Haven’t heard about the Hyde Amendment? Blame the networks!
For 40 years, the Hyde Amendment has protected taxpayer money from funding abortions. The provision has saved as many as 2 million children, but as the 2016 presidential election progresses, liberals are working harder than ever to repeal it.
On this week’s AlliKat Show, Newsbusters reporters Alli Nielsen and Kat Yoder expose the dishonest feminist attacks on Hyde. And the network blackout on the amendment.
“ABC, NBC, and CBS haven’t said the words ‘Hyde Amendment’ once in the past five years” Kat revealed.
Despite the networks’ censorship, Hyde should be in the news cycle. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has said she would work to repeal it, and the new Democratic Party Platform approved at the DNC also promised to “oppose” and “overturn” Hyde.
“Planned Parenthood received more than $553 million last year alone in government funding!” Kat argued. “And that’s not counting the billions of dollars they get from people like Warren Buffett, George Soros, and Bill and Melinda Gates.”
But liberals still aren’t satisfied.
“For all the liberal talk of diversity and tolerance, they show none of it for the pro-life movement!” Alli urged. Their radical pro-abortion stance is even alienating Democrats.
The law forbids the use of taxpayer dollars for abortion, except in the cases of rape, incest, or to save a mother’s life. Hyde protects conservative taxpayers from “being forced by the government to pay for something we think is morally wrong,” Kat explained.
Feminist media ignore that.
Last week, a Cosmopolitan headline accused the Hyde amendment of “Hurting Women for 40 Years.”
Repealing Hyde, the writer said, is “about making sure a woman who’s made the profound decision to end her pregnancy gets the care she needs” and “about compassion and respect.”
In 2013, feminist writer Jill Filipovic praised abortion for helping “put women on the path to escaping” domestic violence and abuse, and bashed Hyde as “perhaps the most harmful restriction” on abortion.
In a story written for Glamour Magazine, NARAL board member Renee Bracey Sherman called Hyde “a discriminatory policy” that “den[ies] people the choice of what to do with their pregnancies.”
Slate staff writer Christina Cauterucci called Hyde an “archetypal example of legislators using poor women’s bodies as political battlegrounds.”
“Abortion care is health care,” she argued. “Doctors provide it, many private health insurance plans cover it, and the law says women must have access to it.”
The President and CEO of the liberal, pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute, took to The Huffington Post to complain about, “The Harmful And Unjust Hyde Amendment.”
Her grievances against Hyde included women being “forced to carry their unwanted pregnancy to term.” (“Pregnancy.” Not “baby.”)
Even teens are targeted. A Teen Vogue writer attacked Hyde for supposedly dealing a “devastating blow to low-income and women of color” that drives them “deeper into poverty.”
Alli concluded that liberals are set on “forcing conservatives to take part in the murder of millions of innocent children.” And they have the feminist media to back them.
Click here to watch Alli and Kat’s last episode on the gender wage gap!
