The pro-life movement is rejecting President Donald Trump’s admonition to be “a little bit flexible” on the Hyde Amendment, a policy which prohibits taxpayer-funded abortion.

“You’ve got to be a little bit flexible on Hyde,” Trump told House Republicans at their Members Retreat Tuesday.

"You've got to be a little flexible on Hyde," Trump told House Republicans, many of whom have been fighting to ensure the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits taxpayer funding for abortion, makes it in the healthcare deal.

The Hyde Amendment is federal policy, and Congress has enacted it each year since 1976 as part of appropriations legislation.

Obamacare is currently exempted from the Hyde Amendment. Many Republicans in Congress have said they will not support a health care deal without the policy in place to prevent federal subsidies from funding abortion coverage in health plans.

“To suggest Republicans should be ‘flexible’ is an abandonment of this........

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