The Republicans claim they are concerned about government spending, and usethe excuse of cuts in Medicaid for the poor as one means to accomplish this; andthat includes federally funded contraception and abortions.
So in theory, the Republicans are encouraging more poor women to multiple by denyingthem the means of preventing unwanted children, but at the same time, alsodenying them the means of supporting those children by making more cuts towelfare and food stamps to those who can't afford to raise children.
What would happen if instead, millions of unwanted children were leftabandoned and made wards of the state? Wouldn't it cost the taxpayers far muchmore to pay adoption agencies 18 years for each child? That's how the GOP presidential candidateMichele Bachmann profited from raising 23 foster children.
The Hyde Amendment bars the use of federal funds to pay for abortions, withsome exceptions for incest and rape. The amendment applies only to funds allocated by the annual appropriations bill for the Department of Health and HumanServices -- and it primarily affects Medicaid.
The Hyde Amendment, which has been routinely attached to annual appropriations bills since 1976,was named for its chief sponsor, Republican Congressman Henry Hyde of Illinois. The measure was a response to theSupreme Court 1973 case Roe v. Wade that legalized abortions.
Opponents of the amendment assert that it unfairly targets low-income women because the amendment effectivelyends the provision of abortions through Medicaid.
Proponents of the amendment assert that using federal funds for abortions is against their religious beliefs, and crosses the linebetween church and state. But for many other Americans, "thou shall not kill" is also against theirreligious beliefs, such as the deathly penalty for capital crimes.
And many people also believe that their co-mingled federal tax dollars should notbe used to fund illegal wars that are waged by Republican presidents, resultingin the tragic death and/or dismemberment of hundreds of thousands of young Americans.
And after our Veterans (heroes) come home from serving our country in bloodywars, the Republicans in Congress (many who are draft dodgers themselves) wouldrather cut funding to G.I. benefits (first) before they would everconsider thinking about taking a small cut in their own $174,000 annual congressionalsalary --- to make a noble and "shared sacrifice" for the good of thecountry.
As an aside: Why do we even pay members of Congress like Darrell Issa, whohas a net worth of $450 million --- just to have him vote against the majorityof the American people's will and their best interests --- such as the fundingfor Medicaid and ObamaCare®?
But I digress. Although Roe v. Wade technically makes abortions legal and constitutional, Republicans have forced their religious beliefs andideologies upon others who don't share the Republican's short-sighted, radicaland Neanderthal views.
And on a State level, besides just financially, the Republicans are also making abortions as difficult as possiblefor women to obtain (such as using shame, intimidation, ultrasounds, ostracizationand threats. Some deranged private citizens have even murdered pro-choicecitizens.)
The Republican-dominatedgerrymandered House of Representatives in Congress has already passed a recordnumber of anti-abortion bills just since 2010, even while knowing full well in advancethat none of them would ever pass the Senate. The GOP has been wasting an enormousamount of precious U.S. taxpayer dollars on hours of these wasted legislativeefforts in Congress -- including the repealing ObamaCare. Yet, theRepublicans are constantly and hypocritically complaining about governmentspending (whichis actually down).
Many Republican-dominated state legislatures have passed state laws and "personhood" bills to make access to abortion asdifficult a s possible, especially for low income women who don't have access to any other healthcare insurance besidesMedicaid.
Some states only have one clinic throughout the entire state that offer abortions, and are hundreds of miles away from lowincome women without cars or who can't afford or physically access a bus for a long round-trip journey.
Most of the Republicans who initially won legislative seats, didn't campaign on limited access to abortions (or union busting ordistrict gerrymandering). But once elected, they passed many of these unpopular measures against the majority of the People's will.
The Hyde Amendment is a tool that the Republicans use to circumvent many women's constitution rights. But the Republicansdon't care. If they could, they would rule like dictators, while at the same time, preaching God and country and thevalues and virtues of our Founding Fathers (even though many were slave owners, adulterersand atheists).
Now, because the Republicans are falling out of favor with the majority of theAmerican people, they are now planning more voter suppression laws and changesto the electoral college to help "fix" the next cycle of elections in their favor.
The Republicans have no dignity, no heart, no compassion, no empathy, no sense of fair play, no kindnessand most importantly, no soul. They are the party of hate, womanizers, racism, bigotry, anger,ignorance, evolution deniers, birthers, selfishness, insecurity, conspiracytheorists, lies, deception and cheating.
Republican politicians only care about themselves, their immediate friendsand families, and the people who fund their political campaigns -- getting money fromthe big banks, big corporations and Washington D.C. lobbyists on K Street --like the NRA.
And that is another reason why Citizens United should be overturned-- and why we should have publicly funded elections. That way, the next time amember of our self-serving Congress goes on one of their many annual vacations, they won't be beholden to a CEO on the other side of thecountry, but instead, will only have to answer to the average people who work and live in theircongressional districts.
The Republicans claim to value life, but once poor women begin having lots of babies, the Republicans will tell these samewomen that they are all on their own. The GOP won't support the funding of birth control to keeppoor women from having any unwanted pregnancies in the first place.
And the GOP won't support an equal pay bill to help raise these poor children after they are born;and the GOP won't support a higher minimum hourly wage to help mom raise her kids;and the GOP won't support Planned Parenthood for the health of these women; and the GOP won't support TANF and food stamps for these moms andtheir children; and the GOP will always attempt to cut the funding to Medicaid and ObamaCare for the health and welfare of these poor women and children.
The Hyde Amendment should have been named the Jekyll and HydeAmendment, because it is a sinister bill that's meant to harm poor and mostly minority women. But the Republicans will never admitto that. They'll just say the bill it based on their religious beliefs. (Yeah, right.As though the Republicans were really so Christian and "holy-like").
But the Hyde Amendment did do one good thing. It helpedchanged the demographics of the electorate, watering down the Republican's evershrinking voting block. All the unwanted children who were forced to grow up in poverty,and were raised hearing the Republicans call them "takers" all theirlives, can also vote when they turn 18 years old.
Pictured Below - Republican Congressman Darrell Issa* chairs the House Oversight Committee holding a hearing to "investigate" PresidentObama's regulation on women's contraception.
What's missing? Women.
* According to his bio atWikipedia, Republican Congressman Darrell Issa was guilty of illegal firearmpossession, repeated grand theft auto, arson and insurance fraud -- and now hehas a net worth of $450 million.
The Watchdog Institute accused Issa (as leader of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform) of building a team with close connections to industries that could benefit fromIssa's many "investigations". The American Family Voices filed a complaint with the Office of Congressional Ethics againstIssa alleging he had repeatedly used his public office for personal financial gain.
In the photo above, one can easily imagine him as a sinister member of themafia. Republican Congressman Darrell Issa made his vast fortune in securityalarms, but lastyear his home was burglarized. Was that more insurance fraud?
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