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Katko said through a spokeswoman that his vote reflected longstanding bipartisan support for the Hyde Amendment, prohibiting the use of any federal funds for abortion.

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.

The new legislation is unnecessary because the Hyde Amendment already prohibits the use of federal funds for abortion except in extreme, rare circumstances.

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Some of these centers (fewer than half) offer abortion services, but none actually uses federal funds to perform abortions, since using those funds for that purpose is already illegal.

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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She has also advocated for ending the pro-life Hyde Amendment, first enacted in 1976 and passed in some form ever since, which prevents taxpayer funding of elective abortions through federal programs like Medicaid.

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But that largely changed this year after most pro-life Democrats voted for the federal healthcare bill that many abortion opponents say allows for federal funding of abortion.

A recent law prohibits federal funds from paying for most abortions, but Planned Parenthood — which, among other services, is a major abortion provider (3 percent of their services are abortions)-- has received hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding — legally, much of that can not be used on abortions.

While federal funds can not be used for abortions, Planned Parenthood reports that half of its patients use Medicaid to cover other services like birth control.

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The rule — first implemented by President Reagan at a 1984 conference in Mexico City — prohibits international family planning organizations from receiving federal funds unless they agree not to perform or counsel for abortions or lobby in order to liberalize the pro-life policies of foreign governments.

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.

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.

At issue, is a piece of legislation regarding federal funding for abortion, specifically the language regarding rape victims who want an abortion.

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Members of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice held a news conference calling on the Senate to alter language in the House bill that places explicit restrictions on federal funding for abortion.

«The present language in the Senate bill provides a tremendous loophole for federal funds of abortion and will eventually expand abortion services,» he said.

The survey, which also served as a fund - raising letter for the DNC, asks about such issues as the economy, environment, raising the federal minimum wage to $ 15 an hour, getting «weapons of war off our streets,» electoral reform, abortion rights, and gay and transgender rights.

On 2 March, representatives from 50 countries met in Brussels at the invitation of She Decides, an initiative to push back against the so - called global gag rule, which denies US federal funding for non-governmental organisations that provide or discuss abortions.

On 2 March, representatives of more than 50 countries met in Brussels at the invitation of She Decides, an initiative launched by Dutch minister Lilianne Ploumen to push back against the so - called global gag rule, which denies US federal funding for non-governmental organisations that provide abortions or discuss the procedure.

Federal funding for such research was cut off in 1988 in response to political pressure from opponents of abortion.

Second, President Obama signaled his intention to repeal a rule promulgated in the last days of the Bush administration that codified previous law ensuring that no health care providers at institutions receiving federal funds should be discriminated against for refusing to participate in abortion or sterilization procedures.

Mr. Bush vetoed the bill because it would have allowed federal funding of abortions for victims of rape and incest — a provision anti-abortion House members had kept out of appropriations bills for almost a decade.

He also supports federal funding of Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers, leading Planned Parenthood to refer to him as «the REAL pro-choice candidate for governor.»

That all changed at the end of 2014 when, after months of negotiations, the U.S. Congress finally passed a funding bill with bipartisan support that amended this policy to ensure that Peace Corps Volunteers have equitable coverage for abortion in cases of rape, incest, and to protect the life of the woman, consistent with the coverage that federal employees and women serving in the military receive.

6 states have a priority system for the distribution of family planning funds — including federal funds distributed by a state agency — that disadvantages family planning centers or agencies associated with the provision of abortion services.

In 1987, the Reagan administration issued what came to be known as the «gag rule,» which barred recipients of federal family planning funds from counseling or referring patients for abortion, and which required physical and financial separation between contraceptive and abortion services.

People on this type of assistance can't use federal funding for abortion because of an unfair federal policy called the Hyde Amendment (which has very narrow exceptions).

For more than 30 years, federal tax dollars have not funded abortions in the United States except in the rarest of cases, and Planned Parenthood is subject to routine audits to ensure that public and charitable funds are being used in compliance with the law.

This orchestrated effort led, predictably, to state and federal calls to end funding for all Planned Parenthood services — more than 95 % of which involve such things as contraception and screening for sexually transmitted diseases, rather than abortion.

Rep. Lois Capps (D - CA) said, «If we really want to reduce the need for abortions and reduce the federal deficit, we should double the funding for family planning and preventive care, not eliminate it as is being called for by anti-choice members of Congress.

Cruz has been nearly monomaniacal in his fervor against abortion — even attempting to shut the government down again in 2015 over federal funding for Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest provider of reproductive health care.

Abortion opponents, outraged by a series of hidden - camera videos that depict Planned Parenthood employees discussing fetal tissue donation, have called for Congress to investigate Planned Parenthood and strip the organization of the more than $ 500 million in federal funding it receives each year.

Mike Pence of Indiana became the first lawmaker to call for a cutoff of Planned Parenthood's federal funds due to its abortion services.

Yet the federal funds in question do not cover abortion care, and thus none of Planned Parenthood's abortion services — which, nationwide make up roughly 3 % of its work — are paid for through the state's family - planning budget.

Under a series of laws including the Hyde amendment, none of the federal funds can be used for abortions, which account for 3 percent of the services Planned Parenthood provides.

Some critics of the Title X program oppose funding clinics that provide abortion, even if federal money goes for other services, such as treating sexually transmitted infections, said Susan Fogel, director of reproductive health at the National Health Law Program.

In addition, even federal regulations as restrictive as the Hyde Amendment say that although funding is not available for abortions, it is available for «drugs or devices to prevent implantation of the fertilized ovum.»

The June Coleman Fund is available for women seeking abortion services with a household income less than 250 % of the Federal Poverty Index, but not on a Maryland Medicaid plan.

Some politicians claim that ending support to Planned Parenthood is related to abortion services, knowing full well that because of the Hyde amendment there has been no federal funding of abortion services except for very narrow exceptions for nearly four decades — and that low - income women have been prevented full access to abortion as a result.

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.

These limits exist alongside the already burdensome Hyde Amendment, which bars federal Medicaid coverage of abortion in most circumstances; 35 states decline to extend state Medicaid funds to cover abortion beyond very limited circumstances.19 This increasingly restricted environment creates severe disincentives for insurers to contract with abortion providers — and specialized abortion providers in particular — and for providers to accept insurance if contracts are offered.

In 2017, four states found ways to limit certain family planning providers» eligibility for reimbursement under Medicaid, the federal - state program that contributes 75 % of all public funds spent on family planning services nationwide (see Public Funding for Family Planning and Abortion Services, FY 1980 — 2015).

(CNN) Donald Trump on Tuesday night once again sought to strike a softer tone on Planned Parenthood, paying tribute to its «very good work for millions of women» while also keeping up a threat to cut off federal funding to the organization if it continues to offer abortion services.