Monday, March 22, 2010

Anti-Abortion Language

There was no way that the new healthcare reform bill would have passed last night if it hadn't been for many anti-abortion Democrats switching their "no" votes to "yes" votes. The bill ended up passing with a narrow 219 to 212 vote. The main controversy about the language in the bill about abortion was whether or not taxpayers would be forced into paying for abortions. What made the anti-abortion Democrats change their votes was that President Obama said that he would issue an executive order that would make sure that the current limits on federal funding of abortion would remain the same.
Since the heathcare bill had already passed in the Senate, and the House merely changed a few parts in the bill, I feel that the Senate will, probably, accept these changes if they are appropriately explained. If not, the bill that the Senate had passed would indeed become the law.


http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/03/22/abortion.heath.care.vote/index.html

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