"JOE BIDEN WOULD FORCE AMERICANS TO PAY FOR ABORTIONS IF ELECTED PRESIDENT" - Michael Chael New, PH.D, MAR 19, 2020| https://www.lifenews.com/2020/03/19/joe-biden-would-force-americans-to-pay-for-abortions-if-elected-president/ [AS I SEE IT; If you consider yourself pro-life, if you are commited to seeing the unborn protected from abortion, you CANNOT support Joe Biden - or these days almost any member of the Democratic Party. -Stan]
Sanders’s assertion was correct. As a senator, Biden supported the Hyde amendment, although he switched his position last summer during his presidential campaign. Up until recently, supporting Hyde was a common position for Democratic elected officials. Many Democrats felt that abortion should be legal but not funded with federal taxpayer dollars. As a result, since it was first introduced in the 1970s after the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade, the Hyde amendment typically passed both the House and Senate with broad bipartisan support. In fact, during their respective presidencies, both [pro-abortion presidents] Bill Clinton and Barack Obama signed appropriations bills that included the Hyde amendment.
Biden’s attempts during the debate to explain away his past support for the Hyde amendment were misleading. He first attempted to deflect the issue, stating that everyone in Congress at some point voted for the Hyde amendment because it was “locked into other bills.” While this might be technically true, it is not the whole story. There certainly were times when the appropriations bill, which included Hyde language, was combined with other appropriations bills. But there also were other occasions when the appropriations bill that included the Hyde amendment was a standalone bill. During his time in the Senate, Biden consistently chose to support such bills.
Biden’s other explanation for his newfound opposition to Hyde was that if “we’re going to have public funding for health care along the line,” abortion cannot be excluded. As a presidential candidate, Biden has proposed expanding the role of the federal government in health policy, giving individuals the opportunity to purchase a public insurance option like Medicare. He also has proposed premium-free access to the public option for low-income individuals living in states that have not expanded their Medicaid programs. But none of these health-policy proposals require him to oppose the Hyde amendment. One can support expanding the government’s role in health care and still oppose Medicaid coverage of elective abortions.\
During his time in the Senate, Biden consistently opposed using federal taxpayer dollars to pay for abortion. In 1994, he even wrote to a constituent stating that he had voted against federal funding of abortions on no fewer than 50 occasions. However, seeing the leftward shift of the Democratic Party on life issues, Biden announced his opposition to the Hyde amendment last June. This is not the first time a politician has changed his position on a contentious public-policy issue. In the spirit of honesty, Biden should simply admit he switched his position on taxpayer funding for abortion instead of continuing to mislead Democratic primary voters.
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LifeNews Note: Michael J. New is an Associate Professor of Economics at Ave Maria University and an Associate Scholar at the Charlotte Lozier Institute. He is a former political science professor at the University of Michigan–Dearborn and holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University. He is a fellow at Witherspoon Institute in Princeton, New Jersey.
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