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During an interview on CNN\u2019s <\/span>\u201c<\/span>State of the Union<\/span><\/a>,\u201d<\/span> Rep. Pramila Jayapal claimed the <\/span>Hyde Amendment<\/span><\/a> \u201cis something that the majority of the country does not support.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For nearly 45 years, the <\/span>bipartisan amendment<\/span><\/a>, attached to spending bills,\u00a0has saved over two million lives and prevented federal taxpayers from funding most abortions. Considering that many <\/em><\/span>polls<\/span><\/a> show<\/span><\/a> that most <\/span>Americans<\/span><\/a> oppose the\u00a0<\/span>federal funding<\/span><\/a> of <\/span>abortion<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>The Washington Post\u2019s<\/span><\/a> Glenn Kessler expressed skepticism at Jayapal\u2019s claim, awarding it “two Pinocchios.”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As the outlet noted, it seems Jayapal was citing a 2019 <\/span>poll<\/span><\/a> Hart Research Associates conducted for <\/span>All* Above All<\/span><\/a>. Kessler pointed out a potential conflict of interest with the poll\u2019s findings, as this advocacy group supports public insurance coverage of abortion.\u00a0<\/span>While the poll claimed 62% of Americans favor Medicaid coverage of abortion, with 38% opposed, Kessler noted the complicated phrasing of the poll\u2019s question might have played a part in the results.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Hart Poll asked:<\/span><\/p>\n

Medicaid is the health insurance program for people with low incomes. Under current federal policy, if a woman who is enrolled in Medicaid becomes pregnant, Medicaid will pay for her pregnancy care and childbirth, but Congress currently denies her coverage for the cost of an abortion. Would you favor or oppose enabling a woman enrolled in Medicaid to have all her pregnancy-related healthcare covered by her insurance, including abortion services?<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

The poll avoided directly asking participants whether they support federal funding of abortion by asking if they favored Medicaid funding for \u201cpregnancy-related healthcare.\u201d Kessler also noted that asking participants whether they agree or disagree with the statements in the poll \u201csuggest the pump was being primed.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Pro-abortion members of Congress use misleading abortion claims to scrap Hyde Amendment<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Rebecca Naser, senior vice president at Hart, claimed the long-worded question was necessary due to the public\u2019s \u201cpretty limited understanding of what Medicaid is and what it covers and does not cover as it relates to pregnancy\u2026\u201d <\/span>Naser did not, however, respond to Kessler\u2019s concerns about whether the poll\u2019s methods had guided participants toward a particular answer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re often wary of polls commissioned by advocacy groups,\u201d Kessler wrote. \u201cIn this case, Jayapal is relying on a poll done for a group that wants more public funding of abortions. The outcome of polls often depends greatly on the framing of questions.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBut there has been little high-quality independent polling on this issue and it\u2019s possible that attitudes are shifting,\u201d he claimed. \u201cThe <\/span>Ipsos<\/span><\/a> poll from this year asked a straightforward question that resulted in a finding that a slight majority of Americans supported Medicaid funding of abortions \u2014 in other words, the end of the Hyde amendment.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

However, according to Kessler, \u201cThat result has to be balanced against the many other polls that reached a different conclusion, suggesting the answer is not as clear-cut as Jayapal asserts.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Repealing the Hyde Amendment would force taxpayers to financially support abortions for low-income women and increase the number of preborn lives lost to it every day. Incentivizing abortion as “free” has been shown to significantly increase the number of abortions<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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During an interview on CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union,\u201d Rep. Pramila Jayapal claimed the Hyde Amendment \u201cis something that the majority of the country does not support.\u201d\u00a0 For nearly 45 years, the bipartisan amendment, attached to spending bills,\u00a0has saved over two million lives and prevented federal taxpayers from funding most abortions. Considering that many polls […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":617,"featured_media":254862,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3473,11],"tags":[4036,291,13326,13328,703,13313,822,13329,230,13327],"yoast_head":"\nLawmaker's claim about taxpayer-funded abortion earns 'two Pinocchios' from Washington Post<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Rep. Pramila Jayapal said the Hyde Amendment "is something that the majority of the country does not support\u201d. 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