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Helms Amendment
Helms Amendment may refer one of two legislative actions initiated by US Senator Jesse Helms: * Helms Amendment to the Foreign Assistance Act, US legislation designed to limit the use of foreign assistance funds for abortion. * Helms AIDS Amendments, legislation designed to limit the use of government funds for AIDS educational materials. {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jesse Helms
Jesse Alexander Helms Jr. (October 18, 1921 – July 4, 2008) was an American politician. A leader in the Conservatism in the United States, conservative movement, he served as a senator from North Carolina from 1973 to 2003. As chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 1995 to 2001, he had a major voice in foreign policy. Helms helped organize and fund the conservative resurgence in the 1970s, focusing on Ronald Reagan's quest for the White House as well as helping many local and regional candidates. On domestic social issues, Helms opposed civil rights, disability rights, environmentalism, second-wave feminism, feminism, gay rights, affirmative action, access to abortion in the United States, abortions, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, and the National Endowment for the Arts. He brought an "aggressiveness" to his conservatism, as in his rhetoric against homosexuality. ''The Almanac of American Politics'' wrote that "no American politician is more controvers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helms Amendment To The Foreign Assistance Act
The Helms Amendment to the Foreign Assistance Act, sometimes called simply the Helms Amendment, is a 1973 amendment, passed by the U.S. Congress in the wake of the ''Roe v. Wade'' decision by the United States Supreme Court, to limit the use of US foreign assistance for abortion. Named after North Carolina senator Jesse Helms, the amendment states that "no foreign assistance funds may be used to pay for the performance of abortion as a method of family planning or to motivate or coerce any person to practice abortions." Background and passage After the Supreme Court's landmark 1973 decision ''Roe v. Wade'', anti-abortion activists began mobilizing at the federal level. One of the goals of the anti-abortion movement in the wake of ''Roe'' was to cut off all federal funding support for abortion care in order to reduce the availability of legal abortions. In the year after the decision, socially conservative, evangelical Protestants who were anti-abortion mobilized to an unprecede ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
