The Healthcare Fight and the Hyde Amendment
Last week, a months-long fight over healthcare policy climaxed in the House of Representatives. Seventeen members from Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-Louisiana 4th) side of the aisle voted with Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York 8th) to advance his proposed Obamacare extension, breaking with their party and abandoning a bare-minimum commitment to the Hyde Amendment. The […]
CWALAC Opposes ACA Subsidies That Exclude Hyde Amendment Protections
For Immediate Release: January 7, 2026 | Contact: [email protected] WASHINGTON, DC – Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee (CWALAC) is calling on members of the U.S. House to reject expanding the Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies that do not include the Hyde Amendment protections. “We cannot be flexible on Hyde Amendment protections for the unborn. It has always been a […]
Trump Stands with Most Americans: No More Taxpayer Funding for Abortion
January 24, 2025, was a good day for life in the United States. Not only did President Donald J. Trump send a message of support to all of those in D.C. for the March for Life, but Vice President J.D. Vance was there in person to deliver his remarks. President Trump also signed an executive […]
The Assault on Hyde and Family: FY 2022 House Appropriations Update
Last week, the Democrat House Majority rammed through a federal budget stripped of all longstanding pro-life protections, including the Hyde Amendment. This tone-deaf political ploy effectively wrote a blank check to the abortion industry at home and abroad, leaving American taxpayers with the tab. Since the poisonous package is likely unpalatable in the Senate, the […]
CEO Penny Nance Implores Legislators to Protect Life
FOX News highlights a letter spearheaded by conservative leaders to encourage legislators to block federal funding of abortion. In the letter, Concerned Women for America CEO and President Penny Nance and other conservatives leaders call on lawmakers to defend life at all stages. Currently, pro-choice advocates seek to remove Hyde, which would allow our taxpayer […]
The Ongoing Fight to Protect Hyde
(Action item at the bottom of the post.) President Biden’s $6 trillion Fiscal Year 2022 budget proposal to Congress breaks over four decades of bipartisan precedent by removing the Hyde Amendment, a prohibition on federal funding of elective abortion through Medicaid, Medicare disability, and other programming under Health and Human Services appropriations. As Congress proceeds […]
Action Needed! Hyde Amendment at Stake
If you oppose the federal government using taxes from workers’ paychecks to fund the destruction of babies in the womb through abortion, call your member of Congress at 202-225-3121 and urge them to vote NO. Read why below. Senate Democrats Repeal Hyde Amendment in Massive New Spending Cloaked as “COVID Relief” As part of the […]
Pro-life Senators join House Members in Drawing the Line to Save Hyde
Forty-eight Republican Senators have penned a letter to Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York) pledging to oppose the rollback of longstanding protections in current law. Only Republican Senators Susan Collins (Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), both known for their pro-choice views, declined to sign. Much like President Donald Trump’s veto promise in the 116th Congress, […]
CWA Calls on Congress to Hold the Line on Life
Two hundred House Republicans sent a letter to House and Senate leaders today “to express our unified opposition to Congressional Democrats’ efforts to repeal the Hyde Amendment and other current-law, pro-life appropriations provisions.” They pledge to oppose any government funding bill that eliminates or weakens the Hyde Amendment or other pro-life appropriations protections in current […]
Concerned Women Today! The Fight to Keep the Hyde Amendment
Doreen Denny, CWA’s Vice President of Government Relations, takes you inside the U.S. House of Representatives to get a first-hand account of a hearing on the fight to keep the Hyde Amendment. Should American taxpayers be forced to pay for abortion? If the Democrats in Congress have their way, the answer is Yes. Listen to […]