Sanders Finally Catches up with Hillary & calls for Repeal of Hyde Amendment [View all]

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Wish I had seen this yesterday--should be LBN!

X-posted from the Hillary Group

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Sanders Finally Catches up with Hillary & calls for Repeal of Hyde Amendment http://www.nationofchange.org/news/2016/01/24/bernie-sanders-calls-for-repealing-the-hyde-amendment/ … #standwithPP #p2 #Hillary2016

By Bryce Covert -
January 24, 2016


http://www.nationofchange.org/news/2016/01/24/bernie-sanders-calls-for-repealing-the-hyde-amendment/

The Hyde Amendment is an obscure budget rider that bans any federal funding from covering abortion services, which means low-income women on Medicaid can’t use their plans to cover an abortion. It has also helped limit access for government employees, military personnel, those in the Peace Corps, and others. It’s become a routine piece of policy, renewed in every federal spending bill since 1976, and frequently becomes a political football, as when President Obama signed an executive order including restrictions along the lines of Hyde in the Affordable Care Act as a way to win support for the bill’s passage.

But now both frontrunners for the Democratic presidential nomination have come out against it, calling for it to be repealed. Hillary Clinton has repeatedly called for a reversal of Hyde, and now Bernie Sanders has followed suit.

On Friday, Sanders said in a statement, “Women must have full control over their reproductive health in order to have full control over their lives. We must rescind the Hyde Amendment and resist attempts by states to erect roadblocks to abortion.” Sanders has voted against the Hyde Amendment while serving in both the House and Senate, but his statement made his intentions clear to repeal it once and for all if elected. ....................



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