Barbbtx
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Women who want abortions, pay PP for them, the government doesn't fund the. See the Hyde amendment!
This amendment needs to be made permanent. Is that why we had to specify no federal funds for abortions in DC when everyone thought the Hyde Amendment had taken care of that?
Hyde Amendment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Opponents of the amendment, such as the National Abortion Federation and the American Civil Liberties Union, assert that it unfairly targets low-income women,[2] stating the amendment effectively ended the provision of abortions for low-income women across the United States through Medicaid, the federal health insurance program for low-income Americans.[3] As a rider attached to the yearly appropriations bill for Medicaid, it occasioned intense debate in Congress each time that it came up for renewal. The original measure made no exceptions for cases of pregnancies that were the result of rape or incest or that threatened the lives of pregnant woman, provoking an outcry from women's rights advocates. As a result, beginning in 1977 language was added to provide for such circumstances; however, the exact wording has varied from one year to the next, subject to the outcome of Congressional bargaining on the issue.