(Tony Sifert, Headline USA) The $1.5 trillion omnibus spending bill that Congress passed last week includes $286 million in “family planning” funding, millions of which will go to Planned Parenthood, according to the Catholic News Agency.
The omnibus includes 13.6 billion for Ukraine, keeps COVID spending alive, funds planned parenthood, makes inflation worse via deficit-financed gov spending & green energy.
No effort to fix. inflation, our supply chain or to secure our borders.
@HerreraBeutler voted for it.
— Joe Kent for WA-3 (@joekent16jan19) March 11, 2022
According to the text of the bill, Congress has distributed $286,479,000 for the “carrying out the program under title X of the PHS Act to provide for voluntary family planning projects.”
While pro-lifers are celebrating the fact that the Hyde Amendment remains in tact and that the funding cannot be used directly to fund abortions, Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, argued that the omnibus bill amounts to an abortion “slush fund.”
“Nancy Pelosi’s House of Representatives passed a $1.5 trillion spending package that included — among other obscene provisions — some highly lucrative kickbacks to Democrats’ friends in the abortion industry,” Rep. Roy wrote.
“Democrats nevertheless found ways to funnel cash to the abortion lobby, to the tune of millions of dollars, while dodging the protection of pro-life riders,” he added.
While the Hyde Amendment prevents federal money from funding abortion, Roy argued that “keeping the lights on” at Planned Parenthood freed up the abortion-factory’s resources for its only real purpose — murdering babies in the womb.
Roy went on to point out that the bill also includes $32.5 million for the United Nations Population Fund and $200 million for a new Gender Equity and Equality Action Fund — money that will in both cases “go toward promoting abortion across the globe.”
One of the many rotten Easter eggs in the Omnibus bill: “Women’s Global Development and Prosperity Fund” has been replaced by “Gender Equity and Equality Action.” That’s a $200 million item. IOW, a massive global slush fund to promote abortion and gender ideology. pic.twitter.com/0rHzwooZwS
— Jay W. Richards (@DrJayRichards) March 10, 2022
“The American people need to say “enough” and stop funding violent tyranny over the lives of the unborn,” Roy concluded.
