By Robert Laurie ——Bio and Archives--June 28, 2016
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"The platform goes further than previous Democratic platforms on women’s reproductive rights. It champions Planned Parenthood health centers and commits to push back on all Republican efforts to defund it. The platform also vows to oppose, and seek to overturn, all federal and state laws that impede a woman’s access to abortion, including by repealing the Hyde Amendment."The Hyde Amendment was passed in 1976 and prohibits the use of taxpayer dollars for abortion, with the usual exceptions for rape, incest the mother's health. That, apparently, is an intolerable injustice in the eyes of leftist butchers. Plus, it gives Hillary's surrogates a new way to pander. As Mrs. Clinton's senior policy advisor puts it: "for the first time, the Democratic Party platform explicitly calls for repealing the Hyde Amendment, which restricts access to women’s reproductive rights, particularly low-income women and women of color." In other words, if you don't want you tax dollars to be fund the slaughter of unborn infants, you're a sexist racist - a boring, and ultimately meaningless, argument that increasingly seems to be the only crutch propping up the Democrat Party.
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