Analysis
Tracking Trump's executive orders: Hyde Amendment
Executive Order 14182: Enforcing the Hyde Amendment
Date Signed: January 24, 2025
Key Provisions:
- Executive Order 14182 will federally enforce the Hyde Amendment, a rule that prevents federal funding for elective reproductive care
- The EO explains that “it is the policy of the United States, consistent with the Hyde Amendment, to end the forced use of Federal taxpayer dollars to fund or promote elective abortion”
- Executive Order 14182 revokes two Biden era policies that protected access to reproductive health services
Interfaith Alliance Counterpoints:
- Interfaith Alliance strongly supports the right to reproductive access, and we believe it should be available as an essential health-care right.
- We reject the idea that there should be an exception to the United States’ support of tax-payer healthcare simply because it refers to reproductive health.
- We will continue to lift up an interfaith voice that supports the right to reproductive care and rejects the use of religious exemptions to deny women their legally protected right to an abortion.
- Enforcing the Hyde Amendment would greatly diminish our country’s public health and would prevent federal resources from supporting reproductive freedom.
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The Trump Administration’s Latest Attacks on Muslim Community Leaders
After months in detention, we finally received the good news that Ohio chaplain Ayman Soliman was released from jail as the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) dropped his deportation case. Soliman was an interfaith chaplain at a children’s hospital and a longtime leader of the Ohio Muslim community with deep ties to interfaith work across the state. As ProPublica reported, Soliman’s asylum status was restored and his application for a green card was revived. This news came through the dedicated hard work and advocacy of many organizations, particularly CAIR-Ohio and his colleagues at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, who were fired for speaking out on his behalf.
Mahmoud Khalil’s deportation case has alarming implications
Earlier this year, during the holy month of Ramadan, ICE agents followed Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil home after he broke his fast and forcibly detained him without a warrant. Khalil, a Palestinian activist, was then disappeared into an unmarked vehicle and taken to an unknown location as his pregnant wife watched and pleaded for information. It was later revealed that Khalil had been moved to a detention center in Jena, Louisiana, where he faced deportation. He was held for over three months in poor conditions, missing his graduation and the birth of his first child.
True Religious Freedom Means Protecting Our Faith Leaders, Not Detaining Them
In early July, Ayman Soliman, a former Cincinnati Children’s Hospital chaplain, was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after his asylum status was terminated in June. In response, local faith leaders organized a prayer vigil, rally, and peaceful march; during the march at least 15 protesters were detained by local police and charged with felony rioting.