Senator Tuberville and Mr. Hyde

It wasn’t the gentleman from Alabama who threw the first hardball in the fight over military spending on abortions.

Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons
Representative Henry Hyde in 1998. Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons

In the battle between Senator Tommy Tuberville and President Biden in respect of abortion spending by the military, the Sun is on the side of Henry Hyde. He is gone, alas, but in his day he was the towering Republican congressman who won passage of what came to be called the Hyde Amendment. It is the law that prevents the federal government from spending money on abortions except in cases of rape, incest, or where the life of the mother is in danger.

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