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In reply to the discussion: Hillary Clinton Answer On Abortion Leaves 'Pro-Life' Senator Speechless [View all]DrKZ
(53 posts)The original Hyde Amendment passed in 1976 but because of the 1973 decision on Roe V Wade Congress altered the amendment several times
In 1993 President Clinton signed into law the version of the Hyde Amendment which permits medicare medicaid funding only in cases of rape and inscest ... the National Abortion Federation and the ACLU felt that poor women were unduly and unreasonably targeted an and given the Clinton position on welfare reform was a horrible travesty that resulted in all sorts of inequities that persist today
In the ACA there was going to be a problem with Representative Stupak who introduced the Stupack-Piitts amendment ... ultimately without getting into too much detail the Hyde Amendment was placed in the ACA (affirming it would extend into the new law).