{"id":443226,"date":"2021-04-22T18:06:15","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T22:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=443226"},"modified":"2021-04-22T18:06:22","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T22:06:22","slug":"biden-ramps-up-abortion-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-ramps-up-abortion-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Ramps Up Abortion Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">10<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-ramps-up-abortion-agenda%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=443226&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3354.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Three months into his presidency, President Joe Biden has begun to ramp up his administration\u2019s ambitious agenda on abortion access, the aggressive approach already yielding benefits for the nation\u2019s largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Biden reversed a Trump administration rule barring groups who provide abortions or abortion referrals from receiving government funding from Title X, the country\u2019s family-planning program for low-income patients.<\/p>\n<p>When the \u201cdomestic gag rule,\u201d as it was dubbed by abortion advocates, was introduced in 2019, Planned Parenthood responded by announcing that it would simply withdraw from Title X. If Biden\u2019s rule is finalized, a process that can take several months, Planned Parenthood CEO Alexis McGill Johnson said the abortion provider may return to the program at some point next year.<\/p>\n<p>Also last week, the Biden administration loosened restrictions around at-home medication abortions, a significant victory for pro-abortion groups. In a reversal of a\u00a0Trump-era policy,\u00a0FDA Commissioner Janet Woodcock said her agency would stop enforcing\u00a0a restriction requiring women using\u00a0abortion pills to obtain the first drug in the two-dose regimen, mifepristone,\u00a0in person from a medical provider. The FDA will now allow women to obtain the pills by mail during the\u00a0coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Pro-life groups were quick to point out the FDA\u2019s own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/media\/112118\/download\">data<\/a> from 2018 showing 768 hospitalizations and 24 deaths since 2000 among women using abortion pills, along with thousands of cases of infections, blood loss requiring a transfusion, and other adverse events.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith this action, the Biden administration has made it clear that it will prioritize abortion over women\u2019s safety. Allowing unsupervised chemical abortions via telemedicine, without requiring timely access to medical care, will put women in grave danger,\u201d said\u00a0Jeanne Mancini, president of the March for Life.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Biden\u2019s Secretary of State Antony Blinken scrapped the recommendations of a State Department commission on unalienable rights set up by his predecessor, saying the new administration will \u201crepudiate those unbalanced views.\u201d The now-disbanded commission had emphasized in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Draft-Report-of-the-Commission-on-Unalienable-Rights.pdf\">report<\/a> that Americans are not of one mind on abortion rights and rebuked \u201cthe temptation to cloak a contestable political preference in the mantle of human rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The administration\u2019s recent moves in favor of abortion access come after Biden kicked off his presidency with a reversal of another Trump administration rule and a renewed commitment to ensuring access to abortion on demand.<\/p>\n<p>Just eight days after he was inaugurated, Biden repealed the Trump administration\u2019s expanded version of the Mexico City Policy, known as the \u201cglobal gag rule,\u201d which prohibits taxpayer dollars going to foreign non-governmental organizations that perform or promote abortion. Trump had expanded the Reagan-era policy\u2019s funding restrictions to apply to\u00a0all\u00a0global health\u00a0organizations that receive U.S. government funding rather than solely family planning organizations.<\/p>\n<p>Two days after they were sworn in, Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris reemphasized their\u00a0commitment to codifying\u00a0<em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>, the 1973 Supreme Court case that legalized abortion nationwide.\u00a0Overturning the landmark decision has become a white whale of sorts for abortion opponents.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Biden and Harris also\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2021\/01\/22\/statement-from-president-biden-and-vice-president-harris-on-the-48th-anniversary-of-roe-v-wade\/\">assured<\/a> that they would leverage the judiciary in support of abortion access as well, appointing judges that \u201crespect foundational precedents like <i>Roe<\/i>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Along the same lines, and in what would be one of the administration\u2019s most progressive moves, Biden is expected to attempt to repeal the Hyde Amendment, which bars direct taxpayer funding of elective abortions under Medicaid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t justify leaving millions of women without access to the care they need and the ability to exercise their constitutionally protected right,\u201d Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/06\/06\/us\/politics\/joe-biden-hyde-amendment.html\">said<\/a> in June 2019 during his campaign. \u201cIf I believe health care is a right as I do, I can no longer support an amendment that makes that right dependent on someone\u2019s zip code.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, the administration hedged in January when asked whether Biden, a staunch supporter of the amendment for decades, planned to scrap it. During her very first press conference on Inauguration Day, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki dodged a reporter\u2019s question on the issue and declared that the president \u201cis a devout Catholic and somebody who attends church regularly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s attacks on the Hyde Amendment propel Democrats into relatively new ideological territory. Even Biden\u2019s former boss, President Obama, signed an order preserving the amendment, which attempts to ensure that taxpayers who do not support abortion are not forced to fund something at odds with their conscience.\u00a0Before the Hyde Amendment took effect in 1980, Medicaid was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=121402281?storyId=121402281\">paying<\/a> for about 300,000 abortions a year.<\/p>\n<p>Biden also strongly supports passing the Equal Rights Amendment, which abortion advocates have long argued would enshrine the right to abortion in law and nullify restrictions on taxpayer funding, but the amendment still faces an uphill battle to being\u00a0incorporated into the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Planned Parenthood\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/planned-parenthood-still-receiving-millions-in-small-business-pandemic-relief\">continues<\/a> to receive millions of dollars in emergency pandemic aid in recent weeks, even after the abortion provider came under fire last year for snatching up federal coronavirus relief meant for small businesses. Affiliates of the massive nonprofit have received at least $8 million in relief this year from the\u00a0Paycheck Protection Program on top of the about $80 million that affiliates across the country were awarded by the program last year toward the beginning of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three months into his presidency, President Joe Biden has begun to ramp up his administration\u2019s ambitious agenda on abortion access, the aggressive approach already yielding benefits for the nation\u2019s largest &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276514,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3354.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Biden Ramps Up Abortion Agenda","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3354.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Biden Ramps Up Abortion Agenda","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}