Daines Celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the Hyde Amendment: “Every Life, Born and Unborn, is Valued”

• September 30, 2026

Sponsors Resolution Commemorating Hyde Amendment's Legacy

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Steve Daines today joined Americans United for Life at their September 30^th rally celebrating the 50^th anniversary of the Hyde Amendment. Originally enacted in 1976, this amendment has saved the lives of millions of unborn children and protected taxpayers from violating their conscience by funding elective abortions.

Daines today also joined Senator James Lankford (R-Okla.) in introducing a resolution to recognize the Hyde Amendment's legacy over the past 50 years. Read the resolution HERE.

Watch Daines' full remarks at the Americans United for Life rally HERE:

Read Daines' remarks as prepared for delivery:

Today marks the 50^th anniversary of the Hyde Amendment-one of the most consequential pieces of legislation in our nation's history that defends the unborn and taxpayer conscience.

The Hyde Amendment protects the constitutional right to religious liberty and affirms that federal funds cannot be used to fund abortions.

A majority of Americans support this.

And yet, pro-abortion advocates attempt to undermine Hyde daily.

In their own 2024-2025 report, Planned Parenthood reported that they received $832 million in federal funds through Medicaid and Title X.

This Medicaid funding was temporarily blocked for one year thanks to the Working Families Tax Cuts and Jobs act, which I was proud to support.

But one year has passed, and Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood has resumed again.

I will work with my colleagues in Congress to reinstate this ban and make it permanent.

We also need to educate the next generation about how dangerous the abortion pill is, for both babies and for the women who take it. This is the left's next battleground, and we can't let them win.

The grassroots movement, from our AUL doorknockers to the church ministries to the pregnancy clinics, is critically important.

Thank you to everyone here- you are true examples of what it means to fight for what's right, even when it's not easy.

And most importantly, we need your prayers.

Prayer is the most powerful tool that we have on our side.

I'll close with Jeremiah 1:5: "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I set you apart."

I'm hopeful that one day, by the grace of God, abortion will be unthinkable and every preborn child will be protected by law.

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Contact: Gabby Wiggins