The Hyde Amendment is a pro-life rider on all spending bills passed since 1976. Its language bars federal tax dollars from directly funding most abortions. Many tax dollars do still end up subsidizing abortion through various programs, but the Hyde Amendment is a significant restriction on federal funding of abortion.
The spending bill still includes $575 million for international "family planning" programs, $286 million for Title X, $32.5 million for the United Nations Population Fund, and $200 million for a "Gender Equity and Equality Action Fund." All of this spending will subsidize or promote abortion.
March for Life President Jeanne Mancini told CNA, “this bill still sends far too many of our tax dollars to abortion businesses like Planned Parenthood.” She did applaud pro-life legislators for making sure pro-life riders made it into the bill, though. She emphasized that language such as the Hyde Amendment "will continue to save lives."
