New Biden Budget Removes Hyde and other Pro-Life Protections

The fiscal year 2023 budget proposed by the Biden administration would end protections (such as the Hyde Amendment) preventing tax dollars from funding abortions.

The Senate Pro-Life Caucus listed many issues with the proposed budget.

• The budget eliminates the Hyde Amendment, thereby allowing taxpayer funding for abortion through programs such as Medicaid, Medicare, and other programs.

• The budget eliminates the Dornan Amendment. This would allow the District of Columbia to fund abortions through Medicaid.

• By ending the Aderholt Amendment, the federal government will end its ban on gestating gene-edited embryos.

• Title X funding (which includes grants to abortion businesses) would increase from $286.479 million to $400 million.

• Funding for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) would increase from $32.5 million to $56 million. The UNFPA promotes abortion globally.

• This budget creates multiple other avenues through which taxpayer dollars can be used to promote abortion internationally, bypassing longstanding amendments such as the Helms Amendment.

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