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The overhaul swirl of late has been focused largely on medical costs, insurance regulation, coverage mandates and the like. One pivotal issue has gotten less attention: abortion.<\/p>\nThe overhaul swirl of late has been focused largely on medical costs, insurance regulation, coverage mandates and the like. One pivotal issue has gotten less attention: abortion.<\/p>\n
Republicans remain opposed to the health-care revamp, whether or not the legislation bans the use of federal money for abortion. But as many as a dozen Democrats in the House \u0096 a big number in this showdown \u0096 could vote against the overhaul if it doesn\u0092t contain stiffened abortion restrictions like what House passed in November, Rep. Bart Stupak has said.<\/p>\n
There’s no solution to the impasse yet, but Democratic leaders are urging their fold to avoid making abortion a deal breaker. \u0093This is not about abortion,” said Speaker Nancy Pelosi said yesterday, the Associated Press<\/a> reported. “This is a bill about providing quality affordable health care for all Americans.”<\/p>\n But the divide remains. Actually, neither camp on the abortion issue like mild abortion restrictions that passed the Senate in December, which is supposed to serve as the basis for the final legislation. <\/p>\n \u0093Abortion rights advocates have grown increasingly convinced that the language would restrict the reach of abortion coverage nearly as much as the Stupak language in the House bill passed in December,\u0094 the Washington Post<\/a> said this morning. (The Stupak measure would require abortion coverage to be purchased separately to avoid using federal subsidies for health insurance.) <\/p>\n Politico<\/a> reported that Roman Catholic bishops have signaled that they could reach agreement with House leaders on anti-abortion language, the church would work to get the votes needed to protect those provisions in getting through the Senate. Approval in the Senate of abortion provisions still would need 60 votes to avoid GOP attempts to block it.<\/p>\n The overhaul swirl of late has been focused largely on medical costs, insurance regulation, coverage mandates and the like. One pivotal issue has gotten less attention: abortion. Republicans remain opposed to the health-care revamp, whether or not the legislation bans the use of federal money for abortion. But as many as a dozen Democrats in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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