More pro-life wins from the Trump administration

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The Trump administration continues to advance a pro-life agenda, with two new executive orders in the past week. In vintage Trump fashion, the White House trumpeted these pro-life wins with these words:

“President Donald J. Trump enforces overwhelmingly popular demand to stop taxpayer funding of abortion.”

The Hyde Amendment

The president is reinstating the Hyde Amendment, an amendment that enjoyed bi-partisan support until President Biden rescinded it.

ENFORCING THE HYDE AMENDMENT: On Friday, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to end the use of Federal taxpayer dollars to fund or promote elective abortion.

  • The Order recognizes that, for nearly five decades, Congress has enacted the Hyde Amendment and a series of additional laws to protect taxpayers from being forced to pay for abortion. Contrary to this longstanding commonsense policy, the previous administration embedded federal funding of elective abortion in a wide variety of government programs.

  • To restore this longstanding policy, the Order rescinds two executive orders from President Biden that violate the Hyde Amendment:

    • Executive Order 14076 imposed a whole-of-government effort to promote and fund abortion and to politicize enforcement of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act.

      • Federal statutes protecting access to emergency medical care for pregnant women under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) and protecting personal health information under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) remain in full effect.
    • Executive Order 14079 recategorized abortion as “healthcare” in order to provide taxpayer funding for elective abortions. This included using Medicaid funding to pay for travel costs for elective abortions.

The White House identified ten more pro-life wins achieved by the Trump administration:

  • Reinstated and expanded the Mexico City Policy, ensuring that taxpayer money is not used to fund abortion globally.

  • Issued a rule preventing Title X taxpayer funding from subsiding the abortion industry.

  • Cut all funding to the United Nations Population Fund, which supports coercive abortion and forced sterilization.

  • Signed legislation overturning the previous administration’s regulation that prohibited states from defunding abortion facilities as part of their family planning programs.

  • Fully enforced the separate payment requirement for abortion coverage in Obamacare exchange plans.

  • Stopped the Federal funding of fetal tissue research.

  • Worked to protect healthcare entities and individuals’ conscience rights, ensuring that no medical professional is forced to participate in an abortion in violation of their beliefs.

  • Issued an executive order reinforcing the requirement that all hospitals in the United States provide medical treatment or an emergency transfer for infants who are in need of emergency medical care—regardless of prematurity or disability.

  • Led a coalition of countries to sign the Geneva Consensus Declaration, declaring that there is no international right to abortion and committing to protecting women’s health.

  • First president in history to attend the March for Life.

Good news from Senate confirmation hearings

FBI Director nominee, Kash Patel, announced another pro-life win. He acknowledged that, if confirmed, he will end the targeting of pro-life Americans generally, and Catholics specifically, that occurred in the previous administration. Said Patel:

“There can never a targeting by law enforcement based on people’s faith.”

One of the pro-life’s community’s biggest concerns was the nomination of Robert Kennedy Junior to head the Department of Health and Human Services. This sprawling bureaucracy consumes roughly a quarter of the entire federal government’s budget, providing its Secretary with tremendous clout.

Mr. Kenned has supported the pro-choice position his entire career, but he moderated this position in Senate hearings this week by acknowledging that “every abortion is a tragedy.” He went even further:

“We cannot be a moral nation if we have 1.2 million abortions a year.”

This is a remarkable change of heart for the former Democrat, a party that considers abortion ‘healthcare.’

Mr. Kennedy pledged to honor and implement President Trump’s directive to end taxpayer funding of abortion domestically and abroad. Perhaps more than any previous nominee for HHS, he will address the perils of dangerous abortion drugs, vowing to study the safety of abortion pills.

Can he be trusted? One of the most powerful members of the pro-life community, Marjorie Dannenfelser of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, said she is 

“encouraged by Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s confirmation hearings.”

She added a ‘but,’

“We will not score Kennedy’s nomination in committee or on the Senate floor.”

Pulse hopes that if Kennedy is confirmed (still a big if), he is true to his word to implement the Trump pro-life policies mentioned at the outset of this blogpost.

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