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As of 1994, federal law mandates all states to pay for abortion cases involving rape or incest. [15] On January 24, 2017, the House voted to make the Hyde Amendment (H.R. 7) permanent. Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) stated, "We are a pro-life Congress", and he re-affirmed the government's commitment to restricting tax money to funding abortions. [17]
President Trump on Friday took a pair of actions to limit U.S. government funding for abortions, reversing some of the Biden administration’s efforts to increase access to the procedure. Trump ...
Abortion funds operate in a number of countries. The National Network of Abortion Funds (NNAF) is an umbrella group for local abortion funds in the United States, and operates the Tiller Memorial Fund. [3] The National Abortion Federation (NAF) operates a toll-free hotline for abortion funding and referrals in the United States and Canada. [7]
Republican lawmakers reintroduced a piece of legislation that would ban the use of federal funds for abortions or health coverage that includes abortion this week. If passed, the bill would ...
The No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act is a bill that was introduced to the 112th Congress of the United States in the House of Representatives by Rep. Chris Smith (R-New Jersey) and Dan Lipinski (D-Illinois). The bill's stated purpose is "[t]o prohibit taxpayer funded abortions and to provide for conscience protections, and for other purposes."
HHS announced plans to reevaluate agency practices to ensure they meet requirements under the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits federal funds from being used for elective abortions.
After the Supreme Court's landmark 1973 decision Roe v.Wade, anti-abortion activists began mobilizing at the federal level. [5] [1] One of the goals of the anti-abortion movement in the wake of Roe was to cut off all federal funding support for abortion care in order to reduce the availability of legal abortions.
In 2022, Oklahoma received the funding after complying with the rule, but after the Supreme Court's 2022 ruling that overturned abortion rights landmark Roe v. Wade, the state changed course.