President’s budget proposal seeks to end Hyde amendment that limits insurance coverage of terminations for nearly 8m women
For the first time in nearly 30 years, a US president has released a budget that doesn’t ban federal funding for abortion.
On Friday Joe Biden released his full budget proposal for fiscal year 2022, and in keeping with his campaign promise on abortion access, Biden did not include the Hyde amendment, an annual budget rider that bans federal Medicaid money from being used for almost all abortions. (There are exceptions for pregnancies resulting from rape or incest or that would threaten the pregnant person’s life.)
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