Federal Budget & Abortion: Hyde Amendment Should Be Preserved

President Biden has released a budget that proposes killing the Hyde amendment, America’s most important pro-life public policy.

For more than four decades, the Hyde amendment, an annual budget rider, has prohibited federal Medicaid funding of abortion except in rare circumstances. For most of that time, Joe Biden supported the Hyde amendment. “The government should not tell those with strong convictions against abortion, such as you and I, that we must pay for them,” Biden wrote to a…