sentences:  In 1980, "Harris v. McRae" upheld the Hyde Amendment, ruling patients receiving Medicaid could only get an abortion if the pregnancy endangered their life or the life of their child.There weren't many cases fought on the U.S. Supreme Court level in the 1980s until the Webster v. Reproductive Health Services in 1989.In this decision, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a Missouri ban on abortions after 24 gestational weeks.