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Abortion Funding Restrictions Vital to Progress of Health Care Reform Bill, Rep. Stupak Says |
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D.C., Nov 19, 2009 (CNA).- Countering critics who claim
the Stupak Amendment will be altered or stripped from
Congress’ health care reform bill, Rep. Bart Stupak says
his pro-life amendment is vital to the legislation’s
progress and was added “fair and square.” "They're not
going to take it out. If they do, health care will not
move forward," Rep. Stupak told Fox News.In an interview Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” White House Senior Adviser David Axelrod said that President Obama does not think the health care bill should “change the status quo as it relates to the issue of abortion.” He predicted the president would intervene to change the legislation. Abortion advocates claim that the Stupak Amendment, which restricts most abortion funding, would change the status quo by placing new restrictions on abortion coverage in the private market and by barring federally subsidized plans in the proposed insurance exchange from funding abortions. PolitiFact, the St. Petersburg Times’ politics fact-checking website, says that some criticisms of the Stupak Amendment suggest its restrictions are “more severe and widespread than they actually are.” Rep. Stupak, the pro-life Michigan Democrat who pressed for the amendment, dismissed the claim of Axelrod that President Obama would try to change the language. "We won fair and square... That's why Mr. Axelrod's not a legislator. He doesn't really know what he's talking about," the Congressman told Fox News. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer on Tuesday said the Stupak Amendment’s language raised many House members’ “comfort level” with the bill. ::MORE |
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Health Care Abortion Debate Centers on Whether Stupak Amendment Is "Status Quo" |
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Washington D.C., Nov 17, 2009 (CNA).- White House Senior
Adviser David Axelrod has suggested that President Obama
will intervene to alter the Stupak Amendment in health
care legislation, claiming that it changes the “status
quo” on abortion. A leader of a pro-life Democratic
group told CNA in response that the Stupak Amendment is
itself the status quo. In an interview Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Axelrod said that President Obama does not think the health care bill should “change the status quo as it relates to the issue of abortion.” “This shouldn't be a debate about abortion. And he's going to work with Senate and the House to try and ensure that at the end of the day, the status quo is not changed,” he continued. Axelrod said that the issue “can and will” be worked out before the bill reaches his desk. Last Monday President Obama told ABC News that his “simple principle” is that the legislation is “a health care bill, not an abortion bill.” “And we're not looking to change what is the principle that has been in place for a very long time, which is federal dollars are not used to subsidize abortions. And I want to make sure that the provision that emerges meets that test -- that we are not in some way sneaking in funding for abortions, but on the other hand that we're not restricting women's insurance choices,” he continued. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told Fox News Sunday that Americans do not want any taxpayer money going toward abortion. “I think it would be very difficult to pass a bill that, in effect, either directly or indirectly provided tax money to pay for abortions,” he said, predicting there would be many amendments to the bill overall. ::MORE |
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