Senate Democrats have proposed a plan to pay liberal groups $1.75 billion in federal tax funds so women may be trafficked across state lines for abortions.
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The “Reproductive Health Travel Fund Act”, proposed by Sens. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., and Patty Murray, D-Wash., provides $350 million a year over five years in federal grants to liberal organizations to traffick women across state lines to get abortions that are illegal in their states, after the United States Supreme Court ruled this year that abortion was not a constitutional right.
Even after the ruling, states like Texas and Florida have abortion laws more permissive than many European countries.
It is currently a violation of federal law to provide tax dollars for abortion. The scheme does not pay for the procedure itself but pays for travel, meals, lodging, post-abortion medical care, foreign language translation services and, ironically, child care.
The scheme is co-sponsored by Senators Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., Tina Smith, D-Minn., Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii. Another version of the bill was introduced in the U.S. House in July.
It is also backed by the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice, Power to Decide, National Network of Abortion Funds, Physicians for Reproductive Health, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, National Partnership for Women and Families, NARAL, Center for Reproductive Rights, National Women’s Law Center, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association, Catholics for Choice, the National Council of Jewish Women, Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin and WMF Wisconsin.
It is one of several schemes by congressional Democrats to use federal tax dollars to evade state laws on abortions.
One proposed plan turns military bases, which are not under the jurisdiction of state law, into federally-run abortion clinics. Along those lines, the Biden Defense Department announced they would give paid time off to service members seeking abortions.
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren has even proposed turning national parks into “abortion camps,” with abortions performed in the woods in tents.
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