A little late (our internet connection was down): In today’s second offering in “On the Square,” George Weigel celebrates An Anniversary of Consequence . Thirty years ago, on June 30th,
the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Harris v. McRae and upheld the constitutionality of the Hyde Amendment, which had prohibited federal funding for Medicaid abortions since 1976. Three decades later, Harris v. McRae remains the pro-life movement’s most important legal victory since Roe v. Wade created a “right to abortion” in 1973.
That victory — “a continual bone in the throat of abortion advocates” — is, he notes, “now jeopardized by Obamacare, and by the insouciance of some Catholics about the extension of the Hyde Amendment to future federal health-care legislation.”
