[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 186 (Friday, October 22, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H5823]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                       RESTORE THE HYDE AMENDMENT

  (Mr. WENSTRUP asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WENSTRUP. Madam Speaker, there comes a time to dispel the myth 
that we must choose between women's rights and children's rights. Now 
is the time because we can protect both.
  Sadly, abortion reveals society's inability to love, to protect, and 
to care for the most innocent and helpless among us.
  When we devalue life, our society suffers. When we deem some to be 
nonessential, we devalue their lives.
  I am strongly pro-life, and I consistently stand up for the rights of 
the unborn and the born.
  Our society is willing to and does care for the mother in need. 
Perhaps she is scared and alone. Americans across the country reach out 
to help mothers and the children that they are nourishing in their 
wombs.
  I must rise today to express my grave concern that our Democrat 
colleagues' proposed spending bill lacks crucial protections that 
ensure that taxpayer funds do not pay for abortions.
  Without this protection, taxpayer-funded abortions not only harm us 
as a society but violate the religious freedoms of thousands of 
Americans.
  The longstanding, bipartisan Hyde amendment ensures just that, that 
taxpayer funds do not go toward abortion. However, the Democrats' 
currently proposed multitrillion-dollar build back broke plan does not 
contain those lifesaving protections.
  In 1994, then-Senator Joe Biden wrote, ``Those of us who are opposed 
to abortion should not be compelled to pay for them.''
  In God we trust.

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