The Impact of Restricting Medicaid Financing for Abortion

If all states observed the Hyde Amendment restrictions, many thousands of Medicaid-eligible women who would have obtained abortions under the 1977 funding policy would not receive them--in addition to the 133,000 who could not get Medicaid-funded abortions in the year preceding the restrictions.

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Published in:Family planning perspectives 1980-05, Vol.12 (3), p.120-130
Main Authors: Trussell, James, Menken, Jane, Lindheim, Barbara L., Vaughan, Barbara
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Abortion
Abortion Applicants
Abortion, Legal - economics
Abortion/Abortions
Adult
Bioethics
Family planning
Federal Government
Female
Fund/Funds/Funding
Funding
Health care costs
Health surveys
Humans
Induced abortion
Judges
Medicaid
Medicaid - legislation & jurisprudence
Medicaid program
Population
Pregnancy
Restriction/Restrictions
United States
Womens health services
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Summary:If all states observed the Hyde Amendment restrictions, many thousands of Medicaid-eligible women who would have obtained abortions under the 1977 funding policy would not receive them--in addition to the 133,000 who could not get Medicaid-funded abortions in the year preceding the restrictions.
ISSN:0014-7354
DOI:10.2307/2134565