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Title: ¡SIN SEGURO, NO MÁS! Without Coverage, No More: Latinxs Access to Abortion Under Hyde

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Publication Year: 2018

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Abstract: While Roe enshrined the right to safe, legal abortion in concept, it did nothing to ensure that those services would be available or affordable. The Hyde Amendment, passed yearly by Congress in federal appropriations legislation, bans federal funding for abortion except in cases of rape, incest, and life endangerment.2 As first introduced by Representative Henry Hyde III (R-IL) in 1976, it banned only federal Medicaid coverage of abortion. After the Hyde Amendment was introduced, and subsequently passed each year since, similar policies have proliferated throughout appropriations legislation, with similar amendments finding their way into nearly every spending bill. Currently, restrictions on abortion coverage deny affordable abortion services to a growing segment of the population, including: Medicaid-eligible individuals and Medicare and CHIP beneficiaries; Federal employees and their dependents; Peace Corps volunteers; Native American communities; individuals in federal prisons and detention centers, including those detained for immigration purposes; military personnel and veterans, use by the District of Columbia of its own funds for abortion coverage for low-income people.

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Authors: Jimenez, Rosie

Publisher: National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Other, Population Health and Health Systems

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