FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 12, 2021
Contact:
Natalie Panettiere
202-266-4816, npanettiere@cwfa.org
OMB Nominee’s Warped Abortion Views Outside the Mainstream
Washington, D.C.— Shalanda Young, President Joe Biden’s nominee to be deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), supports eliminating the historically bipartisan Hyde Amendment protections as “a matter of economic and racial justice.”
Penny Nance, CEO and President of Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee (CWALAC), had this to say:
“At a time in our history where there are areas in our country where more African American babies are aborted than born, it is unconscionable such a radical view of abortion is being promoted at the highest levels of our government.
“The Hyde Amendment has been historically a place of common ground by both pro-choice and pro-life Americans. President Joe Biden himself agreed with it. It simply says we should not be using Americans’ taxpayer money to pay for abortions. The overwhelming majority of Americans agree with this commonsense provision.
“As if the Biden Administration’s betrayal of American’s trust in this area were not enough, for this nominee to hide behind the ‘racial justice’ label to justify forcing Americans to pay for elective abortions through taxpayer dollars is Orwellian, given the abortion industry’s sordid history with eugenics and the targeting of minorities.
“Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas recently traced abortion’s racist history on his opinion in Box v. Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky. It should be required reading for all Americans.
“The true fight for racial justice is a fight against Big Abortion’s targeting of minorities, not fighting to increase abortionists’ profits through taxpayer dollars.
“Shalanda Young should be soundly rejected for these radical comments by senators from both sides of the aisle.”
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Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee (CWALAC) is the legislation and advocacy arm of Concerned Women for America. Concerned Women for America is the nation’s largest public policy women’s organization with a rich 40-year history of helping our members across the country bring Biblical principles into all levels of public policy.
Having been born on June 6, D-Day, I have always had an affinity for that day in our history. This year during the 75th anniversary year of D-Day, I was privileged to stand on Omaha Beach and Utah Beach where thousands of U.S. troops landed, and many died, to begin the liberation of Europe. As you look at the pictures from that day, you see the young faces and realize that these were young men who willing made the decision to go into battle knowing that they might not return. But yet they appreciated and loved the freedoms they had been given, and they were willing to go to a foreign place and protect those freedoms for other people. I looked at those pictures with sadness knowing the sacrifices that had been made, yet at the same time I wanted to stand up and cheer because of the choices they made, and the results of those choices that we see around us 75 years later not only here in the United States but in France and across Europe. I praise God for the men of our nation who made those hard choices and went willingly into the fray. I walked away reminded once again that God has created in men a unique courage that enables them to stand against overwhelming odds and walk into the danger.
The inscription around the memorial chapel at the American Military Cemetery at Omaha Beach says it so beautifully: “These endured all and gave all that Justice among nations might prevail and that mankind might enjoy freedom and inherit peace.”
