Republicans Must Never Compromise on the Hyde Amendment

Representative Henry Hyde’s legacy is slipping away before our eyes.

Since 1977, Rep. Hyde’s hard-won and bipartisan Hyde Amendment has prohibited the taxpayer funding of abortion in healthcare bills and saved an estimated 2.6 million lives—despite repeated attacks from abortion-advocacy groups like the Guttmacher Institute. In 2010, an unrecognizable Democratic Party bulldozed this victory through Obamacare, which intentionally bypassed Hyde protections. Though Republicans tried and failed...