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"Abortion-rights supporters are vowing to strip" abortion restrictions out of the House health care bill "as the focus turns to the Senate and the conference committee that would resolve differences between the two bills," the Washington Post reports.

I am a pro-choice liberal Democrat. I believe the Hyde Amendment, passed in 1977, which forbids the expenditure of federal tax dollars to fund abortions, directly or indirectly, is unfair and wrong.

President Obama got deeply involved in lobbying House Democrats in person to pass the health care bill this weekend, but the close vote Saturday night may make it more difficult for the president to convince Senate lawmakers to approve their version of insurance reform.

If liberals are so disturbed by Congress' dictating whether abortion is a legitimate health care issue or not, it only makes sense that they should be equally troubled by government management of other health care decisions.

Main Category: Abortion Also Included In: Health Insurance / Medical Insurance ; Women's Health / Gynecology Article Date: 11 Nov 2009 - 5:00 PST Two editorials and an opinion piece on Tuesday discussed an antiabortion amendment by Reps.

Reps. Doris Matsui and Dan Lungren are polar opposites on Capitol Hill, but they agree on one point: House approval of a trillion-dollar health care overhaul marked a victory for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco.

HEALTH CARE Stomping On Women's Rights On Saturday, one Republican joined 219 Democrats in the House of Representatives to pass sweeping health care reform legislation, a $1 trillion bill that the Congressional Budget Office says would not add to the budget deficit and would expand health insurance to 36 million Americans.

Just days after the country had buried Ted Kennedy, Cardinal Sean Oa Malley took to his blog to defend himself from critics attacking him for presiding over the funeral of a pro-choice senator.

GREELEY, Colo. - Colorado Democratic Rep. Betsy Markey, along with 38 other politically-vulnerable House Democrats, bucked the Democratic caucus and voted against the Affordable Health Care for America Act, which narrowly passed the U.S. House of Representatives Saturday night on a 220-215 vote.

Main Category: Abortion Also Included In: Health Insurance / Medical Insurance ; Medicare / Medicaid / SCHIP Article Date: 10 Nov 2009 - 2:00 PST The House on Saturday evening voted 220-215 to pass its health care reform bill after the chamber approved an amendment that would prohibit public and private plans in new health insurance exchanges from ...

This story is by Alec MacGillis . President Obama and Senate Democrats sought on Sunday to generate momentum from the House's passage of health-care legislation, even as a new hurdle emerged: profound dismay among abortion-rights supporters over antiabortion provisions inserted into the House bill.

President Obama in an ABC News interview on Monday indicated that he is uncomfortable with abortion restrictions voted into the House health care reform bill and that he is encouraging Congress to revise them, the New York Times reports.

In a nutshell, we may get health care reform, but we may in the process effectively lose access to abortion.

Nearly all of Colorado's congressional delegation is split along party lines as the House vote on a sweeping health care bill approaches.

Democrats have been showing a fresh determination to make Republicans' near-unanimous opposition to a national health care overhaul - and its implications for women - the GOP's Achilles heel during next year's midterm elections.

U.S. Reps. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., and Joseph Pitts, R-Pa. American women will pay the price for the Democratic dithering that allowed Saturday's passage of the Stupak-Pitts amendment, a worm virus inserted into the House healthcare reform bill with surgical precision.

Democrats are hardening their stances on both sides of the abortion issue in a battle that may threaten plans to overhaul the U.S. health-care system.

The health care overhaul passed by the House of Representatives over the weekend was almost scuttled by one issue: abortion.

Joe Sullivan raped an elderly woman when he was 13-years-old and was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

President Barack Obama and Senate Democrats sought on Sunday to generate momentum from the House's passage of health-care legislation, even as a new hurdle emerged: profound dismay among abortion-rights supporters over anti-abortion provisions inserted into the House bill.