Sen. Richard Blumenthal said Wednesday that the single-payer healthcare bill being backed by more than a dozen Senate Democrats would gut federal regulations that prohibit public funding from going toward most abortions.

“Women have been denied their healthcare needs for too long,” the Connecticut Democrat said at a press conference introducing the bill, the Medicare for All Act. “Consider the Hyde Amendment history when we pass Medicare for All.”

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