Abortion
Under decades-old Hyde Amendment, millions of Americans already live in a 'post-Roe' world
People whose maternal care depends on federal dollars can’t get abortions under the Hyde Amendment. What will the end of Roe hold for them?
Nada Hassanein and Eli Marcel Cahan
USA TODAY
Rachael Lorenzo tried to seek an abortion after doctors found a pregnancy complication that would likely lead to a miscarriage.
But the clinic on the Acoma Pueblo, an Indigenous community in west central New Mexico, didn’t offer abortions. Clinicians said to wait until the miscarriage occurred naturally.
“That experience was incredibly traumatizing,” Lorenzo said, recalling the miscarriage in 2013.