During the 2016 presidential campaign, CT noted how candidate Hillary Clinton's pledge to repeal the Hyde Amendment,
banning federal funding for abortion, turned off pro-life Democrats.
Last week Republicans introduced legislation to
ban all federal funding for abortion.
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Obama rescinded the
ban on
federal funds for overseas
abortion providers and signed a healthcare law that many conservatives say subsidizes
abortion, though the law's supporters say it respects the
federal ban on
abortion funding.
On the pro-life side,
ban abortions after 20 weeks (with an exception
for the mother's life) and make permanent the long - standing and bipartisan - crafted principles of the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits the direct
federal funding of
abortion.
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The ERLC has offered six pro-life priorities
for action by President - elect Trump and Congress in 2017, including the nomination and confirmation of a pro-life successor to the late Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia, a permanent
ban on all
federal funding of
abortion and the defunding of Planned Parenthood, the country's No. 1
abortion provider.
Trump has appointed a pro-life Supreme Court justice,
banned federal dollars from
funding abortion overseas, and signed a law allowing states to withhold
funding for abortion providers.
Trump has largely stood by his pro-life campaign promises, appointing conservative justice Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, signing a law allowing states to withhold
funding from Planned Parenthood, and reinstating a
ban on
federal funds for organizations that perform
abortions overseas.
In one of his first acts as president, Trump has reinstated a
federal ban on U.S.
funding for international health organizations that counsel women on family planning options that include
abortion.
Until 1987, when the Reagan administration issued the so - called gag rule, that provision consistently had been interpreted as a
ban on the use of Title X
funds to pay
for abortions, and the
federal regulations governing Title X did not otherwise reflect an antiabortion animus toward providers.
While the use of
federal funds for abortion has been
banned since the 1970s, and
for the entire history of the family planning program, that is only a technicality to Pence and his anti-
abortion allies.