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Congress has made some exceptions to the funding ban, which have varied over the years. At present, the federal Medicaid program mandates abortion funding in cases of rape or incest, as well as when a pregnant woman's life is endangered. Hyde/Weldon Conscience Protection Amendment Currently, supporters of abortion are exploiting gaps in the existing laws. A nationwide campaign is underway to force all health care providers to participate in...
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It has been 40 years since the Hyde Amendment first passed Congress and restricted our federal tax dollars from being used to pay for Medicaid abortions. A quick trip through the interwebs would have you believing that this is a grim anniversary -- one that marks a policy that denies access to poor women who not only have a "right" to abort their unborn children but should be able to do so with federal funds. But the reality doesn't support that bleak depiction. Children, no matter what their parents' income or zip code may be, deserve access to life. Most mothers would rather be given free...
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The late Cardinal Francis George, then President of the U. S. Bishops’ conference, opposed the ACA as passed. Along with other problems, the law “would expand the role of the federal government in funding and facilitating abortion and plans that cover abortion” and failed to include “essential conscience protections (both within and beyond the abortion context).” Broad language in the ACA became the basis on which the Obama Administration in 2011 issued a rule—commonly called the Contraceptive Mandate—requiring coverage in...
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Since 1976 this policy has enjoyed bi-partisan support and has been embodied in the Hyde Amendment and other policies governing funding. However, there are inconsistencies in its application and most of these policies including the Hyde Amendment must be renewed every year. H.R. 7 will correct these inadequacies. What is more, there is a long-standing consensus in our nation – even among those who identify...
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In recent years, the need to protect conscience rights has increased significantly. Beginning in the 1990s, some at the federal level sought to require medical schools to provide training for abortion, and to require federal employees' health plans to provide benefits for contraceptives with abortifacient properties. In the face...
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RU-486: Chemically Induced Abortion...
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A 1996 law prohibits governmental discrimination against health care entities because they decline to train in, perform, or arrange for abortions. This law, however, was subjected to narrow interpretations that limited protection to the medical training context. In 2004, through passage of the Hyde/Weldon Amendment as part of the Labor/Health and Human Services Appropriations Bill,...
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