helms amendment
The amendment makes abortion essentially inaccessible for low-income women and many women of color.
“Making abortion legal isn’t the beginning of women having abortions. It’s the end of women dying from abortions,” said Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.).
The Guttmacher Institute analyzed the impact of rescinding the amendment, which bars U.S. foreign aid from being used to pay for abortions abroad.
The platform draft supports a repeal of the Helms Amendment, which blocks abortion access for women abroad.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
They want the president to make it easier for women raped in conflict to access abortions.
What is he waiting for?
They promised to allow foreign aid money to pay for abortions in cases of rape or incest or to save the mother.