President's Budget Lifts Restrictions on DC Abortions

President's Budget Lifts Restrictions on DC Abortions

On April 10 President Obama lifted restrictions on Washington, D.C.’s use of local funds to provide insurance coverage for abortion to low-income women and for easing restrictions on abortion coverage for some Peace Corps volunteers, the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health (NLIRH) said in a statement. However, NLIRH expressed disappointment that the President’s budget retains the harmful Hyde Amendment, a 40-year-old policy that withholds coverage for abortion for women enrolled in Medicaid.