It was a dark day for the United States of America yesterday, July 29, 2021.

The U.S. House of Representatives voted to approve a Biden appropriation bill that strips the Hyde amendment from all domestic spending by the Department of Health and Human Services, including Medicaid. Without the Hyde amendment, American taxpayers will be forced to pay directly for the destruction of innocent human beings in purely elective abortions for the first time since 1976.

Elections certainly do have consequences, as they say.

The House also approved the State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs spending bill, from which President Biden had stripped the Helms amendment. Without the Helms amendment, American taxpayers will be forced to fund the destruction of other nations' innocent unborn children.

No Republicans voted for either spending measure.

From Time.com: Republicans in Congress objected to the removal of both amendments. No Republicans voted for the Labor-HHS-Education spending bill that scrapped the Hyde Amendment when it was in the Appropriations Committee, and none voted for the package of spending bills on the House floor on Thursday. Senate Republicans have promised not to support a spending bill without Hyde, and the party believes it can highlight on the issue going forward.

Taxpayer dollars for death can still be stopped in the U.S. Senate.

Sen. Pat Toomey has been a reliable pro-life senator, but once again, if you live in Pennsylvania you should contact Sen. Toomey and insist that if there is no Hyde amendment, the budget must be rejected.

Sen. Bob Casey, a Democrat, frequently takes a pro-life position on abortion-related legislation. So please contact Sen. Casey as well and urge him to insist on maintaining the Hyde amendment.

Click here for contact information for the above-mentioned legislators.

The Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation has filed an amicus curia, friend of the court, brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

We are hopeful that this case will substantially weaker or possibly even completely overturn Roe v. Wade, which currently forces legalized abortion on all 50 states even in the later months of pregnancy.

The brief is available now on the website of the U.S. Supreme Court, and it is well worth taking the time to read.

As a friend of the court, the Federation has provided a brief that cuts through decades of misinformation, and bald faced lies from the abortion industry about abortion and women's health and safety, and pleads with the Justices to do away with the national embarrassment known as Roe v. Wade.

Dobbs v. Jackson will be under consideration as we march to the Supreme Court next January.

Plan now to be a part of People for Life's 49th Bus Trip to the Washington, DC March for Life. Buses will leave Erie on the evening of January 20, 2022 and return in the wee hours of January 22.

A nonprofit organization in northeastern Ohio that helps women facing challenging pregnancies has an urgent need for a part-time sonographer, two days a week. The location is within commuting distance of Erie. This is a paid position. For more information, please contact People for Life.

Please be thinking about Erie Gives Day, which will be here very soon.

We would greatly appreciate your remembering the People for Life Education Fund. You can look up the Education Fund on www.eriegives.org or just click this link.

We are dusting off our educational booth materials and finally getting our show back on the road!

We will have our usual educational outreach booth at Dan Rice Days in Girard next week, August 5, 6, & 7. If you are in the area, don't forget to stop and say hi. We will be on the north side of Route 20 right in front of the municipal building.

We are also looking forward to the Wattsburg, Waterford, and Albion fairs, beginning at the end of August.