Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has long championed abortion rights. And she has rarely done so more strongly than last month while defending the repeal of the Hyde Amendment, a historically bipartisan agreement prohibiting the use of taxpayer dollars for the killing of preborn babies.

At a press conference from the Capitol, Pelosi suggested one of the reasons why the public funding of abortion is justified is because poor women need abortions.

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