The Hyde Amendment has been attached to every federal appropriations bill for the Department of Health and Human Services since 1976.
How Liberal Senators Are Trying to Make a Bipartisan Abortion Measure Controversial
Amid the usual partisan infighting in Washington, there is one policy that for decades has won the approval of liberals and conservatives alike: prohibiting federal dollars from paying for abortions.
But now, a handful of liberal senators are backtracking on that commonsense and (up until this week) uncontroversial funding restriction.
The occasion on which they’ve chosen to pick this fight is on a bill to address human trafficking. Continuing to refuse to vote for cloture on Thursday, these senators have obstructed further consideration of the bill because it would prevent a new fund for trafficking victims from being used to pay for elective abortions, except in cases of rape, incest or when the life of the mother is in danger.
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