New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy (D) included an incentive in his 2026 budget to draw abortionists to the state.
“With this budget, we will continue making historic progress in meeting our sacred obligations to the people of New Jersey,” he said. “We will confront our state’s greatest challenges — both honestly and responsibly. We will defend the fundamental rights and freedoms of every New Jerseyan, from voting rights to LGBTQ+ rights to reproductive rights to every right in between.”
Murphy declared that he will “never back down from defending women — and protecting their access to reproductive health care, and especially, their right to an abortion,” adding that the budget includes the “largest investment into protecting reproductive rights in our state’s history by fully funding women’s health care.”
He noted that the state is “facing a looming shortage of reproductive health care providers.”
“And, with this investment, New Jersey will get ahead of that challenge by creating a new pipeline for these professionals,” Murphy said.
Planned Parenthood called Murphy’s budget “bold,” stating in a news release that the proposed budget “reflects a clear understanding of the importance of reproductive health care as a fundamental right and a critical component of both public health and the state’s economic viability.”
The budget proposal follows President Donald Trump’s recent executive order to enforce the Hyde Amendment.
“For nearly five decades, the Congress has annually enacted the Hyde Amendment and similar laws that prevent Federal funding of elective abortion, reflecting a longstanding consensus that American taxpayers should not be forced to pay for that practice. However, the previous administration disregarded this established, commonsense policy by embedding forced taxpayer funding of elective abortions in a wide variety of Federal programs,” the order said. “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.”
