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Article: Native women's group questions IHS enforcement of Hyde Amendment.
- Article from:
- Wicozanni Wowapi-Good Health Newsletter
- Article date:
- January 1, 2003
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Native American women, being largely low-income and depending on the Indian Health Service (IHS), suffer dually from the Hyde Amendment, which limits federal funding of abortions to cases of rape, incest, or life endangerment, and which is inconsistently applied by IHS according to the Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center (NAWHERC).
NAWHERC, along with representatives from the National Abortion Federation (NAF), held a briefing in Washington Oct. 23, telling legislative staffers that of all the IHS Service Units surveyed in it's new study, 62 percent "stated that in cases where the woman's life is endangered by the pregnancy, they do not ...