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President Joe Biden speaks at the Sportrock Climbing Centers in Alexandria, Va., on May 28, 2021. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images) President Joe Biden’s $6 trillion budget proposal for 2022 notably excludes the Hyde Amendment , a law that has for decades blocked federal funding for abortions under Medicaid, unless the unwanted pregnancy endangers the mother’s life or was the result of incest or rape.
Before the Hyde Amendment took effect in 1980, an estimated 300,000 abortions were performed each year using taxpayer funds. Since the amendment is a “rider” to the annual appropriations bill and not permanent law, it must be renewed by Congress each year, giving lawmakers the opportunity to modify its language or do away with it entirely.
Republicans have unsuccessfully sought to make the ban permanent, while Democrats have tried to scrap the prohibition. Biden’s decision to exclude the amendment from his budget proposal sets up a possible fight in Congress, with Republicans likely to argue for its inclusion.
“It breaks with decades of settled precedent by calling for direct taxpayer-funded abortion ,” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Friday, commenting on Biden’s move.
Groups advocating for easier access to abortion hailed the exclusion of the Hyde Amendment, […]
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