Biden’s 2023 Baby Busting Budget
President Biden’s FY23 budget includes the proposal to eliminate the Hyde amendment, a life-saving law prohibiting the use of taxpayer funds for abortions.
On April 1, 2022, Catholicvote.org published the article titled “What He Values: A Pro-Life Analysis of the Biden Budget.” That article includes a detailed list of the anti-life elements in Biden’s 2023 budget. Your Author has taken the liberty of incorporating the bullet list from this article into a letter addressed to his senators and congressman. Bold face font added to highlight the unmitigated depravity of the collectivist hive known as the Biden Administratiuon.
Dear Senators and Congressman,
President Biden’s FY23 budget includes the proposal to eliminate the Hyde amendment, a life-saving law prohibiting the use of taxpayer funds for abortions. Below is an outline that highlights that issue and other life-related elements of the budget.
A total of $5 million for “implicit bias” training grants for healthcare providers, which could be used to target pro-life providers (pg. 31 of HHS request).
A 72% increase in funding for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) by $23.5 million to $56 million from $32.5 million (pg. 138 of State Dept request). The UNFPA promotes abortions around the world and supports China’s forced abortion and sterilization regime.
Eliminates the Aderholt amendment (pg. 189), which would lift the federal ban on gestating gene-edited embryos, such as three-parent embryos.
Expands taxpayer-funded in-vitro fertilization (IVF) (and other assisted reproductive technologies that destroy human embryos and disregard human dignity) at the VA, to unmarried, single veterans. The expansion will add gestational surrogacy services and the use of third-party gametes (VA request pg. 313).
Increases taxpayer-funding for contraceptives at the VA, including emergency contraceptives and other forms of birth control that can destroy human embryos, by eliminating copays (VA request pg. 314).
Eliminates provisions removing time limitations on embryo storage for IVF procedures funded by the Department of Defense (pg. 325).
A 40% increase in funding for the Title X “family planning” program by $113.521 million, bringing the total to $400 million from $286.479 million (pg. 429). This funding will serve as a slush fund for Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry.
A 10% increase in funding for the teen pregnancy prevention program (TPP) by $10 million for a total of $111 million, up from $101 million (pg. 479). These funds subsidize Planned Parenthood.
Eliminates funding for sexual risk avoidance education ($35 million in FY22-enacted) (pg. 479).
Eliminates the Hyde amendment (pg. 797), allowing, allowing taxpayer funding for abortions-on-demand through Medicaid, Medicare disability, and other programs funded under the Labor / Health and Human Services appropriations bill.
Eliminates the application of the Helms amendment to the Complex Crises Fund (pg. 821), which could allow those funds to pay for abortions.
Adds a sweeping authority for funds “to promote gender equality” overseas, including by “protecting the rights of women and girls worldwide” (pg. 882). This would bypass the Helms amendment and Siljander amendments to allow taxpayer-funding for abortions or abortion lobbying overseas.
Expands the authority for bypassing country prohibitions for child survival / disease programs to include global health activities more broadly, which could also cover contraceptives (pg. 882).
Expands the HIV/AIDS Working Capital Fund (WCF) to include pharmaceuticals and other products for global health activities broadly, including contraceptive commodities and, via funds from non-U.S. Government donors, potentially abortion-related commodities (pg. 877).
Decreases the funding floor earmark for international family planning / reproductive health (FP/RH) by $3 million (0.5%) to $572 million from $575 million (pg. 916). That would be a welcome development on its own. The earmark is a slush fund for international pro-abortion organizations, including International Planned Parenthood and Marie Stopes International. However, USAID is requesting that all of these funds go through the Global Health Programs (GHP) account – a $48.05 million increase over the $523.950 million provided in that account for FP/RH in FY22 – instead of allowing some of these funds to be awarded through the Economic Support Fund (ESF) account (pg. 84 of State Dept. request). Pro-abortion groups have sought to shift the annual $51.05 million allotment of the FP/RH earmark within the ESF account over to the GHP account to allow USAID bureaucrats more flexibility to give funds directly to NGOs in the abortion industry since the ESF allocations typically go to the governments of U.S. friends and allies.
Eliminates the Dornan amendment (pg. 1244), which would allow the District of Columbia to fund abortions through its Medicaid program. When the Dornan amendment was last gutted in fiscal year 2010, D.C. funded 300 abortions through Medicaid.
Given the above, please introduce legislation to amend the US Tax Code to give taxpayers a choice. Specifically, include a check box on tax forms where taxpayers who oppose these measures can obtain a tax reduction. The tax reduction should be proportional to placing the burden on those in favor of these anti-life measures. As a guide, 54% of the people support the Hyde Amendment.
Lastly, please explain how each item in the bullet list comports to the Constitution.
I look forward to your reply.
Respectfully,
/s/
Frederick R. Smith
Reference:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/appendix/
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/appendix_fy2023.pdf
Update 1: May 14, 2022
Insulting letter from my congressman.
Cogent author and publisher, Frederick R. Smith
Biden’s 2023 Baby Busting Budget
Everyday becomes more evil. Thanks for the information,I will pass it on. My son goes to medical school at Michigan State University and had a lecture on birth control/ fertility ect. The female lecturer discussed pro life, and got reported to the dean by a bunch of woke medical students.