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In annual appropriations bills
since 1976, Democrats routinely have united with Republicans in passing the
Hyde Amendment, which simply prevents taxpayer monies from funding abortions
except in cases of rape or incest or to save the life of the mother. Americans
overwhelmingly oppose opening public coffers to the abortion industry.
Nevertheless, Democrats
increasingly have been injecting abortion partisanship into human trafficking
programs. Congressional hearings revealed how Obama administration officials denied a grant to a faith-based organization
over abortion and other morally objectionable issues.
Many would note that abortion
would only add to the trauma that human trafficking victims have already
experienced. Yet even the Hyde Amendment does not disallow government-funded
abortions in cases of rape, nor does it prevent abortions paid for with
nongovernment funds. So protests over the Hyde Amendment in this
trafficking-victims program are little more than partisan politics designed to
enforce a radical abortion ideology.
Jonathan Imbody, Ashburn
The writer is vice president for
government relations for the Christian Medical Association.
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