Democrats Put Abortion before Helping Human Trafficking Victims

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Democrats Put Abortion before Helping Human Trafficking Victims

In January of this year, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX)75%introduced the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act. The most important part of this law is that it would impose an additional fine of $5,000 upon anyone caught engaging in various actions involved in human trafficking, and the money from these fines would go into a Domestic Trafficking Victims’ Fund. It had no problem going through the initial committee mark up back in February. After all, opposition to human trafficking is supposedly one of the few bipartisan things in Washington. I say “supposedly” because it’s now been all but scuttled because the Senate Democrats cannot stomach a provision in the bill that would prevent the fund’s money from paying for abortions. This is a routine amendment to all spending bills, but evidently, the Democrats had to draw the line here and throw trafficking victims under the bus to support their radical views on abortion. What’s worse is the Democrats’ argument that they didn’t see the provision because they didn’t actually read the bill. I kid you not, that is what they are saying.Per Politico: