From Life Site News: Senate Democrats push plan to force taxpayers to fund abortion trips across state lines
by Calvin Freiburger
Chuck Schumer, Tammy Baldwin, and Patty Murray are offering yet another preview of what Democrats have in store for abortion-on-demand should they win a united executive branch and Congress in the November elections.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — Senate Democrats are demanding a vote on legislation to establish a federal grant program to subsidize trips to obtain abortions across state lines using taxpayer dollars in the latest display of how far the party is willing to go to promote abortion-on-demand.
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The U.S. Treasury Department would be authorized to award grant money to pro-abortion organizations that would then dispense it to assist abortion seekers with the costs of round-trip travel, lodging, meals, childcare, translators, doulas, and patient education and information, as well as to make up for wages lost due to missing work.
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The bill has the backing of Democrat Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, who also took to the Senate floor, claiming that “perhaps, if Amber had access to this fund and could have left Georgia, if she had the federal resources to move quicker to get her care, perhaps she’d be alive.”
.@SenSchumer claims his illegal proposal to pay for Americans’ travel expenses if they get an abortion would have saved the lives of two Georgia women recently killed by abortion pic.twitter.com/RUEmod84Vs
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) September 24, 2024
Schumer was referring to a Georgia resident named Amber Thurman, who recently became the centerpiece of pro-abortion narratives for dying after taking abortion pills and not receiving emergency treatment for the ensuing sepsis until it was too late. The abortion lobby insists Georgia’s pro-life laws are to blame.
In reality, however, the sepsis for which Thurman needed treatment is a known (albeit rare) potential risk of the abortion pills she was given out of state…
Please read this article here, which includes source links and more information on the proposed legislation. Also, please share this post so more people can see what is at stake this November.