Patty Skuster, J.D., M.P.P., is a Policy Associate for Ipas, an international organization that works to increase women’s ability to exercise their sexual and reproductive rights and to reduce deaths and injuries of women from unsafe abortion. For more information about the Hyde Amendment and human rights, see this fact sheet, www.healthlaw.org, www.ipas.org, and www.hyde30years.nnaf.org. Get the Latest on Women's Issues