Congress Must Restore Hyde Amendment, Tennessee Attorney General Herb Slatery Says
Tennessee | June 24, 2021
Tennessee Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III and 21 other state attorneys general urged Congress to maintain the Hyde Amendment in the 2022 budget.
The amendment prohibits the use of federal funds for abortions. Members of the Biden administration removed the amendment despite its inclusion in federal budgets for the last 45 years.
This, according to a press release that Slatery and members of his staff emailed this week.
In a letter, the attorneys general called on Congress to resist the president’s efforts to force taxpayers who object to abortions to pay for them.
“The Hyde Amendment has been an area of common ground in the fight over abortion,” Slatery said in the press release.
“Prohibiting the federal funding of most abortions is what both Democrats and Republicans have supported for decades and should not be changed.”
In their letter, the attorneys general said many taxpayers object to funding abortion or moral or religious grounds and to force them to do so is unconscionable.
“Congress should resist following President Biden down this path and should instead maintain the Hyde Amendment language in the budget it ultimately passes,” according to the letter….
(Excerpt from the Tennessee Star)