{"id":43358,"date":"2016-10-04T17:07:17","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T22:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=43358"},"modified":"2016-10-04T17:07:17","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T22:07:17","slug":"pro-choicers-aim-to-lift-limits-of-40-year-old-federal-abortion-access-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/pro-choicers-aim-to-lift-limits-of-40-year-old-federal-abortion-access-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-choicers aim to lift limits of 40-year-old federal abortion access law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> By Anna Foley <\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"dropcap\">In 1976, Congress passed the Hyde Amendment, the law that placed heavy limitations on using federal money for abortion. The law\u00a0may have just turned 40, but it\u2019s still facing serious contention today.<\/p>\n<p>Pro-choice advocates say the law is particularly damaging to specific groups of American women and aim to repeal it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has a devastating effect across the country on low-income women, young women, women of color,\u201d said Amy Meeks, a women\u2019s reproductive rights attorney at American Civil Liberties Union Chicago.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Many of those women use Medicaid for their health insurance coverage. So on a federal level, the Hyde Amendment bars them from obtaining abortions, except in cases of rape, incest or a life-threatening condition. However, individual states have the option to expand the conditions of Medicaid-funded abortion services.<\/p>\n<p>So far, 17 states have done so, including Illinois. In 1994, a Cook County judge issued a <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.chicagotribune.com\/1994-12-03\/news\/9412030141_1_abortions-medicaid-funding-medical-necessity\" target=\"_blank\">court order<\/a> to include medically necessary abortions in services covered by Medicaid.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-43365\" src=\"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/women-graphic-1-144x300.png\" alt=\"abortiongraphic10042016\" width=\"144\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/women-graphic-1-144x300.png 144w, https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/women-graphic-1-491x1024.png 491w, https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/women-graphic-1.png 675w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 144px) 100vw, 144px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Despite that order, Illinois actually still pays for very few abortions. According to the Guttmacher Institute, the state only reported 371 publically funded abortions in 2010, the latest figure available. Meeks said the complexity of the state\u2019s reimbursement policy is partly to blame.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe federal reimbursements create this confusing billing mechanism, so a lot of people have this misconception,\u201d Meeks said. \u201cIt leads to Illinois covering very few abortions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nationally, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guttmacher.org\/about\/gpr\/2016\/07\/abortion-lives-women-struggling-financially-why-insurance-coverage-matters\">60 percent<\/a> of women of reproductive age receiving Medicaid live in states that do not pay for abortions, according to the Guttmacher Institute.<\/p>\n<p>That statistic could soon change with a bill called the Equal Access to Abortion Coverage Health Insurance Act of 2015, or the EACH Woman Act. The bill was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reproductiverights.org\/press-room\/congresswomen-introduce-historic-bill-to-ensure-coverage-of-abortion-services-for-all-women\">introduced<\/a> in July 2015, and has since amassed 124 co-sponsors.<\/p>\n<p>The EACH Woman Act would require the federal government to provide abortion services through Medicaid, as well as lift state and local restrictions on abortion. Essentially, it would repeal the 40-year-old Hyde Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>Illinois Rep. Jan Schakowsky, one of the act\u2019s co-sponsors, called it \u201cproactive legislation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen it was passed, Hyde was seen as untouchable,\u201d Schakowsky said. \u201cIt was simply accepted that federal funds could not be used for abortions. But conversations have changed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those conversations have already resulted in national policy changes. The 2016 Democratic Party\u2019s platform <a href=\"https:\/\/www.demconvention.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Democratic-Party-Platform-7.21.16-no-lines.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">explicitly called<\/a>\u00a0for repealing the Hyde amendment.<\/p>\n<p>Meeks said the Each WOMAN Act could have tremendous effects in Illinois, as every one out of five women in the state receive Medicaid.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-43366\" src=\"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/illinois-clinics-1-294x300.png\" alt=\"abortionclinic10042016\" width=\"294\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/WP%20Media%20Folder%20-%20medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/illinois-clinics-1-294x300.png 294w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/WP%20Media%20Folder%20-%20medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/illinois-clinics-1-768x785.png 768w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/WP%20Media%20Folder%20-%20medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/illinois-clinics-1.png 771w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yet despite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/114th-congress\/house-bill\/2972\" target=\"_blank\">support<\/a> on state and federal levels, the EACH Woman Act\u2019s goal is still polarizing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would be a serious violation of our democratic republic,\u201d said Eric Scheidler, executive director of the Chicago-based Pro-life Action League.<\/p>\n<p>Scheidler said repealing the Hyde Amendment, which was named for its sponsor and former Illinois Rep. Henry Hyde, would cause abortion rates to spike in the United States, at the expense of the taxpayer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe repeal of Hyde wouldn\u2019t solve any problems,\u201d Scheidler said. \u201cAbortion is promoted more and more as a solution to poor women. If repealed, that would make all of us complicit in abortion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meeks sees a reversal differently.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would eliminate misconceptions about what Medicaid really can and cannot do,\u201d she said. \u201cAbortion should be covered regardless of the source of [a woman\u2019s] health care.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"featurecaption\">Photo at top: Activists and abortion rights supporters gather in protest of Chicago&#8217;s annual March for Life chanting, &#8220;Our bodies, our lives, our right to survive!&#8221; (Aryn Braun\/MEDILL)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anna Foley In 1976, Congress passed the Hyde Amendment, the law that placed heavy limitations on using federal money for abortion. The law\u00a0may have just turned 40, but it\u2019s still facing serious contention today. 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