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U.S. Bishops Blast Biden over Reinstatement of Taxpayer-Funded Abortions
The U.S. Bishops’ Conference (USCCB) has condemned President Biden’s reinstatement of taxpayer-funded abortions around the world, calling his act “grievous.”
“It is grievous that one of President Biden’s first official acts actively promotes the destruction of human lives in developing nations,” declare Archbishop Joseph Naumann, chairman of the Bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities, and Bishop David Malloy, chairman of the Committee on International Justice and Peace in a statement.
“This Executive Order is antithetical to reason, violates human dignity, and is incompatible with Catholic teaching. We and our brother bishops strongly oppose this action,” the bishops state.
On Thursday, Biden signed an executive order allowing U.S. taxpayer funds to be sent to organizations that both “promote and provide abortions in developing countries,” revoking the life-saving Mexico City policy, the Bishops say.
The overturned policy had separated abortion from family planning activities and “ensured U.S. taxpayer dollars only went to organizations that agreed to provide health services in a way that respected the dignity of all persons,” the bishops observe.
“We urge the President to use his office for good, prioritizing the most vulnerable, including unborn children,” the bishops add, asserting that the Catholic Church stands ready to work with him to promote global women’s health in a manner that furthers integral human development, and respects the dignity of every human life, “beginning in the womb.”
“To serve our brothers and sisters with respect, it is imperative that care begin with ensuring that the unborn are free from violence, recognizing every person as a child of God,” the bishops conclude. “We hope the new administration will work with us to meet these significant needs.”
The mainstream media have presented President Biden as a “devout Catholic” who takes his faith seriously.
The Catholic Church teaches that abortion is an abominable crime and a sin so grave that the harshest punishment the Church imposes — automatic excommunication — is attached to it.
The Church also teaches that Catholic politicians have a “grave and clear obligation to oppose” any law that promotes abortion.
As Breitbart News reported Thursday, Biden’s executive order came the day after two national polls revealed that a majority of Americans back restrictions on abortion and support a ban on taxpayer funding of abortion overseas and domestically.
By denying the wishes of Americans, Biden is promoting the abortion industry and fulfilling his campaign promise, cited in a Planned Parenthood ad, to do “everything in my power” to defend and expand abortion rights.
Throughout the presidential campaign, left-wing Catholics sought to downplay the importance of the abortion issue in order to persuade their fellow Catholics to vote for Biden, despite the bishops’ insistence that opposition to abortion was the “preeminent priority” in the election.
One papal biographer, Austen Ivereigh, went so far as to call for a “reckoning” against pro-life U.S. Catholics who voted for Donald Trump, claiming that during the four years of Trump’s presidency there was “not a single unborn life saved.”
Unity Watch: Biden's Radical Abortion Policies Alienate Americans, Even Democrats
President Joe Biden promised to unite America, but his week-one slate of executive orders has proven extremely divisive. While Americans are divided on the “pro-life” or “pro-choice” labels, in-depth polling has found broad agreement in favor of policies restricting abortion. Yet Biden’s extreme abortion policies, including funding abortion domestically and overseas with taxpayer dollars, alienates the majority of Americans, and many who identify as Democrats or “pro-choice.”
A new Marist/Knights of Columbus (KOC) poll released Wednesday illustrated just how extreme Biden’s policies truly are.
“Amidst the harsh political divides in our country, clear bipartisan majorities support abortion restrictions and do not want their tax dollars paying for abortion abroad,” Carl Anderson, Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus, said in a statement about the new poll. “Our polling has shown consistently over the past decade that policies that promote abortion on demand paid for by taxpayers are divisive and out of step with American public opinion.”
Indeed, Biden has staked out four abortion policies that fall far outside the mainstream, according to the poll.
1. The Mexico City Policy
On Thursday, President Biden will rescind the Mexico City Policy, which Democrats condemn as the “global gag rule.” The policy prevents U.S. taxpayer dollars from funding non-governmental organizations that perform abortions overseas or advocate for abortion overseas. Yet this policy enjoys broad support among Americans.
A whopping 77 percent of respondents in the Marist/KOC poll said they “oppose” or “strongly oppose” “using tax dollars to support abortion in other countries.” Only 19 percent said they support taxpayer funding for abortion overseas.
Even majorities of self-identified Democrats (55 percent), Biden supporters (58 percent), and pro-choice respondents (64 percent) said they opposed taxpayer funding for abortion overseas.
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2. The Hyde Amendment
The Hyde Amendment prohibits taxpayer funding for abortions in the U.S. While Biden long supported the Hyde Amendment during his decades in the U.S. Senate, he reversed course and opposed the amendment during the 2020 presidential election. Democrats have recently condemned the Hyde Amendment as “racist,” even though many pro-life Democrats have condemned abortion as a “black genocide” since abortion disproportionately kills black unborn babies.
Most respondents (57 percent) in the Marist/KOC poll said they “oppose” or “strongly oppose” “using tax dollars to pay for a woman’s abortion.” Only 38 percent said they support or strongly support taxpayer funding for abortion.
About a third of those who identified as pro-choice (34 percent), Democrat (31 percent), or Biden supporters (31 percent) said they opposed taxpayer funding for abortion.
Most respondents who identified as white (58 percent) or non-white (57 percent) said they opposed taxpayer funding for abortion.
3. Abortion restrictions
Although Biden identifies himself as a practicing Roman Catholic and regularly attends mass, he broadly supports the legal availability of abortion. While Biden has not explicitly said he supports making abortion legal at any stage of pregnancy up until birth, his record suggests that he does. Newsweek and PolitiFact have claimed that Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris do not support abortion up until the moment of birth, but the outlets could not identify statements or policies explicitly limiting abortion to early phases of pregnancy.
Yet most Americans support legal restrictions on abortion at different points in pregnancy, according to the Marist/KOC poll.
Only 15 percent of respondents said, “abortion should be available to a woman any time she wants one during her entire pregnancy.” Most respondents said they would limit abortion to either the first six months of pregnancy (10 percent); the first three months of pregnancy (25 percent); cases of rape, incest, or to save the mother’s life (28 percent); only to save the life of the mother (11 percent). Another 12 percent of respondents said, “abortion should never be permitted under any circumstance.”
This means a whopping 86 percent of Americans support more restrictions on abortion than Biden and Harris.
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4. Roe v. Wade
During the campaign, Biden repeatedly pledged to codify Roe v. Wade (1973), the Supreme Court ruling striking down state laws on abortion, in a law passed by Congress and signed by the president.
Yet according to the Marist/KOC poll, most Americans support returning abortion law to the states.
Marist asked respondents, “Which comes closest to your view of what the Supreme Court should do when it reconsiders Roe vs. Wade, the 1973 ruling making abortion legal in the United States?”
About a third (31 percent) of respondents said the Court should “allow abortion to be legal without restriction at any time.” Nearly half (48 percent) of respondents said the Court should “allow certain restrictions on abortion as determined by each state.” Another 17 percent said the Court should “make abortion illegal.”
Even 42 percent of respondents who identified as “pro-choice” said the Court should allow the states to restrict abortion. Forty percent of self-identified Democrats and 37 percent of Biden supporters agreed.
Democrats like Biden often cite the fact that most Americans identify themselves as “pro-choice.” Yet in-depth abortion polling like this reveals that the Democrats’ pro-abortion platform is radical and out-of-step with a majority of Americans. So much for “unity.”
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