The Office of Management and Budget is the largest office in the executive branch of the federal government.
First and foremost, the OMB prepares the federal budget proposal that the president sends up to Congress. Given we’re talking about the allocation of spending for almost $5 trillion of taxpayer funds, this is no small task.
President Biden accepted the withdrawal of his initial nominee for director of this substantial enterprise, Neera Tanden, when the numerous members of Congress she has personally attacked and disparaged over the years via her Twitter account expressed their displeasure.
The talk now is that Shalanda Young, Biden’s nominee for deputy director, should be bumped up to the director’s job.
But now Young finds herself embroiled in her own controversy.
In written response to questions associated with her confirmation hearings for deputy director, she noted her view that the Hyde Amendment should not be reauthorized, despite having been reauthorized every year since it first became law in 1976.
The amendment, named after its sponsor, Rep. Henry Hyde, was passed three years after the Roe v. Wade decision legalized abortion. It prohibits the use of federal funds for performing abortions, except in cases of danger to the life of the mother, incest and rape.
The amendment was a logical follow-up to Roe v Wade.
The Supreme Court may have concluded that a woman has the right to destroy the unborn child she is carrying. But that right certainly doesn’t extend to the federal government forcing taxpayers to pay for it.
But it turns out that Shalanda Young, who could be representing the president in the allocation and administration of $5 trillion of taxpayer money, doesn’t see it that way.
For most of his political career, our Catholic president has supported the Hyde Amendment. But suddenly, in 2019, as he aspired to win his party’s presidential nomination, Biden had a change of heart.
“The President has spoken in favor of Congress ending the Hyde Amendment,” wrote Young, “as part of his commitment to providing comprehensive health care for all women. Further, eliminating the Hyde Amendment is a matter of economic and racial justice because it most significantly impacts Medicaid recipients, who are low-income.”
In polling done by Gallup in 2020, 47% said abortion is morally wrong, and 44% said it is morally acceptable.
Somehow, our potential new director of OMB thinks being a poor black woman means not only having a right to destroy your unborn child but also having a right to use other people’s money to pay for it, even though half of them think abortion is morally wrong.
It’s also interesting to note that the same Gallup polling shows most of the sympathy for abortion is among high-income Americans, not low-income Americans.
Among those earning less than $40,000 and those earning $40,000 to $99,999, 52% say abortion is morally wrong. Among those earning more than $100,000, 33% say abortion is morally wrong.
If any moral disparity appears to jump out here, it is the apparent disproportional moral tolerance among higher-income Americans of a horrible act that destroys human life and takes place overwhelmingly among lower-income Americans, a disproportionate number of them black.
It is hard not to recall the motivations of eugenicist Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger.
The Charlotte Lozier Institute estimates that the Hyde Amendment saves 60,000 unborn babies each year.
If we are going to talk about women’s health, and economic and racial justice, we should talk about helping and encouraging women to take control of and responsibility for their lives. Health is about life, not death.
I suggest that President Biden reach back into his Rolodex and find a new nominee to run the OMB. Someone overseeing the dispersal of $5 trillion of taxpayer funds should have more respect for life and property than does Shalanda Young.
Star Parker is president of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education and host of the weekly television show “Cure America with Star Parker.” To find out more about Star Parker and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
Star Parker, Great column!!!! “wrote Young, “as part of his commitment to providing comprehensive health care for all women” . Yep, Shalanda Young, murdering a baby in the womb, a helpless baby, is “providing health care for all women”.
Unless those women are BABIES In the womb!!
The Supreme Court may have concluded that a woman has the right to destroy the unborn child she is carrying. But that right certainly doesn’t extend to the federal government forcing taxpayers to pay for it.
But it turns out that Shalanda Young, who could be representing the president in the allocation and administration of $5 trillion of taxpayer money, doesn’t see it that way.
Life is a gift from GOD.
If you destroy that Gift, what are you telling GOD?
Your decide.
One’s relationship with GOD is entirely between them and GOD.
Shalanda would turn the Hyde amendment into a Doctor Jekyll abortionist that makes Congressman Hyde the bad guy. Another upside-down Liberal revisionist reality.
“In polling done by Gallup in 2020, 47% said abortion is morally wrong, and 44% said it is morally acceptable.”….NO!,,,it is not acceptable to anyone who is human, but it may be tolerable to humans who choose to act like heartless animals. Americans need to study the meaning of their own language especially Christians who only tolerate what Liberals have them convinced they now accept, but God through their conscience keeps telling them it is not acceptable to any who reflect and live in his image.
“Thou Shalt not kill”,,,,or shallanda your butt in hell.
I have mixed emotions about abortion. I do not believe in using it for birth control, but then I can not get pregnant. As the development increases, I become more against it, and can only conclude that for sure, once that baby is viable and could survive outside the womb, it is nothing short of infanticide (murder). When the Nazi’s did it in the camps, these acts were condemned as murder. That exact act, when done with the mothers consent, is now legal? I am not talking about with or without consent, but the act of killing a viable infant. In no way do I mean to lessen the atrocities committed in the death camps, but we have far outpaced the Nazi’s in the acts of infanticide.
Which is why i firmly approve of MURDER CHARGES not just for the mother getting the abortion after say t he 7th month, BUT FOR THE DOCTOR performing it.
The two nominations for OMB, the largest office in the executive branch, were both women and women of colour, and two radical leftists with an agenda. The sights of this administration are aimed in one direction and one direction only, and it is not towards professionalism and competence. I doubt Biden has any idea what is going on.
HELL I doubt even his handlers have a clue.. They’re just following the script for ruining this nation, once and for all.
Woe be to those who destroy one of Gods children. I forgot that bible message doesn’t apply to democrats so I guess they are all safe- for the time being.