Negotiators Add Abortion Clause to Spending Bill
House and Senate negotiators have tucked an anti-abortion provision into a $388 billion must-pass spending bill, complicating plans for Congress to wrap up its business and adjourn for the year.
The abortion language would bar federal, state and local agencies from withholding taxpayer money from health care providers that refuse to provide or pay for abortions or refuse to offer abortion counseling or referrals. Current federal law, aimed at protecting Roman Catholic doctors, provides such “conscience protection” to doctors who do not want to undergo abortion training. The new language would expand that protection to all health care providers, including hospitals, doctors, clinics and insurers.
An issue of this magnitude should not be tucked into a spending bill.
Of course the National Right to Life Committee is very pleased with this as they’ve wanted something like this for a very long time – - Yet, what is going to happen to a woman’s right to choose if health care providers, doctors, hospitals, clinics and insurers can tell her they don’t have a right to choose anymore?
That’s just the way I took it, so forgive me Shannon.
every explanation i’ve read of this bill includes convoluted (to me) language. the one you just fave was the clearest i’ve seen. the New York Times could use an editor like you.
102- who is that to?
you
compliment?
It’s funny.. I agree with most of your posts on this.
i read the Times story & the Associated Press story and came away shaking my head thinking i was too simple to understand.
then along comes post 100 & it fell into place. thanks.
106
don’t say that in front of the others. guilt by association is a driving force in too many arguements in these itsy bitsy boxes.
I guess I am naive, so I didn’t know if you were being facetious or sincere.
my sense of humour is pretty dry. i don’t use the yellow faces, thinking i can get across my intent with words alone, but i know it doesn’t always work out.
that’s when more words are needed to clarify bad wording.
word.
Well I do agree 75. I have 4 children and I do teach them that abstinence is the best thing but I also know that peer pressure and society has an influence as well and tell them I that if they find themselves giving in, that they use protection.
that seems like a sensible approach to reality. too many people get hung up on the priciple that they ignore reality and realize that baby steps may be the best way to achieve the results they strive for.
they reject the good while fighting for the perfect.
I speak to them from own experiences.
no better way to teach.
i’m calling it a nite. good talking to you.
nite
You too shiloh, nite!
If these leftwing lunatics want abortion so bad then let it come out of their own pocket and not out of the pockets of all the american people.These liberal hypocrites talk about cruel and unusual punishment that the death penalty is for vile murderers.They have it easy compared to the cruel and unsual punishment of abortion.Nobody that faces the death penalty will be ripped apart limb from limb or burned alive with saline acid.We can’t talk about the cruelty of terrorists when the act of these abortions are far worse.These liberal scum are worse than terrorists.These babies have committed no crimes so that is shedding innocent blood.As much as I am against abortion I say let the liberals have at it.Maybe they will kill off their own kind and there won’t be any liberals left.Any liberal hypocrite out there that think they are religious needs to think about the very basic golden rule of treating others how you would like to be treated.Do any of you hypocrites wish you had been aborted?Maybe you had better think about it before you rush to have another one.What am I saying,liberals don’t have a brain to think with.Well at least pretend then.Oh yeah,also the bible says that you will reap what you sow.So if you kill then you will be killed.If we kill terrorists for their acts murder then all murderers should be killed.It doesn’t take a genius to figure that out.This goes for all liberals no matter what the party affiliation.