The Hyde Amendment and Coverage for Abortion Services
Issue Brief
Since 1993 the Hyde Amendment has included exceptions for rape, incest and life endangerment. Public Law 103-112, 103rd Congress, 1993.
Democratic Platform Committee. (2020). 2020 Democratic Party Platform.
KFF estimates based on 2019 Census Bureau’s American Community Survey.
Boonstra H, Guttmacher Institute, Abortion in the Lives of Women Struggling Financially: Why Insurance Coverage Matters. Guttmacher Policy Review, vol. 19. (2016)
Guttmacher Institute. Induced Abortion in the United States, January 2018.
Jones RK, Ingerick M, Jerman J, Women’s Health Issues, Differences in Abortion Service Delivery in Hostile, Middle-ground, and Supportive States in 2014, January 2018.
Ibid.
Roberts SC, Gould H, Kimport K, Weitz TA, Foster DG, Women’s Health Issues, Out-of-Pocket Costs and Insurance Coverage for Abortion in the United States, March 2014.
Ibid.
Boonstra H, Guttmacher Institute, Abortion in the Lives of Women Struggling Financially: Why Insurance Coverage Matters July 2016.
Roberts SCM et al, BMC Women's Health Estimating the proportion of Medicaid-eligible pregnant women in Louisiana who do not get abortions when Medicaid does not cover abortion. volume 19, Article number: 78 (2019)
Jones SB, Weitz TA, Am J Public Health, Legal Barriers to Second-Trimester Abortion Provision and Public Health Consequences, April 2009.
The 14 states that reported not covering Mifeprex were Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, District of Columbia, Florida, Idaho, Kentucky, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, and Utah.
State Medicaid agencies are required to cover most drugs manufactured by companies participating in the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program, in exchange for significant rebates on drug purchases.
Salganicoff A, Sobel L, Ramaswamy A, KFF, Coverage for Abortion Services in Medicaid, Marketplace Plans and Private Plans, June 2019.
Jerman J, Jones RK and Onda T, Guttmacher Institute. Characteristics of U.S. Abortion Patients in 2014 and Changes Since 2008, May 2016.