Black Women Activists Warn Democrats After Abortion Failure: 'Don't Count on Our Votes'
world due to its near-total abortion ban.technically remains in place, but the Hyde Amendment widens the already nearly insurmountable gap between the legal right to abortion and access to it.and Planned Parenthood have both expressed frustration that funding for Title X, a federal grant program dedicated to providing low-cost family planning services to low-income people, remains flat in the spending bill, too.
“With the constitutional right to an abortion hanging in the balance, this bill’s failure to make greater investments to expand access to family planning in the U.S. and around the world is inexcusable,” Planned Parenthood President Alexis McGill said in a statement on the spending bill. McGill also accused Congress members of using pregnant people’s health and rights as a political “bargaining chip.
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