{"id":317761,"date":"2024-08-29T08:42:32","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T13:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=317761"},"modified":"2024-09-05T22:09:09","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T03:09:09","slug":"hyde-amendment-saved-millions-abortion-want-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/hyde-amendment-saved-millions-abortion-want-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hyde Amendment has saved the lives of millions – and abortion proponents want it gone"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Hyde Amendment, which prohibits federal taxpayer funding of most abortions, is the latest target of abortion proponents. \u00a0Big Abortion understands that when abortion is subsidized by the taxpayer, abortions increase<\/a>. This has been seen in various states where taxpayers have funded abortions through Medicaid. The federal Hyde Amendment is credited with saving millions of lives<\/a> \u2014 millions of people who otherwise would have been aborted on the taxpayer’s dime.<\/p>\n

The overturning of Roe v. Wade<\/em> in the Dobbs<\/em> decision unleashed various changes in the abortion landscape. Abortion facilities located in states protecting preborn lives relocated to states attempting to become abortion havens \u2014 states like Illinois, New York, New Mexico and others. This could lead to an over-saturation of abortion businesses vying for the same business.<\/p>\n

But, if abortion were to be completely taxpayer-funded, this would increase potential clients in these states. Coercively<\/a> “free” abortions aren’t really free at all; the rest of society would be paying to end the lives of those most vulnerable and most disadvantaged. This is not “reproductive justice.” It’s eugenic population control<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Getting Rid of the Hyde Amendment<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Hyde Amendment is a pro-life rider passed in 1976 which prevents<\/a> federal dollars from funding most abortions. While eliminating Hyde was a goal of abortion proponents under Roe<\/em>, the desire to end it has increased post-Dobbs<\/em>.<\/p>\n

A recent report<\/a> published by FullerProject.org<\/a> claimed, “Abortion fund leaders have… called for Democrats to support unrestricted access to abortion without viability and gestational limits and an immediate end to the Hyde Amendment, which bans federal funds from being used on abortion care.”<\/p>\n

A strategy for 2024 published<\/a> by the pro-abortion National Women’s Law Center Action fund (NWLC) claims NWLC wants to “[m]ake sure our federal budgets fully fund reproductive health care, including birth control and abortion care, and eliminate the Hyde and Weldon amendments.”<\/p>\n

A brief published<\/a> by a litany of abortion providers<\/a> under the name Abortion Justice Now called it “critical” that “any federal policy address both public funding and abortion access for young people.”<\/p>\n

The president of Reproductive Freedom for All, formerly known as NARAL Pro-Choice America, has called<\/a> for a \u201c[f]ederal right to abortion\u201d and to \u201celiminate the Hyde Amendment.\u201d<\/p>\n

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We must pass a federal right to abortion\u2014and that's just the beginning.<\/p>\n

As @mintimm<\/a> said, we must also defeat conservative lawmakers' extreme agenda on all fronts\u2014this includes eliminating the Hyde Amendment. pic.twitter.com\/XseL38KsB0<\/a><\/p>\n

— Reproductive Freedom for All (@reproforall) April 2, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n