Landry Urges Congress to
Protect Hyde Amendment
BATON ROUGE, LA – Attorney General Jeff Landry joined 21
other state attorneys general urging Congress to maintain the Hyde Amendment,
which prohibits federal funds for abortions and has been included in the
federal budget for the last 45 years.
“Despite his decades-long opposition to taxpayer-funded abortions, Joe
Biden has removed such protection from his recently proposed budget,” said
Attorney General Landry. “Biden’s flip-flop is yet another reckless concession
to the Radical Left - one that forces taxpayers to fund the deaths of innocent
babies.”
In a letter to Congressional leadership, Attorney General
Landry and his colleagues call on Congress to resist the President's efforts
and include the Hyde Amendment in this year’s federal budget.
“The Hyde Amendment was first enacted in 1976 following the United States
Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade, and has been reenacted every year
since with broad bipartisan support,” Landry’s letter states. “The key to the
Hyde Amendment's four-and-a-half-decades longevity is that its purpose is clear
and commonsensical: it prohibits the use of federal funds for abortions (with
exceptions), on the basis that a great many taxpayers object to abortion on
moral or religious grounds and, therefore, it is unconscionable to force them
to pay for abortions by using their tax dollars for that purpose. Congress
should resist following President Biden down this path and should instead
maintain the Hyde Amendment language in the budget it ultimately passes.”
Attorney General Landry is joined in this effort by the attorneys general from
Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas,
Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South
Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and West Virginia.