Biden’s proposed budget.
The letter reads in part:
“As recently as 2006, then-Senator Biden was on the record opposing tax funding of abortion, saying, ‘I do not vote for funding for abortion… I won’t support public funding.’ Yet when on the presidential campaign trail in 2019, he flip-flopped to support abortion funding, directly contradicting his longstanding position…
(Excerpts from New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms)