Health Care Bill : It is now becoming clear that Barack Obama is ready to put everything on the table in order to be the president who pass health care reform. Everything, that is, except a ban on federal funding for abortion.
Last September, President Bush promised that “no federal dollars will be used to fund abortions, and the Federal laws of conscience remain in place.” However, the legislation is likely to move forward in Congress would expand one of the greatest abortion since the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.
The White House knows how to turn Mr. Obama in the September commitment to legislative action. I met with senior officials in the White House and said to them, only adding that the so-called Hyde amendment health care reform bills that would fulfill the promise of the President to protect Americans from supporting abortion.
Hyde amendment back to the 1970s, when congressional leaders discovered that Medicaid had to pay approximately 300,000 abortions annually. These were not the desired outcome of the medical aid program, which was established in 1965 with strong bipartisan support. Even in 1976, Republican Rep. Henry Hyde introduced an amendment to the Health and Human Services appropriations bill prohibiting taxpayer funds from paying for abortions.
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