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By Jennifer Popik, J.D., Director of Federal Legislation Editor’s note. This appeared in the November issue of National Right to Life News which was published last week. Republicans have since secured control of the House of Representatives, a huge victory. At the...
By Raimundo Rojas, Outreach & Events Director National Right to Life In 2009, America felt tired. Almost 10 percent of the workforce was unemployed, and the housing crash caused work stoppage at many construction sites. Work dried up. Families stretched groceries,...
WASHINGTON, D.C.— On Thursday, Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Co-Chair of the Congressional Pro-Life Caucus and stalwart defender of mothers and the unborn, debated on the House floor on the need to apply Hyde Amendment protections to pending legislation that would extend...
The Charlotte Lozier Institute Lozier report is based in part on a calculation of the law’s impact on programs that would otherwise have funded elective abortions. By Calvin Freiburger WASHINGTON, D.C. — The federal Hyde Amendment has saved more than 2.5 million lives...
Since September 30, 1976, this life-saving provision has protected the conscience of American taxpayers and spared over 2.6 million children from abortion. We honor the legacy of the late Rep. Henry Hyde, a true champion for the voiceless. His courage laid a...
By Dave Andrusko On September 30, 1976—49 years ago today —the original Hyde Amendment was passed. We rightly celebrate that victory engineered by Rep. Henry Hyde, then a freshman congressman from Illinois. But enforcement was another matter. On October 22, 1976,...
Indiana Right to Life recently joined 88 pro-life organizations calling for Congress to include Hyde amendment protections with any changes to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to protect taxpayers from being forced to pay for abortions. Co-signing groups include Susan B....
By Dave Andrusko via CBS News It is now part of the pro-abortion catechism that the Hyde Amendment must go. At first blush, that might seem wildly stupid on a number of grounds, besides the obvious fact that the public does not and never has wanted to pay for...
By Dave Andrusko Pro-abortion Democrats have always hated the Hyde Amendment. It sent a clear signal that taxpayer dollars would not go to underwrite elective abortions—a position supported for decades by opinion polls—and took away at least two million customers from...
As we commemorate Hyde’s 50th anniversary, we celebrate a landmark pro-life policy that stopped taxpayers from funding abortion and has helped save more than 2.6 million lives