text: That was certainly the script during the campaign. As with much of the script from that side of the campaign, it was a fig leaf over the facts.
  
  The Hyde Amendment is a legislative provision barring the use of federal funds to pay for abortion except to save the life of the mother, or if the pregnancy arises from incest or rape. It is not a permanent law but a "rider" been routinely attached to annual appropriations bills since 1976. While generally it only restricts Department of Health and Human Services funds, primarily affecting Medicaid, it’s not restricted to poor women on Medicaid.
  
  The 2016 Democratic platform marked the first explicit promise to repeal the Hyde Amendment.
  
  The subjects of abortions are not dead “a very small amount”, and one abortion with Federal funds is too many from the perspective of Catholic morality.