Taxpayer Funds Used to Fund Abortions? Say It Ain’t So!

The following blog post is by Family Council staff member Luke McCoy.

Arkansas and 32 other states have successfully passed legislation prohibiting taxpayer funds from being used for certain abortions, excluding a minority of abortions from rape, incest and a mother’s ability to survive the pregnancy.

The Hyde Amendment, which is the federal provision that prohibits certain federal taxpayer funds from being used for certain abortions originated in 1976 and has been attached to federal appropriation bills throughout the years. With that said we can rest easy knowing taxpayer money is not used for abortions in those 33 states and focus on other pro-life measures, right? Don’t get comfortable yet.

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Abortion Advocates Fail to Mention Consequences for the Mothers

Abortion not only takes the life of a baby; it can negatively impact the life of the mother.

The Elliot Institute is a nonprofit organization that studies the effects abortion has on women.  These are some of the repercussion of abortion indicated by their research:

  • 31% of women having abortions report suffering physical health complications;
  • 10% of women having abortions suffer immediate, potentially life-threatening complications;
  • Women have a 65% higher risk of clinical depression following abortion vs. childbirth;
  • 65% of women suffer symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) after abortion;
  • Women’s death rates from various causes after abortion are 3.5 times higher than after giving birth ;
  • Many women describe their experience as ‘a nightmare,’ which can hardly be equated with ‘choice;’
  • 60% of women surveyed after abortion responded that, ‘Part of me died;’
  • Suicide rates among women who have abortions are six times higher than those who give birth;
  • Abortion increases a woman’s risk of future miscarriages by 60%.

More information is available on the Elliot Institute’s website.