On Friday, Joe Biden became the first president in some three decades to submit a budget proposal excluding the Hyde Amendment, a rule that has blocked federal funds from going to abortion care for the 40 years it’s been in effect.
the abortion restriction. “I can’t justify leaving millions of women without access to the care they need and the ability to exercise their constitutionally protected right,” he said at the time.a president could have on a policy that essentially decides whether poor women have access to abortion. And so reproductive health advocates applauded Biden for keeping his
pledge to repeal Hyde. “For years, Black, Indigenous and people of color have organized to highlight abortion injustices that have disproportionately weighed on their shoulders, and today they have finally been heard,”
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