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Hyde Amendment revised.

1978

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The revisions continue to deny Medicaid funding for abortion, but add exceptions for cases of incest and rape, in addition to the original exception for cases of life endangerment for the pregnant person.

These exceptions will be removed two years later, and then added back in the 1990s.