Mon Mar 13, 2023 – 5:37 pm EDT
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – The Biden White House has released its proposed budget priorities for fiscal year 2024, which as expected contains several provisions calling for expanded federal funding of abortion on demand.
The budget, which also calls for funding gender transitions for veterans and putting more than $1 billion toward the next pandemic response, calls for repealing the longstanding Hyde Amendment, which forbids most taxpayer dollars from funding abortions except for rape, incest, or threats to a mother’s life; the Dornan Amendment, which prohibits taxpayer funding for abortions in the District of Columbia; and the Aderholt Amendment, which prohibits the creation of gene-edited embryos for medical experimentation, such as three-parent embryos.
It also calls for $512 million for the Title X family planning program, $57.5 million the United Nations Population Fund, and increased spending for other programs used to direct taxpayer dollars to the abortion industry at home and abroad – a fact that Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) is celebrating.
“Amid the abortion access crisis, we need our budgets to reflect our values and support sexual and reproductive health care,” PPFA president and CEO Alexis
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