The Democrats’ $1.9 trillion covid relief bill passed by the Senate on Saturday includes millions of dollars for the abortion industry.
Over the objections of Republicans and pro-life groups, Democrats included $50 million in funding for Planned Parenthood in the so-called American Rescue Plan Act, which critics say provides little funding for actual covid relief.
Republicans’ efforts to apply the Hyde Amendment to the legislation was defeated by Democrats, meaning that the “federal funding may be used to cover abortions in a break with last year’s novel coronavirus spending,” Valerie Richardson noted in a March 7 report for The Washington Times.
The Hyde Amendment, which dates back to 1976, prohibits federal dollars from being used to fund most abortions.
