CV NEWS FEED // Leaders of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) condemned the House’s passage of a large spending bill without customary pro-life protections like the Hyde Amendment, which prevents taxpayer funding of most abortions. The bishops also urged the Senate to correct the “evil” by refusing to pass bills that don’t include such provisions. In their statement, the USCCB named the Hyde Amendment and the Weldon Amendment, which prevents states from discriminating against health plans that refuse to cover abortions. The House scuttled both amendments in the passage of the bill. “The House has voted in a way that is completely out of step with the will of the American people who overwhelmingly oppose taxpayer-funded abortion,” wrote Cardinal Timothy Dolan, chairman of the USCCB’s Committee for Religious Liberty, and Archbishop Joseph Naumann, chairman of the USCCB’s Committee on Pro-Life Activities: The Hyde Amendment has saved at least 2.4 million lives since its enactment. Without it, millions of poor women in desperate circumstances will make the irrevocable decision to take the government up on its offer to end the life of their child.
Bishops Denounce Forcing Taxpayers to Fund Abortion – CatholicVote org
Bishops Denounce Forcing Taxpayers to Fund Abortion – CatholicVote org
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