Senate Rejects Abortion Ban for ObamaCare

Posted by Mark Noonan in Life Issues, health care on December 8th, 2009 at 09:15pm with 3 responses.
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This will certainly make things interesting:

The Senate narrowly rejected an amendment that would have restricted abortion coverage in the pending health-care bill, leaving in question whether Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) has the 60 votes needed to move the bill toward final passage.

The measure, which failed 54-45, addressed the scope of restrictions on coverage of abortion services for people who receive subsidies to buy insurance. The outcome was expected, but could cost the support of Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.), who has threatened to filibuster the $848 billion bill unless abortion restrictions are tightened.

Pro-life or pro-choice, a majority of Americans has consistently opposed federal funds for elective abortion.

Question: Does this kill the bill? Can Reid get 60 votes for cloture without a ban on abortion funding? If he can swing it, are there 218 votes in the House to pass a health care bill without an explicit ban? That 54 voted against the ban shows that the pro-abortion fanatics are pressing hard for this – we’ll have to see how this comes out.

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3 Responses to “Senate Rejects Abortion Ban for ObamaCare”

  1. Amazona says:
    December 8, 2009 at 9:23 pm

    We already know that we can’t stop pathologically self-absorbed women from butchering their own babies, but at least we shouldn’t have to pay for the atrocities.

    I wonder how the Blue Dog/Lap Dog Democrats will spin this back home? Or any of them, for that matter.

  2. tfmo says:
    December 8, 2009 at 9:39 pm

    They’ll do what they always do, Amaz. Lie through their teeth, blame the Right, then get ACORN or something similar to cheat their way to victory.

  3. Amazona says:
    December 8, 2009 at 11:59 pm

    Yeah, they’ll find a way to back-door it. What they don’t get is that the American people are disgusted by abortion on demand, and torally repelled by the brutality of late-term abortion. They have told their representatives this, and been ignored.

    So a campaign poster might read: “Did Blank Blank vote to use my tax dollars to pay for abortions? FIRE HIM !!”