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Saving America’s most important pro-life policy could depend on the outcome of the Georgia Senate runoff elections and the 2022 midterms.

For over four decades, the Hyde amendment — an annual budget measure that prohibits the Medicaid program from providing federal funding of abortions, except in rare and limited circumstances — has been America’s most important pro-life public policy.

• Since 1977, the Hyde Amendment has banned the use of any federal funds for abortion, only allowing exceptions to pay for terminating pregnancies that endanger the life of the pregnant person or that result from rape or incest. • Among the 36 states that do not ban abortion, 19 states and DC follow the Hyde Amendment and 17 states use state funds to pay for abortions for women with low

Matthew Brogdon, Ryan Bell, Savannah Eccles Johnston and Derek Monson take part in a panel discussion about Ballot Initiatives in Utah, in Orem at UVU on Tuesday, September 17, 2024. On Sept. 17, 1787, delegates to the Constitutional Convention signed the U.S. Constitution in Philadelphia. Now more than 200 years later, the day is still commemorated across the country. And in Utah, panelists

A teen was critically injured after a shooting in Hyde Park Friday night, according to Chicago police.

A 16-year-old boy was in a park in the 700 block of East 53rd Street about 7:46 p.m. when two people approached him and one shot him multiple times, police said. The teen was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center in critical condition.

No one is in custody.

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