{"id":605987,"date":"2021-07-29T13:51:11","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T17:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=605987"},"modified":"2021-07-29T13:51:13","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T17:51:13","slug":"american-taxpayers-poised-to-fund-abortion-overseas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/american-taxpayers-poised-to-fund-abortion-overseas\/","title":{"rendered":"American Taxpayers Poised To Fund Abortion Overseas"},"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\">14<\/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%2Famerican-taxpayers-poised-to-fund-abortion-overseas%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=605987&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 readability=\"28.937799043062\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/\">Politics<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">House Democrats pass spending bill gutting pro-life protections<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"719\" height=\"508\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-84410581-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 719px) 100vw, 719px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-84410581.jpg 719w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/GettyImages-84410581-300x212.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tA pro-abortion protester \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/patrick-hauf\/\" title=\"Posts by Patrick Hauf\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Patrick Hauf<\/a> \u2022 July 29, 2021 1:40 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"103.85424528302\">\n<p>House Democrats gutted a decades-old bipartisan agreement that prevents taxpayer dollars from funding abortion overseas in legislation passed Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats removed the Helms Amendment from a foreign-related spending bill for the first time since it was introduced in 1973. The bill permanently removes the Mexico City policy, an executive order that Republican presidents have enacted to prevent taxpayer dollars from funding international organizations involved in abortion services. The House passed the bill Wednesday night by a 217 to 212 margin\u2014with 3 Democrats voting against it.<\/p>\n<p>Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, said Democrats such as President Joe Biden used to support the Helms Amendment and other bipartisan pro-life protections but are flip-flopping because they rely too heavily on the abortion lobby.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Abortion is violence against the most vulnerable, not \u2018family planning,'&#8221; Dannenfelser said. &#8220;Americans should never be forced to subsidize abortion on demand through birth at home, to be complicit in human rights abuses overseas, or to export abortion extremism around the globe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A January <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kofc.org\/en\/resources\/news-room\/polls\/kofc-americans-opinions-on-abortion012021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">poll<\/a> from Marist and the Knights of Columbus found that more than three-fourths of respondents oppose taxpayer dollars funding abortion in other countries.<\/p>\n<p>America&#8217;s domestic abortion policies are at odds with the rest of the world. The United States is one of only eight countries in the world that allow abortions past 20 weeks, along with China and North Korea.&nbsp;Recent studies have found U.S. abortion laws to be far more extreme than those in other democratic countries. <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/policy\/study-american-abortion-laws-closer-to-north-korea-than-europe\/\">According<\/a> to the Charlotte Lozier Institute, more than half of European countries ban abortion after 12 weeks\u2014a policy ruled unconstitutional in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Tom McClusky, president of March for Life Action, said the bill is an example of Democrats forcing their radical abortion views on poorer nations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;By eliminating the Helms Amendment, Democrats are attempting to impose an unwanted abortion imperialism on both taxpayers and developing nations, many of which have pro-life laws,&#8221; McClusky said. &#8220;Abortion is not development assistance, and American taxpayers should not be forced to fund the abortion industry, either at home or abroad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The legislation increases funding for the United Nations Population Fund, to which the Trump administration halted aid in 2017 because of the group&#8217;s relationship with the Chinese Communist Party&#8217;s family planning regimen.<\/p>\n<p>The only three Democrats to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.govtrack.us\/congress\/votes\/117-2021\/h243\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vote<\/a> against the larger bill, which came out of the State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs subcommittee, were noted &#8220;Squad&#8221; members Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.), Rashida Tlaib (Mich.), and Cori Bush (Mo.). None of the dissenting Democrats responded to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The Hyde Amendment, which prevents taxpayer dollars from funding abortion domestically, was removed from a spending bill <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/dems-advance-taxpayer-funded-abortion-through-committee\/\">advanced<\/a> by the Labor, Health, and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies subcommittee in July. It is unclear if this spending bill will also pass the House.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politics House Democrats pass spending bill gutting pro-life protections  A pro-abortion protester \/ Getty Images  Patrick Hauf \u2022 July 29, 2021 1:40 pm &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-605987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605987","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}