The Protecting Life and Taxpayers Act guarantees that taxpayer dollars are not used for abortions by requiring all federally funded organizations to verify that they will not execute abortions, or provide funds to any other institution that performs them, with exceptions for incest, rape, and protecting the life of the mother.

Status: Introduced

Our Take:

The Hyde Amendment has stood as a commonsense safeguard to ensure that U.S. taxpayers are not forced to fund abortion through federal programs like Medicaid.

Yet today, some states, like Minnesota, are exploiting a loophole—using federal Medicaid funds for general healthcare services while diverting their own state dollars to cover abortions well beyond the exceptions of rape, incest, or life endangerment. This completely undermines the intent of the Hyde Amendment, allowing abortion-on-demand at taxpayer expense.

The Protecting Life and Taxpayers Act ensures any entity receiving federal funds may not perform abortions or funnel money to those that do. Under this bill, it won’t matter how a state shuffles the funds—if a provider wants any federal money, they must stay out of the abortion-on-demand business. 

If an entity chooses to perform abortions, it should do so either within the aforementioned exceptions, or do so without government assistance—not with taxpayer subsidies disguised as “family planning” or “women’s healthcare.”