FLIPPING JOE BIDEN GAGS ON HYDE AMENDMENT

“FLIPPING” JOE BIDEN SEALS HIS FATE: PLACES  PRO-ABORTION MILLSTONE AROUND HIS NECK 

BIDEN TOO WEAK TO OPPOSE PRESSURE OF RADICAL FRINGE IN DEM PARTY

ABANDONMENT OF HYDE WOULD FORCE CATHOLICS AND 140 MILLION OTHER PRO-LIFE TAX PAYERS TO PAY TAXES FOR WHAT THEIR CONSCIENCE DICTATES IS AN ACT OF IMMORALITY

I read today (JUNE 7, 2019)  that nominal Catholic, “Uncle Joe Biden”, has flipped his stance on abortion—yet again.  Joe came on stage at a rally in Atlanta (yesterday)  with his toothy white Cheshire Cat smile and proceeded to  flip-flop his position again on the subject of abortion.  Turning belly up to the fringe radicals in his party,  former VP Biden  joins the rest of the wild-eyed radical fringe Democrats who have all abandoned support for the Hyde Amendment as if it was some major barrier to a “women’s right to choose”.  It isn’t!  

The Hyde Amendment does not limit abortion rights.  Rather, it simply and rightly protects the rights of the millions of American taxpayers from being forced to pay for and be party to what is for them an unconscionable act.  

At the Atlanta gathering for big-pocket progressive donors, candidate Joe Biden passed over a probing question on his son, Hunter Biden’s embarrassing  financial ties to big money deals in the Ukraine and China,  but then turned to take on a question from another journalist regarding  his position on the Hyde Amendment.

Candidate Biden has been all over the map on abortion—mostly holding a Clintonesque “legal and rare” position  early on,   But that has radically changed last night. His response to the Hyde Amendment question puts him right there among the other candidates for the 2020 nod, such as  Warren, Sanders, Harris and Booker all of whom are full-fledged, pro-abortion, anti-Catholic, anti-religious, pro-abortion, no holds barred fringe candidates—described aptly by columnist George Will as “Doofus” candidates. 
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To preface his capitulation to the powerful forces in his party who would not countenance a “middle road’ position on abortion, Joe mumbled some weak pablum about having to change his position in support women’s rights in the face of increasingly harsh “proposed state laws” which may restrict access to abortion in some states.  But his statement was a classic Trumpian non-sequitor,   since the Hyde Amendment only restricts the disbursement of Federal funds for abortion and would have no impact on the states which Joe references and which can and do provide that service. 

The Hyde Amendment first passed in 1976 ( supported by Rep Henry Hyde) prohibits the Federal Government, through Medicaid and Medicare, from paying for or supporting abortions or abortion procedures, but with some restrictions such as when the pregnancy will endanger the woman’s life or in cases of rape or incest..  The concept of the law is a just one.  Before its enactment it is claimed there were some 300,000 federally paid for abortions per year —afterward, these procedures trickled down to a few thousand.  As we all know so well, when a medical procedure is “free” (i.e. “the government is paying for it”)  it is overused.  

Present polls indicate that approximately 40% of Americans are pro-life and who believe that abortions should  very rare, and used only to save a mother’s life.  There are about 140 million American tax payers who are religiously or morally opposed to the taking of unborn life in the womb—and who support the Hyde Amendment.  To abandon Hyde would mean that the government would be taking tax dollars from these folks and then applying those funds to pay for abortion or pro-abortion procedures for Medicare and Medicaid patients.  It would be forcing these tax payers to PAY FOR and support what they consider is an unconscionable act.  

The Hyde Amendment protects the moral and religious rights of those who as a result of their beliefs, their religion, their conscience or moral precepts can not support the taking of innocent life from a mother’s womb.  

Joe is now in the camp of these anti-life , anti-religious folks.

Sorry Joe, but with this act of betrayal you revealed  yourself to be a weak old-man, unable to stand up to the powerful pressures of the radical fringe in your party.  What moral precepts do you hold that you will not give up?  The concept that you were “the last adult standing in the Democrat Party” was the one and only element of your candidacy that may have made you a viable candidate in  2020.  Now try to win the general election with that millstone hanging around your neck!