Several jurisprudential arguments support the enactment of positive law codifying the
Hyde Amendment, and that will be seen in the following paragraphs.
Yet, the majority of women of reproductive age enrolled in these programs are affected by the
Hyde Amendment, which carves abortion care out of the package of benefits to which they have access.
Laguens is certainly right about the
Hyde amendment being terrible, and you'd be shocked if she felt differently about the bill.
(2) See Access Denied: Origins of the
Hyde Amendment and Other Restrictions on Public Funding for Abortion, ACLU, available at https://www.aclu.org/reproductive-freedom/access-denied-origins-hyde-amendment-and-other- restrictions-public-funding-abor [http://perma.cc/6Y3U-WHUU] (last visited June 8, 2014).
despite the unambiguous, targeted testimony that the
Hyde Amendment was
"The word forcible will be replaced with the original language from the
Hyde Amendment," said Smith spokesman Jeff Sagnip.
Many people falsely believe that the
Hyde Amendment, which has been routinely applied to appropriations bills since 1976, prevents federal funding of abortions.
Therefore, the
Hyde Amendment was adopted in 1977, which bans the use of federal funds for Medicaid abortions.
The
Hyde Amendment, which restricts federal funding of abortion, would be abrogated.
In Harris, the Supreme Court was faced with determining the statutory and constitutional validity of the
Hyde Amendment. (60) The
Hyde Amendment, like the Hyde-Weldon Amendment, is a rider to the annual Labor-HHS-ED appropriations bill.
During his watch, no foreign aid was to be used for promoting or performing abortions, and he enthusiastically supported the
Hyde Amendment, which calls for an anti-abortion rider on all federal spending measures.
The attacks began in the early 1970s with the
Hyde amendment, continued under the Reagan administration and that of erstwhile family planning supporter George H.