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...Planned Parenthood said the effort -- which attempted to strengthen the segregation of funds and ensure that no federal dollars could ever be designated to fund elective abortions in the exchange (which would include the public option) - could "tip the balance away from women's access to reproductive health care." And the Catholic bishops conference issued a memo calling the amendment "not a meaningful compromise...
...last-minute deal that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made to allow a vote on Stupak's controversial measure, claim the provision will greatly limit the availability of abortions, especially for low-income women. They have dubbed it "the coat-hanger amendment." (See the top 10 key players in health care reform...
...Before the Nov. 7 House vote on health reform, the advocacy organization Health Care for America NOW! (HCAN) had lobbied vulnerable Democratic House members by promising to back them with ads if they supported health reform. In the wake of the vote, the group amended that pledge, saying it would not apply to those who helped pass health reform if they also voted for the Stupak amendment. NARAL Pro-Choice America president Nancy Keenan is publicly mulling going one step further and supporting primary challenges against Stupak-voting Democrats. "Nothing's off the table," she told Jill Lawrence at PoliticsDaily...
...After the House vote, President Obama, who had carefully kept his distance from the health care horse-trading, told ABC News that the Stupak language had to be altered. "There needs to be some more work before we get to the point where we're not changing the status quo," he said. But at this point whether a workable compromise can be accomplished is unclear. (See what health care reform really means...
...well as the influential U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), continued to maintain that funding problems still existed because federal subsidies to help people buy health insurance on a government-managed exchange could end up going to private insurance plans that covered abortions. (Read "How Abortion Could Imperil Health Care Reform...