In a 238-183 vote yesterday, the House passed H.R. 7, known as the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act, which permanently prohibits taxpayer dollars from being used to pay for abortions in Obamacare health plans starting the next plan year.

Previously the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits federal money from being used to fund abortions through Medicaid, has been subject to annual renewal. Originally passed in 1976, three years after the Supreme Court legalized abortion in Roe v. Wade, the Hyde Amendment did not take effect until 1980 when it was affirmed by the Supreme Court. During those years between Roe and the implementation of the Hyde Amendment, federal tax dollars funded approximately 25 percent, or 300,000, of all U.S. abortions annually.

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