Reposted by Andrea Grimes
Today is the 50th anniversary of the Hyde Amendment, the deadly ban on federal funding of abortion that has shaped the lives of over a million low-income women.
For @motherjones.com, this excerpt of my book explains why the death of Roe started w/ Hyde:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The infuriating history of the law that doomed abortion rights
The men behind the Hyde Amendment saw it as their ticket to paradise.