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Federally funded abortions are in our future

By ADF Alliance Alert

Kathleen Parker writes at the Washington Post: "Now, the president's executive order purports to address this gap by extending the Hyde Amendment to these dollars as well. The problem is that, regardless of Obama's stated intentions, he can't actually do this without an act of Congress. As Dorinda Bordlee, an attorney with the Bioethics Defense Fund, wrote: "If a president could do that, there would be no need to have a majority of Congress pass the Hyde Amendment each and every year to prevent abortion funding using Medicaid dollars for low-income government health care . . . It is telling that the nation's largest abortion provider -- Planned Parenthood -- is claiming 'victory.'"

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on March 30, 2010 (boomark / email).