Rejects Shaheen Amendment—The final FY2020 State/Foreign Operations (SFOPS) bill maintains current law on abortion/contraception, rejecting Sen. Shaheen’s anti-life amendment—added at committee-- that increased funding for family planning/reproductive health (FP/RH) by $57.55 million. These funds would have gone to pro-abortion US NGOs exempt from PLGHA - while also providing enforcement for an Obama-era regulation aimed at driving out faith-based providers.
Rejects House’s Anti-Life Riders—The final FY2020 LaborHHS, SFOPS, and Financial Services bills reject all anti-life riders in the House’s partisan appropriations bills—including undermining the Trump Administration’s Title X Protect Life rule, Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance (PLGHA), conscience rule, and abortion fetal tissue policy, as well as funding abortions in D.C. . These riders were specifically opposed as anti-life poison pills that violate the budget deal by 26 Senators, in a Senate Pro-Life Caucus-led letter to President Trump.
Keeps the Senate Majority and Pres. Trump’s Pro-Life Promises—The FY2020 bills make good on the Senate Pro-Life Caucus-led letter to President Trump – signed by 49 senators- on protecting life in spending bills—to which Trump responded by pledging to veto any bill that undermines Federal pro-life policy.
Anti-life report language eliminated—Anti-life report language was rejected that would have added abortion into human rights reports, undermined the State Department’s Kemp-Kasten determination for UNFPA, integrated FP/RH into women’s economic empowerment programs, and undermined USAID’s administration of family planning programs internationally.
Preserves Longstanding Pro-Life Protections—The 12 spending bills preserve all longstanding pro-life protections like the Hyde Amendment:
FY 2020 Labor/HHS
Hyde Amendment – bars funding for elective abortion and elective abortion coverage for Medicaid, Medicare, other Labor-HHS funding
Weldon Amendment – bars governmental funding recipients from discrimination based on objections to abortion
Dickey-Wicker Amendment – bars embryo-destructive research
Title X Abortion funding and political lobbying ban
Title X family participation encouragement requirements
Title X rape reporting requirements
Medicare Advantage Abortion Nondiscrimination
Embryo Adoption Activities authorization
Discretionary funding sources utilized by abortion providers:
Title X Funding - $286.479 million (same as FY19-enacted level)
Teen Pregnancy Prevention Funding - $101 million (same as FY19-enacted level)
Note: $35 million is provided for sexual risk avoidance education (same as FY19-enacted level)
FY 2020 State/Foreign Operations
Helms Amendment (two places) – bars funds for abortion as a method of family planning
Peace Corps abortion restrictions
Kemp/Kasten Amendment – allows the President to bar funding to organizations like UNFPA that participate in coercive abortion or sterilization
Siljander Amendment – bars funding for abortion-related lobbying
Livingston Amendment – nondiscrimination protections for providers of natural family planning
Tiahrt Amendment – ensures family planning programs are voluntary
Ban on funding involuntary sterilizations
Biden Amendment – bars funding for biomedical research involving abortions or involuntary sterilizations
Child Survival/Disease/HIV-AIDS Programs Notwithstanding Clause – ensures abortion and family planning restrictions apply for all child survival, disease, HIV/AIDS programs
UNFPA restrictions – restricts funding for UNFPA involvement in China and in abortion
Deviation Authority for Family Planning/Reproductive Health (FP/RH)– allows the Secretary to deviate by 5% from FP/RH amounts provided within the economic support fund, that is, by $2.5525 million.
Discretionary funding sources utilized by abortion providers:
UNFPA Funding Earmark - $32.5 million, subject to the Kemp-Kasten provision (same as FY19-enacted level)
Family Planning/Reproductive Health Funding Earmark – not less than $575 million (same as FY19-enacted level).
These amounts are allocated in the SFOPS report’s tables as: $523.95 million within global health programs and $51.05 million within the Economic Support Fund
FY 2020 Financial Services
Smith Amendment – bans elective abortion coverage in federal employee health plans
Contraception-related Conscience Protections in FEHBP
D.C. Contraceptive Mandate Intent of Congress
Dornan Amendment – bans both federal and local D.C. funds for elective abortion, including in the D.C. Medicaid program
FY 2020 Commerce/Justice/State
Department of Justice elective abortion restrictions
Prohibition on LSC grantees participating in abortion litigation
FY 2020 Agriculture
Aderholt Amendment – bars FDA from approving embryo gene editing research involving a pregnancy
FY 2020 Military Construction/Veterans Affairs
Application of Dickey-Wicker Amendment to IVF treatments
Removal of limits on embryo cryopreservation and storage for IVF treatments
FY 2020 Department of Defense
Removal of limits on embryo cryopreservation and storage for IVF treatments
Under the legislation, mandatory funding is extended at current levels ($4 billion/yr) for the Community Health Center Fund through May 22, 2020 with Hyde-like abortion restrictions. Mandatory funding is also extended through May 22, 2020 for Obamacare’s sex education program, PREP--alongside Title V sexual risk avoidance education at current levels ($75 million/yr for both programs). (Note: Planned Parenthood receives around $3 million/yr in PREP funding.)
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