On Thursday, the full House Appropriations committee will be taking up the Labor, Health and Human Services bill. For the first time in over 40 years, the bipartisan Hyde Amendment was absent from the annual government spending bill. Additionally, pro-life members continue to
rally around the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act (H.R. 18), which would make the Hyde Amendment permanent and government wide. Finally, I am including information to encourage members of Congress to sign the amicus brief in Dobbs v. Jackson.
1. Taxpayer-Funded Abortion - House Appropriations - action THURSDAY
2. Amicus Brief for Members of Congress - Dobbs v. Jackson
1. Taxpayer-Funded Abortion - House Appropriations - action THURSDAY
The fight to stop taxpayer-funded abortion and save the Hyde Amendment faces a critical vote in committee this coming Thursday, July 12. Pro-abortion President Biden and the Democrat congressional leadership have committed publicly to ending the Hyde Amendment and reestablishing taxpayer funding of
abortion.
An Action Alert on Hyde can be found HERE , along with more
resources and talking points at www.nrlc.org/hyde
Please follow us on social media this coming Thursday to highlight the Hyde Amendment and taxpayer-funded abortion. We also anticipate a press release that day.
In addition, members of Congress have been rallying around the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act (H.R. 18) which would make the Hyde Amendment permanent and government wide. We have been posting videos, floor speeches, and reprinting remarks—as well as including
information you can use to highlight the critical fight to stop taxpayer-funded abortion.
The House needs only a simple majority to advance the appropriations package. However, the 60-vote threshold for passing spending bills in the Senate means that the fight to save Hyde and prevent taxpayer-funded abortion will depend a great deal on pro-life senators holding firm
against voting for any final appropriations package that doesn’t contain the pro-life language.
September 30th is the deadline for funding the government, at which point a stopgap measure would be necessary to keep the government open.
2. Amicus Brief for Members of Congress - Dobbs v. Jackson
Currently, the amicus brief for members of Congress in the Dobbs v. Jackson case, led by the Mississippi Congressional delegation and Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), is circulating on the Hill.
We are encouraging members to sign onto the brief and the deadline is July 26, 2021 at COB. To sign-on, staff must fill out this google
form.
Brief Outline:
Three decades after Casey, the Supreme Court has failed to clarify the meaning of the viability line or provide reliable guidance on its role in the standard of review.
As a result of this ambiguity, federal courts increasingly perceive the viability line as a categorical prohibition on the regulation of abortion, inhibiting elected lawmakers from furthering critical state interests on behalf of the
people.
The Courts’ perception of the viability line as a categorical prohibition hamstrings the states from bringing critical evidence into court on the real risks of abortion, its use as a tool of eugenics and gender discrimination, and the barbaric nature of late-term
abortion.
The States have numerous critical interests in regulating abortion that arise in the first half of pregnancy, the period currently tied up in the Casey viability standard.
a. The viability standard hinders states from protecting women from greatly increased physical risks that accompany later-term abortion procedures.
b. The viability standard hinders states from protecting infants in the second trimester and above from the pain suffered during the abortion procedure.
c. The viability standard hinders states from protecting the medical profession and the public from the horror of dismemberment abortion.
d. The viability standard hinders states from protecting children diagnosed with Down syndrome and other developmental disabilities from being aborted.
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Founded in 1968, the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the federation of 50 state right-to-life affiliates and more than 3,000 local chapters, is the nation's oldest and largest grassroots
pro-life organization. Recognized as the flagship of the pro-life movement, NRLC works through legislation and education to protect innocent human life from abortion, infanticide, assisted suicide and euthanasia.
Involved in every election since Ronald Reagan’s election to the presidency, National Right to Life Political Action Committee was formed in 1979 as the political arm of National Right to Life. The National Right to Life Victory Fund, an independent expenditure political action committee founded in 2012, is dedicated to electing
pro-life leaders to the White House and Congress.
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