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The Abortion Policy Hillary Clinton Keeps Talking About, Explained

by Tara Culp-Ressler Jan 12, 2016 9:05 am




CREDIT: AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton makes a point during the Brown & Black Forum, Monday, Jan. 11, 2016, in Des Moines, Iowa.



On the campaign trail this week, Hillary Clinton is zeroing in on a little-known federal policy that makes it nearly impossible for impoverished women to get an abortion.

Clinton has repeatedly referenced her support for repealing the Hyde Amendment, a decades-old budget rider that prohibits federal funding from covering abortion services. In practice, Hyde ensures that low-income women can’t use their Medicaid plans to pay for an abortion, leaving them stuck paying hundreds of dollars out of pocket for the procedure.

At a campaign rally in New Hampshire over the weekend, Clinton called for getting rid of the policy, which has been quietly approved in the budget appropriations process every year since 1976. She said it represents a law “making it harder for low-income women to exercise their full rights.”

“Any right that requires you to take extraordinary measures to access it is no right at all,” Clinton said at that event.

And on Monday evening, at the Brown & Black Presidential Forum at Drake University, Clinton reiterated her position that Congress should repeal the Hyde Amendment, referring to the right to access abortion as “a fundamental human right.”..........................

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1. I remember it well

....including Sanders voting against it.