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The Hyde Amendment: Disproportionately Affecting Minority Women Since 1976

Posted on October 22, 2014 by Ana Singh

In 1976, just three years after the Supreme Court’s groundbreaking decision in Roe v. Wade, Republican congressman Henry Hyde attached a little-known amendment to a Health and Human Services appropriations bill that would shift the course of reproductive justice in the United States for decades to come. The Hyde Amendment banned the use of federal […]

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