Harris v. McRae

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In Harris v. McRae, 448 U.S. 297 (1980), the U.S. Supreme Court held by a narrow 5-4 margin that the U.S. Constitution does not require government or taxpayer funding of abortion. The Court upheld the constitutionality of the Hyde Amendment, a federal law prohibiting the expenditure of federal monies to pay for abortion.

Justice Potter Stewart wrote the decision, joined by Chief Justice Warren Burger and Justices Byron White, Lewis Powell and William Rehnquist. Four liberal Justices dissented.

The narrow 5-4 margin of this decision surprises many to this day, as the Court came within one vote from declaring that the Constitution requires taxpayer-funded abortion.