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In reply to the discussion: Joe Biden's long evolution on abortion rights still holds surprises [View all]progressoid
(49,944 posts)18. 18 to 33 percent of Medicaid-eligible women who want abortions are now forced to give birth
1. The laws impact is limited almost entirely to poor women. The late Henry Hyde (R-IL), the conservative congressman who first proposed the amendment, acknowledged this reality during a Medicaid funding debate in 1977, when he told his colleagues:
2. About 42 percent of women who have abortions live below the poverty line. The unintended pregnancy rate among poor women is five times the rates for higher-income women, as is the abortion rate. One reported reason for the discrepancy is poor womens limited access to contraception.
3. By restricting Medicaid funding for abortion, one in four low-income women who would like to obtain abortions are instead forced to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term. Since the Hyde Amendment was enacted more than 35 years ago, over one million women have been unable to afford abortions.
...https://billmoyers.com/content/five-facts-you-should-know-about-the-hyde-amendment/
I certainly would like to prevent, if I could legally, anybody having an abortion: a rich woman, a middle-class woman or a poor woman. Unfortunately, the only vehicle available is the Medicaid bill.
2. About 42 percent of women who have abortions live below the poverty line. The unintended pregnancy rate among poor women is five times the rates for higher-income women, as is the abortion rate. One reported reason for the discrepancy is poor womens limited access to contraception.
3. By restricting Medicaid funding for abortion, one in four low-income women who would like to obtain abortions are instead forced to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term. Since the Hyde Amendment was enacted more than 35 years ago, over one million women have been unable to afford abortions.
...https://billmoyers.com/content/five-facts-you-should-know-about-the-hyde-amendment/
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Did Joe Biden or any other Democratic candidate endorse and campaign for him...no.
Demsrule86
Jan 2020
#50
Kelly Robinson, Planned Parenthood Action Fund's executive director seems to see it differently
melman
Jan 2020
#13
And I would argue that he has changed his position on the compromise because...
Salviati
Jan 2020
#28
It was a compromise...and the pure among us should consider...the GOP would have won on
Demsrule86
Jan 2020
#15
This all or nothing mentality is quite corrosive. People forget we are supposed to be compromsing
UniteFightBack
Jan 2020
#45
18 to 33 percent of Medicaid-eligible women who want abortions are now forced to give birth
progressoid
Jan 2020
#18
Candidates who have been in politics for a significant length of time
The Velveteen Ocelot
Jan 2020
#54