National Right to Life Committee statement on Harry Reid Medical Bill’s abortion language

Posted by Kendall Harmon

The manager’s amendment is light years removed from the Stupak-Pitts Amendment that was approved by the House of Representatives on November 8 by a bipartisan vote of 240-194. The new abortion language solves none of the fundamental abortion-related problems with the Senate bill, and it actually creates some new abortion-related problems.

NRLC will score the upcoming roll call votes on cloture on the Reid manager’s amendment, and on the underlying bill, as votes in favor of legislation to allow the federal government to subsidize private insurance plans that cover abortion on demand, to oversee multi-state plans that cover elective abortions, and to empower federal officials to mandate that private health plans cover abortions even if they do not accept subsidized enrollees, among other problems.

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Filed under: * Culture-WatchHealth & Medicine--The 2009 American Health Care Reform DebateLife Ethics* Economics, PoliticsPolitics in GeneralSenate

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