Title: 2020 Dems' stances abortion: Unjust and ignorant | TheHill
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Content: And even fewer — only 12 percent — support using federal tax dollars to fund abortions at any stage. The veil has been lifted on the Democratic Party’s 1996 statements describing abortion as a “difficult issue” we should make “less necessary” and “more rare”. Though the Democratic Party platform has long been in favor of abortion, in 2016, the Democrats adopted radical language promising to “oppose — and seek to overturn — federal and state laws and policies that impede a woman’s access to abortion, including by repealing the Hyde Amendment,” a law which prevents federal tax dollars from paying for abortions that has passed Congress with bipartisan support every year since it was first enacted in 1976. This month, on March 12, 2019, the Senate introduced a bill to reverse Hyde and force any federal health program to directly pay for abortions. This effort to reverse Hyde goes against the majority of Americans’ views, given that nearly two-thirds of Americans oppose their tax dollars paying for abortion. The 2020 Democratic candidates have fallen in line with their party. Instead of responding to the American electorate, which is increasingly concerned with our country’s anti-life ideology, they answer to their financial backers: pro-abortion groups like Planned Parenthood and its political arms. Sen. Cory Booker
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