{"id":204127,"date":"2019-06-07T17:08:03","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T22:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=204127"},"modified":"2019-06-10T10:01:37","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T15:01:37","slug":"hyde-amendment-saved-millions-democrats-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/hyde-amendment-saved-millions-democrats-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Banning taxpayer-funded abortion has saved 2 million lives. Democrats don’t like it."},"content":{"rendered":"
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On Tuesday, a question to Joe Biden concerning the Hyde Amendment prompted a slew of support from 2020 Democratic presidential candidates. After the presumed front-runner for the Democratic nomination voiced support for the amendment, initially saying through his campaign<\/a> that \u201cthe Hyde Amendment does not prevent organizations in the U.S. that provide lifesaving health care services for women from receiving the federal funding they need,\u201d he was heavily criticized, both directly and indirectly, by other candidates on the campaign trail.<\/p>\n

Bernie Sanders tweeted<\/a> that his Medicare for All program would support unlimited access to abortion. Beto O\u2019Rourke also leaned<\/a> on the necessity of abortion for minorities and poor Americans, and thus the supported a repeal of the Hyde amendment. Elizabeth Warren has promised<\/a> she will \u201clead the fight\u201d to have it done away with. \u201cRepealing the Hyde Amendment is critical so that low-income women in particular can have access to the reproductive care they need and deserve,\u201d said Senator Kirsten Gillibrand<\/a>, another Democratic 2020 candidate. \u201cReproductive rights are human rights, period. They should be nonnegotiable for all Democrats.\u201d This is what these candidates mean when they say “reproductive rights.”<\/p>\n