Biden directs additional funds to Texas abortion centers, launches new attacks on heartbeat law by Raymond Wolfe for Life Site News
The Biden administration will award up to $10 million to abortion facilities with ‘an influx of clients’ due to the Texas heartbeat law, health secretary Xavier Becerra said.
The Biden administration took new steps last week to undercut Texas’ life-saving heartbeat law and to prop up abortion businesses amid a near-total abortion ban in the state.
Biden health secretary Xavier Becerra on Friday announced a “three-pronged Department-wide response” to the Texas Heartbeat Act, or SB 8, by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), following Joe Biden’s call for a “whole-of-government effort” against the law.
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Becerra said that the HHS will direct additional funding to abortion centers in Texas, including through Every Body Texas, a nonprofit that administers federal “family planning” funds across the state. The funding is intended to respond to an “anticipated increase” in demand for “emergency contraception” abortifacient drugs, according to the HHS.
The department also unveiled plans to award up to $10 million in grants to abortion facilities that “can demonstrate a need resulting from an influx of clients as a result of SB 8,” as well as to centers in other states “with increased needs overall.”
The HHS announcement comes after Joe Biden directed the agency and the Department of Justice (DOJ) “to see what steps the Federal Government can take” to obstruct SB 8. A Supreme Court decision allowed the act to come into effect at the beginning of September.
The Texas Heartbeat Act, the strictest pro-life law to take effect since Roe v. Wade, bans abortion once a baby’s heartbeat can be detected, around six weeks into pregnancy. The unprecedented law delegates enforcement to private citizens, empowering individuals to sue anyone, besides the mother, involved in an abortion of a baby with a detectable heartbeat. Lawsuits can result in rewards of up to $10,000.
