John,
I want to be sure you saw the recent news about the first bill Roger Marshall has introduced since being elected a US Senator. The Hyde Amendment prohibits COVID-19 relief funds from being used for abortion services; yet Senator Marshall is grandstanding on the issue to amplify his Party's attack on reproductive rights. Can you rush a donation today to help us protect a patient's right to choose?
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From: KDP Press <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 12:23 PM
Subject: (HTML VERSION): ICYMI: Marshall's First Senate Bill Seeks to Restrict Abortion Access For Women
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Azmain Ashraf
January 29, 2021
ICYMI: ROGER MARSHALL'S FIRST SENATE BILL SEEKS TO RESTRICT COVID-19 FUNDS FOR ABORTION SERVICES
Topeka, KS -- On Thursday, January 28th, Roger Marshall introduced his first legislation in the Senate seeking to put more restrictions on essential health care for women in the middle of a pandemic. This is nothing more than "legislative theater" given that federal funds are not allowed to be used to pay for abortions thanks to the Hyde Amendment. Instead of wasting his time on political grandstanding, Sen. Marshall should be focused on the "all-too-real problem of the vaccine rollout" that has undertaken our nation, and for which no federal plan existed until recently.
Read more about the Senator Marshall's first Senate bill here:
Have you noticed that Republican Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall tends to worry about all the wrong things? In the first piece of legislation he’s introduced in the U.S. Senate, Marshall is sponsoring a law that would keep COVID-19 relief dollars from funding abortions.
What, you didn’t know that any such dollars were funding abortions? They aren’t. And can’t, because the Hyde Amendment, first passed in 1976 and reenacted every year since, has kept federal funds from paying for abortions since 1980, when the amendment first went into effect after the Supreme Court ruled that such a ban was constitutional. Kansas also has multiple laws that prevent state funds from paying for abortions.
In other words, this is pure legislative theater from the OB-GYN from Great Bend.
Yet when it comes to the all-too-real problem of the fatally slow vaccine rollout — and with no federal plan until recently, no wonder — Marshall isn’t too concerned.
Kansas Republican Sen. Roger Marshall introduced legislation Thursday that would prohibit any funding for COVID-19 relief from being used for abortion services.
The text of the bill states that no federal funds authorized “for the purpose of preventing, preparing for, or responding to the COVID–19 pandemic, domestically or internationally… shall be expended for any abortion.”
The bill includes exception to that prohibition for cases in which the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest and for cases in which the pregnancy puts the woman’s life at risk.
Abortion rights proponents slammed Marshall’s proposal as misguided and mean-spirited during a health crisis.
“It’s an insult to Kansans that Sen. Marshall’s first bill is all about putting more restrictions on essential health care in the middle of a pandemic,” said Rachel Sweet, regional director of public policy for Planned Parenthood Great Plains Votes.
“Kansans need immediate health and economic relief, and they need it without politicians trying to exploit a dire global health crisis to advance their anti-abortion agenda.”
Onwards,
Vicki Hiatt
Chair of the Kansas Democratic Party
Paid for by the Kansas Democratic Party, Gina Long, Treasurer
Kansas Democratic Party
501 SE Jefferson St
Suite 30
Topeka, KS 66607
United States
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