The current ban, the Hyde Amendment, has been in place since 1981.

Though he was surprised to win that vote, the Hyde Amendment, as it came to be known, has been part of federal law ever since.

The Hyde amendment does not treat the third trimester differently.

Under the Hyde Amendment, the federal government was prohibited from paying for abortion services.

Federal funding of abortion has been illegal under the Hyde Amendment for almost two generations.

Mr. Clinton said during the campaign that he would work to repeal Hyde amendments.

Fact: The Hyde amendment prohibiting the use of federal funds for abortion applies to the law.

President Clinton, to his credit, tried to get Congress to rid the law of the Hyde amendment altogether.

Federal law bars any funding to directly finance elective abortions in accordance with the Hyde amendment.

Suddenly, they find piggybacked on the civil rights restoration bill the Hyde Amendment.