Posted by
Billy on Friday, December 04, 2009 8:39:41 PM
A bipartisan effort is underway in the Senate to ensure that the government
health insurance programs created by the healthcare bill would not be permitted
to cover abortions. (Pro-life group faces Senate in uphill
healthcare battle )
Pro-life groups have been warning that the healthcare bill
proposed by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and backed by President Obama
would put the federal government in the business of subsidizing abortions in an
unprecedented way.
Democratic Senator Ben Nelson (NE) and Republican
Orrin Hatch (UT) plan to advance an amendment that would prohibit the use of
taxpayer funds to subsidize abortions under the so-called "public option." The
Hatch-Nelson amendment, which is nearly identical to the Stupak language
approved in the House, will likely be voted on next week.
Douglas Johnson, legislative director for National Right to Life, says the pro-life amendment faces an
uphill battle in the Senate.
( I hope the pro life amendment passes but as I posted earlier today Ben Nelson could have voted against the health care plan a few weeks ago. If he and the other pro life Democrats had voted against the health care bill we would not have to worry today about our taxes being used to pay for abortions.)