Some Congressmen have attempted to make Hyde protections more durable. Legislation authored by Rep. Chris Smith R-N. It would also forbid abortions at federal facilities, and block federally-subsidized health plans under the Affordable Care Act from covering abortions.
Members of Congress have also tried passing laws to fully defund Planned Parenthood. The House in barred Medicaid reimbursements at Planned Parenthood clinics in its major health care bill, but the legislation died in the Senate. The Senate in failed to pass an amendment by Sen. Rand Paul R-Ky. Amid the debate of how to defund Planned Parenthood, the number of abortions performed by the organization has gone up, even as the national abortion rate has declined, Israel said. In the fiscal year, Planned Parenthood affiliates collectively reported performing , abortions-the organization's highest number of abortions on record, she said.
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For example, those who oppose war on moral or religious grounds pay taxes that are applied to military programs. The congressional bans on abortion funding impose a particular religious or moral viewpoint on those women who rely on government-funded health care. Providing funding for abortion does not encourage or compel women to have abortions, but denying funding compels many women to carry their pregnancies to term. Nondiscriminatory funding would simply place the profoundly personal decision about how to treat a pregnancy back where it belongs -- in the hands of the woman who must live with the consequences of that decision.
These women are eligible, however, to receive all other pregnancy-related services. See Hope v. Perales , N. See Alaska v. Planned Parenthood , 28 P. Health Care Cost Containment Sys.
Rights v. Myers , P. Maher , A. Wright , No. Clinic for Women, Inc. Sec'y of Admin. Gomez , N. Ellery , No. BDV Mont. May 22, ; Right to Choose v. Byrne , A. Johnson , P. Dep't of Human Resources , P. Celani , No. SCnC Vt. May 26, ; Women's Health Ctr. Panepinto , S. In seven of these states, the bans have been challenged, but the courts have refused to order nondiscriminatory funding for abortions.
See Renee B. Florida Agency for Health Care Admin. Kurtz , No. June 12, ; Doe v. Childers , No. Dep't of Soc. Dep't of Pub. Welfare , A. Low-Income Women of Texas, Inc. In Indiana, a court rejected the claim that the state was required to cover abortions on the same terms as other pregnancy-related care, but did require that the state cover abortions for Medicaid-eligible women "whose pregnancies create serious risk of substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function.
See A Choice for Women, Inc. Stanley K. See, e.
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