Hyde Amendment banning funding of abortion marks 50th anniversary

Oswald Clark, U.S. Correspondent: In response to the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, Illinois Republican U.S. congressman, Rep. Henry Hyde, introduced the Hyde Amendment banning the use of federal funds to pay for abortion through the Medicaid program, at a time when federal programs were estimated to be paying for 300,000 abortions annually. Hyde argued, “An innocent, defenseless human life, in a caring […]