When the Founding Fathers crafted the Constitution, they assigned certain powers to the bicameral houses of Congress as well as the procedures and rules to pass laws. The Founders also made provisions forbidding establishment of a state religion to guarantee that citizens were not forced to adhere to any particular faith. On August 15, 1789, James Madison wrote that he “apprehended the meaning of the words to be, that Congress should not establish a religion, and enforce the legal observation of it by law, nor compel men to worship God in any manner contrary to their conscience.” Madison would not recognize the current Congress or the unconstitutional establishment and enforcement of Christianity on lawmaking at the hands of Republicans.
Yesterday during debate on H.R. 3, the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act,” House Republicans forced a religious doctrine on the American people by passing the bill based solely on their belief in god. The House GOP also lied about the bill’s provisions that go against their own core beliefs on taxation, state’s rights, personal liberty, and government interference in the business community. The debate was between a parade of Republican liars who gave mini-sermons, and Democrats who attempted to protect women’s individual liberties and businesses from Republicans. It was a spectacle that was reminiscent of revivalist tent-meetings where charlatans deceive the public to inflame religious passions and paint Democrats as homicidal maniacs intent on killing babies as well as women.
The first lie Republicans perpetuated was that H.R. 3 was necessary to prevent the federal government from paying for elective abortion on demand. The Hyde Amendment prohibits one penny of taxpayer dollars from being used to fund abortions, but the god-fearing Republican liars disputed that the Hyde Amendment adequately prevented such funding. Besides the Hyde Amendment, President Obama made an executive order last year prohibiting taxpayer money from funding abortions as part of the Affordable Health Care Act.
According to the Hyde Amendment and President Obama’s executive order, abortions are only covered in the cases of rape and incest. In H.R. 3, Republicans put a provision that said rape had to be “forced” and Democrats offered an amendment to remove “forcible” from the language; Republicans railed on them and claimed the word was never in the bill. Several Republicans said the Democrats were lying and creating a distraction by claiming rape had to be forcible to qualify for abortion coverage; they also said the American people should read the bill to see for themselves that the Democrats were being dishonest. The word forcible is in the bill and every Republican voted against removing it from the language of the law.
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