The United States federal government has been barred by law from providing your tax dollars, in the form of federal funding, for Medicaid coverage of most abortions for over 40 years now.
If pro-abortion fanatics have their way, that will end during Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s first term as president. And it could lead to over 33,000 new abortions a year.
First approved in 1976, and renewed annually ever since as part of the congressional appropriations process, the Hyde Amendment has, for most of its existence, enjoyed broad bipartisan support in Congress.
That’s now changed. At their recent national convention, Democrats for the first time included in their platform a call for the Hyde Amendment to be repealed. Clinton is embracing that stance, even as it risks creating friction within the party.
The amendment’s supporters depict it as essential in ensuring that citizens who oppose abortion do not have to foot the bill. However, critics are demanding that low-income women get any abortions they want paid for by taxpayers.
“Access to abortion shouldn’t depend on your zip code, and it shouldn’t depend on your pocketbook,” said Nancy Northup, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights.
And despite political obstacles, advocates of repeal are upbeat as they succeed in drawing more attention to the amendment.
“I don’t think we’re as far away as people might think,” said Colorado Rep. Diana DeGette, a leading pro-abortion supporter. “We got tired of tacitly accepting that a ban on Medicaid money was acceptable.”
The amendment is named after its initial sponsor, Republican Rep. Henry Hyde of Illinois, who made clear from the start that the policy would target low-income women.
“I certainly would like to prevent, if I could legally, anybody having an abortion, a rich woman, a middle-class woman or a poor woman,” he told Congress in 1977. “Unfortunately, the only vehicle available is the (Medicaid) bill.”
According to the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortions, the number of annual abortions among Medicaid-covered women would likely rise by about 33,000.
Pro-life advocates aren’t taking the news lying down.
The Susan B. Anthony List, an anti-abortion group, is mounting a door-knocking campaign in three battleground states that emphasizes Clinton’s views.
The group’s president, Marjorie Dannenfelser, says the repeal issue has the potential to divide Democrats, and she would like to see Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speak out in support of the Hyde Amendment.
“He’s insane if he lets that go by the wayside,” Dannenfelser said.
What are your thoughts on the Hyde Amendment? Comment below.
— The Associated Press contributed to this article
How ANYONE could support abortions for other than medically necessary to save the life of the mother is beyond comprhension. It is a violent murder period. No other way to look at it.Their cavalier disregard for life & decency is appalling. IF I could I would shutter every abortion clinic in the country and leave medical abortions where they belong in the Hospital
((“Access to abortion shouldn’t depend on your zip code, and it shouldn’t depend on your pocketbook,” said Nancy Northup, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights.))
Flash for you, Nancy… it depends on keeping your slut legs crossed.
This is in return for PP supporting the Dems ans clinton. Now when PP kills a baby the will be sure to get paid. And some people are ok with this.
I don’t want to pay for anyone’s abortion. Women have a right to say no, prevent pergancy. Once you are pregnant you should not be able to say your rights or what you want is more important than an innocent child. You are committing murder like you took a gun and shot someone. It’s in the news everyday about shootings and we are outraged but babies are killed everyday and no says a word..This country is in sad shape !!!
But they don’t have a problem with our veterans not getting health care or being homeless. Folks this what pure evil looks like.
Agree!
I agree with you guys, abortion is murder unless the mother’s life is endangered & in a case of rape incest!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Abortions should be done as SOON as you find out your pregnant otherwise keep or adopt the baby out, the fetus feels pain too we just can’t see it & don’t give it a second thought!!!!!! Personally I would Never abort a fetus, NEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!! Keep your knees together, buy some suction cups.
Better yet anyone who has an abortion should get sterilized. This is because if their life is in danger we prevent more abortions. If it is a mater of convenience than we need them to quit producing children. Stopping murder is important.
We’ve been told over and over that what other women choose to do with their bodies is “not our business”….but, frankly, it BECOMES our business if we are required to pay for it!
I realize that there are some situations in which abortion seems to be the only, if unfortunate, choice, but too many women, particularly those in the lower income brackets, are using abortion as birth control. If Planned Parenthood would concentrate on providing these young women with sound information about safe and effective birth control measures, the number of abortions could be reduced radically. Even providing women with intrauterine devices, which prevent fertilized eggs from being implanted in the uterus (and are therefore technically an abortifacient) would be preferable to tearing apart a six-month fetus limb from limb and to putting women through the physical and emotional trauma of undergoing an abortion.
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mind your own bus i quess your a stupid rep who loves to pay taxes for welfare and by the the way how many deformed mentally challenged have you adopted this is why the rep will become a minority because you idiots are lead by the nose by religeous zealots power hungry assholes
I had a mentally challenge that was born with Downs Syndromes. I took care of her for 12 years. I enjoyed being with her and we did lots of nice things with her. When she was six years old her mother and father put her in the Belchertown Institution. I also had another female client who also was with us for 11 years. The only family was her sister. So don’t think you can’t have good times having these handicap people. Just to let you know, I don’t believe in abortion. God will take care of these angels.
Abortion is willful and deliberate murder.
Agree!
I REALIZE THAT IT MAY COME TO THEM A SHACK BUT PLANNED PARENTHOOD IS A ABORTION MILL. THE PAYING FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD IS TAXATION WITH OUT REPRESENTATION! IF THE PRO COICERS WERE REALLY IN THE MAJORITY PLANNED PARENTHOOD WOULD NOT NEED TO STEAL MONEY THAT COULD GO ON THE NATIONAL DEBT INSTEAD OF KILLING BABIES! if THE CHILD IS NOT ALIVE THAT PARENTS DO NOT EXIST! THIS MAKES THEIR NAME A FRAUD!
PP is an abortion mill. That is what that business does they lie about everything else also.
why should I have to pay, for your fault !!!!
Do you feel it is intelligent to support the unwanted child for the next 18 years and possibly for life?
Use a condom or birth control pill. Problem solved.
Abortion is a medical procedure and should be cover by medical insurance.
Agree !
Will not pay for abortions that are being used as birth control. Will pay for sterilization of these women who have no self control and want to have a good time. There is also something called birth control, try it sometime ladies! For example, No gliove, no love okay? Understand that when you make something YOU, not I, not it takes a village will take care of it. You just want to do the fun part right? And it doesn’t end with the free abortions, it’s free child care, free college, food stamps, welfare, Obamacare, etc.
Agree!
Women who require us to pay for their abortions should be sterilized or shot as terrorists.
why should I have to pay for your play!!!!
Trump, Trump, Trump 2016 all the way! We have to thank God that this man is willing to run. President Trump! Get used to it commies! The commie regime is going to end shortly! Pack your bags and move to the commie country of your choice being that you agree with it so much. Try Hungary, George Soros is waiting for you! God bless America! Anyone who finds the American flag offensive, I will be happy to help you pack!
Agree !
Trump 2016! And it doesn’t end with the free abortions. It’s free childcare, college, welfare, food stamps Obamacare, the whole package. Move to Hungary, where George Soris lives and let him pay for it
It’s already bad enough that the overburdened Working Class taxpayers, the overburdened Working Poor tax payers have to pay for Federaly funded abortions, pay for the bulk of that damned NATO alliance, pay for that damned United Nations, plus for foreign aid to Iran, The PLO, Syria, and all of our countries enemies and now the Demoncrats want the tax payers to pay for abortions, more than enough is more than enough. There’s the paperwork that adds to the true & real waste, overpaid members of the House & Senate in Washington, DC along with over paid Figurehead cabinet members. The country needs Donald J. Trump & Michael Pence now! TRUMP-PENCE ALL THE WAY. TRUMP-PENCE 2016, 2020.
To correct the “overburdened Working Class taxpayers, the overburdened Working Poor tax payers”, raise taxes on the rich and the deserting corporations, and cut the taxes on the middle and poor classes.
TRUMP-PENCE would be a total disaster for our nation and the world.
Grover Syck-
To correct the “overburdened Working Class taxpayers, the overburdened Working Poor tax payers”, raise taxes on the rich
They’ll just go elsewhere and take their money with them.
and the deserting corporations,
Who will do what they’ve always done since NAFTA: take their industry and talent pool elsewhere. IIRC, all corporate entities are required by law to maximize profits for their shareholders – so if they’re oppressed here(and they have been), POOF! Buh-bye jobs!
and cut the taxes on the middle and poor classes.
Hard to tax people who have no jobs because of stupid policies like raising taxes on the rich and on corporations.
TRUMP-PENCE would be a total disaster for our nation and the world.
Trump-Pence will be a total disaster to all those who think like YOU, i agree!
Grover Syck I suppose that that damned POS white trash B@&CH Hitlery Killery ROTTON Ayatollah Khoemeni Clinton is the best solution for the country. HKRAKC is the very worst choice for the country, the Clinton-Kaine ticket is the end of the United States as we know it. The best friends that The Clinton-Kaine ticket has are people like you, the idiots that have NO BRAINs that will vote for them and the NON VOTERS THAT CONStANTLY COMPLAIN, BUT WILL NEVER AT ALL FOR NO REASON, BUT
WILL SHOOT THEIR COMPLAINING MOUTHS OFF are the best friends the CLinton-Kaines ticket has.
Darrell Castle/Scott Bradley for prolife!
Trump 2016! And it doesn’t end with the free abortions. It’s free childcare, college, welfare, food stamps, Obamacare, the whole package. Move to Hungary, where George Soros lives and let him pay for it! The commie regime is going to be over very shortly!
Abortion is a medical procedure. It should be fully covered by ALL insurance as such. All contrecption methods should be readily available, and FREE.
The Hyde amendment must be thrown in the trash.
We must greatly reduce the worlds population, or nature will do it for us, and nature does not discriminate and is not merciful.
If it is not your body, it is none of your business.
gee I thought medical procedures were meant to save lives…I guess slaughtering and mutilating babies in the womb should continue because insurance will pay for it? What a woman does in her bedroom IS none of my business, but THAT is where her choice is. She does have the option to say NO!.. Once there is conception, believe it or not, another person is now involved. So because it has no way to communicate, we should just murder it..I have a feeling that if he/she could communicate the message would be .I WANT TO LIVE!!! .So sad..so many black hearts in the world today:(
Hey Grover-
“We” must greatly reduce the world’s population…
Uh-huh. First, who is this “we” you refer to, and second, why are YOU not one of the first volunteers!?!
Pay for it yourself, it should be retro active for the mother and the daddy. It is not right God is going to make you pay!
Grover Syck-
Here’s something you may not be aware of.
If you kill a pregnant woman – whether by accident, during a passionate moment, or with malice aforethought – you are charged with TWO murders.
Now, explain to me again about how abortion is just a “simple medical procedure that should be covered by insurance” one mo’ time, will ya?
Grover you are the poster child for abortion. You’ve got drain bramage.
Agree with the comment made above we do not help our veterans who fought to keep us free but will pay for abortions for those who play and don’t care – I want my tax dollars to help those that need it including our veterans and not for those who are out to destroy life – life begins at conception and we should not condone the vicious ending of a life – play the game pay the price.
Hillary is in her 278 trimester, is it to late?
Abe-
Ok, now did you REALLY do the math on that, or did you just make it up?
It’s still funny, either way, imo.
More fascist liberals want FREE abortion and contraception procedures…..FREE everything, FREE college, FREE food, FREE housing, etc. etc. etc. It’s really sickening to see what the democratic party has become…..the new socialist party of the U.S.A. Take a look at Venezuela…the people are now starving..not enough to eat because they relied on oil revenue to give the population FREE stuff. Now they can’t afford to continue because they have run out of other peoples’ money and the oil revenues have dropped due to the low price of oil. How about a country where most people work and enjoy the benefits of their own personal income, without the government taking most of it. That will not be possible if the clintons are put back in the WH…you can bet they both will be running the country!!!
God help those unborn babies. It’s horrible issues like this that make tax payers furious! Why should we have to pay for killing a baby when we don’t defend abortion, nor do we agree with abortion? If a woman has a right to choose, than someone needs to teach her the right to keep her legs together and tell her baby donor NO!
How about remembering THE TEN COMMANDMENTS Are Not A Multiple Choice. Time for all people to stand for morals and bring God back into our lives. This country was founded on Christian principals so let’s stand on our morals and choose a person that believes. Not a Hillary that believes in killing babies,soldiers ,ambassador and staff and then said ,”what difference does it make”. Vote Trump
I believe that abortion should be legal and the only thing that any government agency ( federal, state or local ) should have to do with it is make sure it is done in a safe manner and appropriate federal guide lines are followed. It is a choice that a women or couple makes and they have to live with the their choice but under no circumstance should tax dollars, Medicade or Medicare be used to pay for it.
RM Since the Planned Parenthood fights laws that try to get what you say you want, You should join us in defunding Planned Parenthood or quit lying.
This is what is at stake in this election. Hillary, “the great advocate of children,” will stop at nothing to see that abortion providers get rich off slaughtering unborn babies.
Once the Hyde amendment is gone look for abortion clinics to raise their rates as they loot the federal treasury. There is only one thing the abortion industry likes more than killing babies–getting rich doing it.
If anyone should have gotten an abortion it should have been the Mother of every democrat who supports Abortion! I realize that when their Mothers were pregnant it wasn’t legal! Hey as far as I am concerned killing unborn babies is as evil as it gets. I know a couple who aborted a baby that was so deformed that the Doctors said it would not survive outside the womb. That is different. God was watching over them and rewarded them a happy healthy baby!
For some of us we can get maturity medical costs paid for. No abortions are paid for.
Lois-
i’ll presume you meant “maternity” instead of “maturity,” but i could go for having free medical care past, say, 65 or so!
Abort as many liberals as possible. Seems like poetic justice.