{"id":5083,"date":"2011-06-12T01:52:53","date_gmt":"2011-06-12T08:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5083"},"modified":"2011-06-12T01:52:53","modified_gmt":"2011-06-12T08:52:54","slug":"republicans-cant-hyde-on-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/12\/republicans-cant-hyde-on-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Can’t Hyde on Abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Republicans would like nothing better that to relegate the status of women’s reproductive rights back to the days of back alley butchers.  Rumor has it that RepubliCare, the plan with a built in death benefit, has adopted the coat hanger as the logo for their female division.  In a positive development, it appears that one of the earliest attempts to block women from abortion helps to prevent Republicans from outlawing all abortion at the state level, because to do so blocks the Republicans from Federal money that they say they will refuse, but crave like an addict seeking a fix.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Henry Hyde, a champion of the anti-abortion movement, might turn over in his grave if he knew that a provision of law he authored was an obstacle to individual states banning abortion.<\/p>\n

The Hyde Amendment, named for the Illinois Republican who served in Congress for 32 years and died in 2007, initially barred the use of certain federal funds, namely Medicaid health insurance for the poor, to pay for abortion<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

But the provision, which has been attached to U.S. spending bills since 1976, was changed in 1977 to allow exceptions for pregnancies that result from rape or incest.<\/p>\n

In a strange twist of fate, the Hyde Amendment — whose purpose was to deny federal funding for abortions — has become a stumbling block in efforts to stop abortions altogether, said Keith Mason, founder and president of the anti-abortion group Personhood USA.<\/p>\n

"A compromise in legislation that was part of the pro-life movement is the very hurdle that we have to overcome," he told Reuters.<\/p>\n

This week lawmakers in Louisiana’s state House effectively killed a bill that would have banned abortion outright. The author of that failed bill said lawmakers were put off by a state fiscal analysis that showed that $4.5 billion in federal funds could be at risk if the state criminalizes rape- and incest-related abortion, putting state law out of compliance with Hyde<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

"The Hyde Amendment, or rather the exception to the amendment, is our primary obstacle right now," Louisiana State Representative John LaBruzzo, who sponsored the bill, told Reuters\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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You can be sure that there will soon be a move afoot to remove the exception, possibly by sneaking it in as an amendment to something unrelated.  If you find it before I do, please let me know.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Republicans would like nothing better that to relegate the status of women’s reproductive rights back to the days of back alley butchers.  Rumor has it that RepubliCare, the plan with a built in death benefit, has adopted the coat hanger as the logo for their female division.  In a positive development, it appears that one […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}