For nearly fifty years, the Hyde amendment has received bipartisan support as a national policy to ensure that U.S. taxpayers did not pay for abortions. Hyde-related policies have
been consistently applied in other federal programs to protect the vulnerable at home, abroad, in research, and to protect the conscience rights of medical providers who object to abortions.
But despite the broad bipartisan consensus and the national federal support for these policies, House Democrats have for the first time passed spending bills without them, raising the possibility that millions of Americans who are deeply and profoundly opposed to abortion will find their tax dollars used to subsidize the practice.
Over 100 leaders of the conservative movement have signed a letter urging all conservatives, and anyone who values the sanctity and dignity of human life from conception until natural death, to oppose spending legislation which does not contain the Hyde amendment and key related pro-life policies.
Text of the letter and list of signers follows:
July 20, 2021
Washington, DC
Conservatives believe that the sanctity of human life, including the value of every child, should be honored and protected by our laws. We are deeply opposed to efforts to strip the Hyde amendment and other long-standing pro-life provisions from federal law.
For nearly fifty years, the Hyde amendment has received bipartisan support as a national policy to ensure that U.S. taxpayers did not pay for abortions. Hyde-related policies have been consistently applied in other federal programs to protect the vulnerable at home, abroad, in research, and to protect the conscience rights of medical providers who object to abortions.
Over decades, both Democrat and Republican presidents have signed these protections into law – protections that were, for years, supported by President Biden in the United States Senate.
But despite the broad bipartisan consensus and the national federal support for these policies, House Democrats have for the first time passed spending bills without them, raising the possibility that millions of Americans who are deeply and profoundly opposed to abortion will find their tax dollars used to subsidize the practice.
The Hyde amendment and its related policies are estimated to have saved the lives of 2.4 million babies since its inception. Revoking the Hyde amendment, and upending the bipartisan consensus that has supported its application, is a drastic step that shreds any vestige or pretense that Democrats are anything but radically pro-abortion.
We urge all conservatives, and anyone who values the sanctity and dignity of human life from conception until natural death, to oppose spending legislation which does not contain the Hyde amendment and key related pro-life policies.
The Honorable Edwin Meese III
Attorney General
President Ronald Reagan (1985-1988)
Penny Y. Nance
President & CEO
Concerned Women for America
Thomas E. McClusky
President
March for Life Action
Thomas Fitton
President, Judicial Watch, Inc.
President, Council for National Policy
Ed Corrigan
Vice Chairman, Conservative Action Project and President & CEO, Conservative Partnership Institute
Myron Ebell
Director, Center for Energy and Environment, Competitive Enterprise Institute
Rachel A. Bovard
Senior Director of Policy
Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI)
Star Parker
Founder and President
Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE)
The Honorable Russ Vought
Director, Office of Management and Budget (2020-2021)
Mary Vought
Executive Director
Senate Conservatives Fund
Terry Schilling
Executive Director
American Principles Project
Lori Roman
President, American Constitutional Rights Union (ACRU)
Wesley Denton
Chief Operating Officer
Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI)
Scott T. Parkinson
Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin (Ret.)
Executive Vice President
Family Research Council
The Honorable J. Kenneth Blackwell
Chairman, Constitutional Congress
Chairman, CNP Action, Inc.
The Honorable Brooke Rollins
President and CEO
America First Policy Institute (AFPI)
Anne Schlafly Cori
Chairman
Eagle Forum
Michael Farris
President & CEO
Alliance Defending Freedom
The Honorable Tim Huelskamp, Ph.D.
Congressman (retired)
1st District of Kansas
The Honorable Gary L. Bauer
President
American Values
Karen England
Executive Director
Capitol Resource Institute & Nevada Family Alliance
The Honorable George K. Rasley Jr.
Managing Editor
ConservativeHQ.com
The Honorable Stephen Stockman
U.S. House of Representatives
Former Member, Texas
Kelly Monroe Kullberg
Senior Advisor, American Association of Evangelicals (AAE)
Saulius "Saul" Anuzis
President
60 Plus Association
Jack Park
Conservative Activist and Donor
Law Offices of Jack Park
Paavo Ensio
Chairman
Universal Minerals Group
Jay Mount
President
MDS Communications Corporation
Daniel Perrin
Founder
HSA Coalition
Marc Little
Executive Director
CURE America Action, Inc.
Gary Marx
President
The Concord Fund
Floyd Brown
Founder
The Western Journal
Robert Keith Fischer
Meeting Coordinator
Conservatives of Faith
Andresen Blom
President
Hawaiian Values
Kay R. Daly
President
Coalition for a Fair Judiciary
Elaine Donnelly
President
Center for Military Readiness
Lewis K. Uhler
Founder and President
National Tax Limitation Committee
Grace-Marie Turner
President
Galen Institute
Dr. Allen Unruh
Founder
National Abstinence Clearinghouse
Joan Holt Lindsey
President
Lindsey Communications
C. Preston Noell III
President
Tradition, Family, Property, Inc.
Randy Page
Chief of Staff
Bob Jones University
Amapola Hansberger
President
Legal Immigrants for America
Chad Connelly
President
Faith Wins
Judson Phillips
Founder
Tea Party Nation
Ralph A. Rebandt, II
Michigan Gubernatorial Candidate
Ralph Rebandt for Governor
Gerard Kassar
State Chairman
NYS Conservative Party
Lee Beaman
CEO
Beaman Ventures
Rod D. Martin
Founder and CEO
The Martin Organization, Inc.
Christina Murphy Lusk
President
The Martin Foundation
Guillermo J. Aragon
Chief Financial Officer
Martin Imaging, Inc.
Haley E. Martin
Past President
The Martin Foundation
Catherine Glenn Foster, M.A., J.D.
President and CEO
Americans United for Life
Dr. Richard Lee
President and Speaker
There's Hope America
Ryan Helfenbein
Executive Director
Freedom Center at Liberty University
William Shaker
CEO
Washington Marketing Group
Stephen T. Whelan
Chairman
Witherspoon Institute
Mat Staver
Chairman
Liberty Counsel
The Honorable Scott Walker
President
Young America's Foundation
Richard wright
Owner
R & S LLC
Don Woodsmall
Principal
Arromid, LLC
Khadine Ritter
President
Eagle Forum of Ohio
Sean Noble
President
American Encore
Richard Norman
Founder and President
The Richard Norman Company
Jason Jones
President
Movie to Movement
Sandy Rios
Director of Governmental Affairs
American Family Association
Paul Blair
Senior Pastor
Reclaiming America for Christ
Alfred S. Regnery
Chairman, Conservative Action Project
President, Republic Book Publishers
Marjorie Dannenfelser
President
Susan B. Anthony List
The Honorable Tony Perkins
President
Family Research Council
The Honorable Jim DeMint
Chairman, Conservative Partnership Institute
Member, US Senate (SC 2005-2013)
The Honorable Morton C. Blackwell
President
The Leadership Institute
The Honorable Paul S. Teller, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Advancing American Freedom
The Honorable Bob McEwen
U.S. House of Representatives
Former Member, Ohio
Marty Dannenfelser
Director of Governmental Relations
Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE)
Kevin Roberts, Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer
Texas Public Policy Foundation
William L. Walton
Managing Editor and Host
The Bill Walton Show
The Honorable T. Kenneth Cribb, Jr.
Chief Domestic Advisor
President Ronald Reagan (1987-1988)
The Honorable Matt Schlapp
Chairman
American Conservative Union (ACU)
The Honorable David McIntosh
U.S. House of Representatives
Former Member, Indiana
Cleta Mitchell, Esq.
Jenny Beth Martin
Chairman
Tea Party Patriots Citizen Fund
Kelly J. Shackelford, Esq.
President and CEO
First Liberty Institute
L. Brent Bozell, III
Founder and President
Media Research Center
Kristan Hawkins
President
Students for Life of America
David N. Bossie
President
Citizens United
Alan Sears
Founder
Alliance Defending Freedom
James C. Dobson, Ph.D.
Founder & President
Dr. James Dobson Family Institute
Michelle Easton
President
Clare Boothe Luce Center for Conservative Women
Craig Shirley
Reagan Biographer
Presidential Historian
Trent England
Executive Director
Save Our States
Seton Motley
President
Less Government
Fr. Frank Pavone
National Director
Priests for Life
James L. Martin
Founder/Chairman
60 Plus Association
Kielle C. Horton
President
The Lindsey Foundation
The Honorable Peter J. Thomas
Chairman
The Conservative Caucus
Mike Stenhouse
Chief Executive Officer
RI Center for Freedom & Prosperity
Ron Pearson
Executive Director
Conservative Victory Fund
Jon Schweppe
Director of Policy and Government Affairs, American Principles Project
Peggy Dau
Representative
IranAliveMinistries
Mario Navarro da Costa
Director, Washington Bureau
Tradition, Family, Property
Richard D. Hayes
Partner
Hayes, Berry, White & Vanzant, LLP
Dr. Richard Rounsavelle
Trustee
Media Research Center
Richard G. Scurry
VP Product Development
14all.us
Robert D. Thompson
Former Administrator
The Weyrich Lunch (1999-2016)
Timothy Throckmorton
President
Lifepointe Ministries
Dr. Teryn Clarke
Neurologist
Clarke Neurology
Penna Dexter
Co-host
Point of View Radio
E.W. Jackson
President
STAND Foundation, Inc
Ambassador Henry F. Cooper
President Reagan's Chief Defense and Space Negotiator & Former SDI Director
William W. Pascoe, III
Our Man in Washington
Tea Party Patriots Action
The Honorable Mike Hill
Former Member
Florida State House
Kevin Freeman
Founder
NSIC Institute
The Honorable Terrence Scanlon
Retired Chairman and President
Capital Research Center
George M. Hiller
President
George M. Hiller Companies, LLC
Ellen Forde
Sherri R. Martin
Executive Vice President
The Martin Organization, Inc.
Lourdes Cosio
Campaign for the American Future
Shawn A. Mitchell
Former National Chaplain, National Federation of Republican Assemblies
Ralph Benko
Chairman
The Capitalist League
Melvin Adams
President
Noah Webster Educational Foundation
Jeff Hunt
Director
Centennial Institute
Dean Brode Nelson
Chairman
Frederick Douglass Foundation
The Honorable Diana Denman
Chairman/ President
The Reagan Legacy Forum
Rob Gluskin
Managing Director
Gluskin Investment Partners
Dr. Jerry A. Johnson
President (2013-2019)
National Religious Broadcasters
Virginia Armstrong
National Court Watch Chairman
Eagle Forum
Rob Chambers
Vice President
AFA Action
Tim LeFever
Chairman
Capitol Resource Institute
Sheryl Kaufman
Board Member
Americans for Limited Government
Kathleen Patten
President & CEO
American Target Advertising, Inc.
Barry Meguiar
President
Ignite America
Joseph A. Morris
Partner, Morris & De La Rosa
Assistant U.S. Attorney General, President Reagan
Linda L. Bean
Founder
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