Family Council Joins Letter Urging Congress, President to Stand By the Hyde Amendment
On Friday, Family Council joined more than 70 other pro-life leaders and organizations in a letter urging President Trump and leaders in Congress to preserve the Hyde Amendment when it comes to Obamacare subsidies.
As we wrote nearly 10 years ago, the Hyde Amendment is a longstanding, bipartisan compromise that generally prevents federal money from paying for abortions. Experts estimate the Hyde Amendment has saved more than 2.6 million unborn children. However, that lifesaving compromise has recently come under attack.
Last week, amid calls from President Trump for Republicans to be “a little flexible” on the Hyde Amendment, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a three-year extension of the enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies without Hyde’s protections preventing publicly funded abortion.
In response, Americans United for Life’s Government Affairs Director, Brad Kehr, called the decision “the largest ever expansion of taxpayer funding for abortion.”
National Right to Life issued a statement, saying, “No federal dollar should ever pay for abortion. Not one. House members who walked away from that principle betrayed the children we fight for and the voters who trusted them. The Senate must stop this bill.”
In response, a coalition of pro-life organizations and leaders — including Family Council — sent a letter to President Trump, Vice President Vance, Speaker Mike Johnson, and Senate Majority Leader John Thune urging them to stop public tax dollars from paying for abortions under Obamacare.
The letter says in part:
The Hyde Amendment is at the core of protecting and supporting life. It has saved 2.64 million lives since its bipartisan enactment in 1976. Even today, a nearly 60% majority of Americans do not want their tax dollars to pay for abortion or abortion coverage. Hyde policies are applied extensively to federal programs and have been over the last nearly fifty years.
Please stand with all Americans who do not want to be forced to pay for abortions. Americans elected a Republican trifecta in 2024, and Congress should not now scorn their widespread support by forcing Americans to fund abortion through a “flexibility” on Hyde.
Pro-abortion groups have often said, “If you don’t like abortion, don’t have one.” But without the Hyde Amendment, even if you don’t like abortion and don’t have an abortion, you could still be forced to pay for an abortion with your taxes. We must stand up for the Hyde Amendment.
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