Cora McRae (pregnant Medicaid
recipient) v. Patricia Harris (U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services) -1980
McRae challenged the Hyde Amendment of 1976, which prohibits the federal Medicaid funding of abortions not necessary to preserve the woman�s life.
The Court upheld the Hyde Amendment.Similar to Maher v. Roe, the justices said that a woman's freedom of choice
did not carry with it "a constitutional entitlement to full financial
resources.�
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