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Gaps in financial assistance.(Medicaid coverage for the poor does not pay for abortion)
Most women rely on insurance to help them pay for needed medical care. Many poor and low-income women, however, either have no health insurance or have coverage that specifically excludes abortion services. In 1991, for example, almost half of poor women aged 15-44 were covered by Medicaid, (115) but for many of these women, coverage did not include abortion services except in very limited circumstances. (116)
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Medicaid covers prenatal care and delivery services for eligible pregnant women, but coverage for abortions has been severely restricted since implementation in 1978 of the Hyde Amendment, which limited federal funding to ...
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