By Dave Andrusko

Donald Trump has outlined a four-part pledge that includes, “Making the Hyde Amendment permanent law to protect taxpayers from having to pay for abortions.“

Could there be any clearer a contrast than today’s celebration of the 40th anniversary of the life-saving Hyde Amendment which comes less than a month before the 100th anniversary of the founding of the ultimate Death Peddlers, Planned Parenthood?

We needn’t recite or rehash at length PPFA’s abortion involvement–at home and abroad. In one sense they are the host in which the anti-life virus grows and thrives. In another sense they are the virus which has mutated over its long history into a particularly lethal expression.

It’s not “just” that PPFA perform close to a third of the 1 million+ abortions which take place annually in the United States. Nor is that its political arm pours boat-loads of money into electing militantly pro-abortion politicians. Nor is even that, in spite of all the recent highly negative publicity, PPFA’s image remains largely intact.

Planned Parenthood is all this, and much more. In cahoots with pro-abortion Hillary Clinton and the Democrat Party (most recently through its 2016 abortion platform plank), they want: abortion everywhere; your right to conscientiously opt out of involvement snuffed out, and ; to reach into our pockets so that the 300,000 + abortions that formerly were paid for prior to the Hyde Amendment’s enactment, will once again be subsidized.

NARAL Pro-Choice America sent out an email blast today touting itself in having “shifted the national conversation around Hyde in remarkable ways this past year.” In a way this is the usual pro-abortion hooey, in another, more limited, way it is spot on.

Contrary to the implication of NARAL President Ilyse Hogue’s boast, there is no evidence–zero–that the American public feels any different about funding abortion. With strong majority opposition that extends back decades, Americans do not want to underwrite abortion–and that includes a sizable percentage of self-identified “pro-choicers.”

What Hogue is talking about, of course, is Hillary Clinton’s fond embrace of a position wildly out of whack with the public’s and the decision (for the first time) by Democrats to include in their platform a call to overthrow the Hyde Amendment.

That is “progress,” but the kind that is doomed not only to fail but to snap back and hurt Democrats. To borrow from a popular phrase, Clinton and the Democrats are on the wrong side of history.

Support for tax-payer funded abortion is part and parcel of Clinton’s two-armed hug of the most militant, extremist wing of the abortion movement. It is also 180 degrees from where pro-life Donald Trump is.

In his recent letter to pro-lifers, Trump outlined a four-part pledge that included, “Making the Hyde Amendment permanent law to protect taxpayers from having to pay for abortions. “

For those who hadn’t already heard, Trump also wrote he was committed to

· Nominating pro-life justices to the U.S. Supreme Court.

· Signing into law the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which would end painful late-term abortions nationwide.

· Defunding Planned Parenthood as long as they continue to perform abortions, and reallocating their funding to community health centers that provide comprehensive health care for women.

Please read all the other four stories we’re running today about the Hyde Amendment and then please forward them to your pro-life family and friends.

There is a lot ahead of us over the next five and a half weeks, and they need to know that Trump’s and Clinton’s night and day differences on abortion, including the Hyde Amendment.