Senate 'Resolves' Fight over Abortion Provision in Sex Trafficking Bill

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Senate 'Resolves' Fight over Abortion Provision in Sex Trafficking Bill

After a month of arguing, the Senate has reached a weird little compromise that will allow a bill to pass that aids victims of sex trafficking. It got held up because Senate Republicans were concerned some of those sex trafficking victims might need abortion care.

That’s why Senate Republicans snuck anti-abortion language into the bill in March. The bill collects money from people convicted of trafficking and use that money to help victims; the Republican’ new language stipulated that the money would be restricted by the Hyde Amendment, the law which bans federal funding for abortion.

The “compromise,” as the New York Times reports, splits that funding money in two: half of it goes to a general fund and won’t be subject to abortion restrictions. But it also can’t be used for healthcare services of any kind for trafficking victims, only for things like legal aid, shelter, and counseling. The other half of the money can be used for healthcare and medical services, but it’s subject to the Hyde Amendment.

In other words, then, none of the money can legally be used for abortion care. That really doesn’t look like a compromise.



Read more: http://jezebel.com/senate-resolves-fight-over-abortion-provision-in-sex-tr-1699215547

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