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The Hyde Amendment is blocked for six months by the McRae vs. Mathews injunction.

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Led by the Reproductive Freedom Project, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), and Planned Parenthood, an injunction is filed on behalf of a pregnant Medicaid recipient and their health care providers.

However, the U.S. Supreme Court will vacate the injunction in August 1977–issuing two decisions that maintain state public funding limits for abortion care.