Thread by @SBAList

🧵This evening the Energy & Commerce Committee is marking up the $3.5 trillion dollar reconciliation bill that includes massive expansions for health funding that would force taxpayers to fund abortions

Thankfully, @HouseCommerce Republicans are fighting back:

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"Abortion is inhumane… My challenge is for us to be warriors of human dignity. I urge my colleagues to join me & save the Hyde Amendment."

@cathymcmorris shares how the Dem bill will force those buying the proposed plans to pay for coverage that includes abortion on demand.

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.@RepBuddyCarter offers a passionate defense of the Hyde Amendment which protects the lives of living human babies. He shares how abortion is a human rights abuse and should not be subsidized by taxpayers

#HydeSavesLives

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Whip @SteveScalise reminds his Dem colleagues that for decades in the Senate, Joe Biden used to be deeply committed to the principle that no one should be forced to pay for abortion.

The pro-abortion extremism of today's Democratic party is a recent phenomenon

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"While I'm personally pro-life, we are not debating the issue of abortion here - all we're saying is that taxpayers should not have to pay for it." - @DrNealDunnFL2

#HydeSavesLives

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"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government." - Thomas Jefferson

@RepJohnJoyce points out this principle is precisely why we need Hyde protections in the spending bill #HydeSavesLives

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"You knit me together in my mother’s womb..."

Rep. @RepWalberg quotes Psalm 139 as he shares why Americans who believe in the sanctity of life should never be forced to pay to end the precious lives of unborn children

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.@USRepGaryPalmer honors the moms who make tough decisions when facing a difficult pregnancy and the families who keep children with unexpected diagnoses like Down syndrome

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.@RepGusBilirakis shares about his close friends who are abortion survivors, and whose lives are no less valuable than any others. He asks his Dem colleagues: After decades of agreement that no one should be forced to pay for abortion, what has changed?

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.@RepDLesko shares the science of the humanity of unborn children at every stage of fetal development, concluding: We shouldn't be forced to financially support their destruction. #FollowTheScience

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Excellent point by @RepDanCrenshaw: In any difficult or unplanned pregnancy, there are hard choices to make and many things to factor in - but the reality that the baby is ALIVE has to be the most important factor

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.@RepJeffDuncan shares from the many hardworking taxpayers he represents in #SC03 who don't want the government confiscating their hard-earned money to pay for abortion

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Vote on Rep. @cathymcmorris' amendment applying Hyde protections to the ACA portion of the spending bill fails on a party line vote.

Every single Democrat member of the Energy & Commerce Committee voted to force taxpayers to pay for abortions.

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