Biden’s attempt to kill pro-life Hyde Amendment is morally ghastly

Biden’s pro-abortion policy would end decades of bipartisan agreement that, no matter what one’s position on the legality of abortion, at least it is enough of a morally fraught issue that the money of anti-abortion taxpayers should not be confiscated to pay for the taking of baby’s lives. The consensus was that even if private funds or private insurance cover the elective surgery, public funds should not be. That consensus was both moral and commonsensical. When a third of the population thinks that a procedure is murder and another third finds it morally problematic enough to favor considerable restrictions on it, it is unethical to use the plenary force of government to make those two-thirds materially support it. Yet again and again for the past two decades, the Left has pushed for just such coercive authority.