Pro-Life Group Calls for Return of Hyde Amendment, Launches Ad Campaign Targeting Lawmakers

A pro-life advocacy group has launched a six-figure digital ad campaign targeting two Democratic senators and six House members over their stance on abortion. 

Aimed at Democrats up for election, the ad hits amid a new push for the return of the once bipartisan Hyde Amendment that restricted taxpayer dollars from being used to pay for abortions. 

Focus is directed at Senators Raphael Warnock (D-GA) and Mark Kelly (D-AZ), both up for election in 2022, for having "an extreme abortion agenda" while supporting "painful late term abortions." 

Members of Congress that are also mentioned include Haley Stevens (D-MI), Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), Tom O'Halleran (D-AZ), Ron Kind (D-WI), Cindy Axne (D-IA), and Carolyn Bourdeaux (D-GA).

The advertisement, which is sponsored by the Susan B. Anthony (SBA) List, asserts that the lawmakers want to "overturn decades of bipartisan consensus that taxpayers shouldn't foot the bill for abortions." 

Once supported by President Biden when he was a senator, the Hyde Amendment has been included in budget bills for roughly 40 years.

Congress has renewed the law each year since 1976 in its annual budget bill, but that could be changing. 

In a letter to Congress from 22 state attorneys general, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall writes "the decision to reject the Hyde Amendment is an affront to state sovereignty."