Nothing Changes If Hyde Stands
Americans are overwhelmingly in favor of national health care reform. But would the type of reform proposed by presidential candidate Barack Obama have any impact on the options for economically disadvantaged women facing unwanted pregnancies? Without a repeal of the Hyde Amendment, which bans federal funding for abortion care, the likely answer to that question is no. Two years after health care reform in Massachusetts — a reform that strongly resembles Obama’s proposal — was signed into
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