A Nation Without the Hyde Amendment Will Be Safer and More Humane for All of Us

[ShazzieB]

1. Thr Hyde Amendment exists because forced birthers don't want their tax money spent on abortions.

What I don't get is, why do they get to dictate what any of their tax money is spent on when no one else does? Sure, there are avenues open to all of us: voting for pro-choice candidates, donating to their campaigns and working to help get them elected. But nowhere else that I know of is there a line item veto like this for a specific thing that some people object to.

When my taxes were used to fight a bogus war in Iraq, I didn't have any say in the matter. Same thing with Vietnam (although most of that took place before I was of voting age or paying much in the way of taxes). It didn't matter that I objected to the killing in those and other places. Forced birthers who don't want to pay for abortion care (because they consider that "killing" despite what the rest of us think) should not get to dictate what the government does in this area, either.

Grrr, this makes me so mad! If they want to scream about "killing babies," I can show them pictures of actual babies and children who were killed in wars paid for by my tax dollars and yours and theirs. The most famous one I know of, from Vietnam, was made into a poster that many carried in protests against the Vietnam war. It shows a pile of small bodies with the caption "And babies? And babies." I won't post it here because it's very disturbing and I don't want to smack people in the face with it, but anyone who is curious (and has a strong stomach) can see it and read about it here: https://www.redlineartworks.org/section652294_311497.html

I first saw it at a street protest, but I personally find it harder to look at something like that on a computer screen, where it's right up in my face. If you decide to go look, don't say I didn't warn you.

When American tax dollars are spent on useless wars, nobody gets to opt out of having their money spent on them. But the rest of us are supposed to be okay with a law like the Hyde amendment that prevents needy Americans from being able to access needed health care? Hell, no! This law needs to go, immediately if not sooner.