Democrats blast Republicans after budget includes anti-choice restrictions and endorses a national abortion ban with zero exceptions for rape or incest.
Last week, the Republican Study Committee, which represents 100% of House Republican leadership and nearly 80% of their members, after releasing a budget last week that – among its many other anti-choice restrictions – endorses a national abortion ban with zero exceptions for rape or incest.
Democrats highlighted that the Republican Study Committee budget:
- Supports eliminating reproductive freedom for all women in every state and puts IVF treatment squarely on the chopping block through House Republicans’ support for the Life at Conception Act.
- Endorses banning mifepristone – an FDA-approved, safe and effective medication that has been on the market for more than 20 years.
- Supports rolling back policies that help ensure the nation’s Veterans have access to abortion care when their health or lives are at risk or in cases of rape or incest.
- Guts funding for contraception, which is supported by the vast majority of Americans on both sides of the aisle, for low-income and uninsured women. Democrats say this would further erode access to essential health care, from cancer screening to primary care, at a time when state abortion bans have already forced health clinics that provide contraception and other critical health services to close.
Democrats are campaigning saying that if House Republicans get their way, all of these proposals would become the law of the land.
The Democratic message argues that when the Supreme Court, full of justices nominated by President Donald Trump, overturned Roe v. Wade and “allowed politicians to intrude in the most personal decisions women and families can make,” it paved the road for Republican elected officials to pursue their extreme agenda. Democrats say the latest budget advances that extreme agenda.
Republican elected officials have already imposed abortion bans in 21 states and last year, they introduced more than 380 state bills attacking access to reproductive health care. According to Democrats, the Republican Study Committee budget makes clear conservatives won’t stop until a national abortion ban is in place.
President Joe Biden has been clear on the issue that he will fight back and protect reproductive health from “extreme attacks” by Republicans. He is campaigning saying that he will continue to call on Congress to restore the protections of Roe v. Wade into federal law so that women can make their own health care decisions.
The Florida Democratic Party is also planning to make abortion rights and the upcoming constitutional amendment ballot initiative a priority in outreach to voters.
What is wrong with these people? The national polls have shown that they are not working, if you can call what they are doing as working, in the interest of what their constituents believe is the right thing to do. Sooner or later the voting public has to wake up to the fact that when you allow your government representatives to be radical evangelicals, they do not work toward the betterment of you or your community. They are pushing a religious based agenda. If you continue to let them legislate religiously base laws, sooner or later you are going to end up living in a Taliban or ISIS based world.