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13-year-old ban on federal funding for Washington D.C., abortions,
called the Dornan Amendment, has failed to pass the full House
Appropriations Committee, by a vote of 26-33. "We
now see taxpayer dollars going to fund abortions in the District of
Columbia if this becomes law," said U.S. Rep. Todd Tiahrt, R-Kan., who
led in the effort to restore the amendment. "And it's very likely it
will become law."
Any maybe not the only anti-life law. Life advocates expect
pro-abortion Democrat members of the House to target other existing
amendments such as the Hyde Amendment and the Dickey-Wicker Amendment.
The Hyde Amendment prohibits taxpayer funding of abortion except in
cases of rape, incest or life of the mother; and the Dickey-Wicker
amendment prohibits taxpayer funding of the destruction of human
embryos for research.
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