Double Trouble Brewing for Anti-Abortion Democrats? [Healthcare Vote Leaves Them as Targets]
Just days after the historic health care bill became law, abortion activists on both sides of the political aisle are preparing the battleground for November’s mid-term election, which could see a revival of the hot-button issue.
Just days after the historic health care bill became law, abortion activists on both sides of the political aisle are preparing the battleground for November’s mid-term election, which could see a revival of the hot-button issue.
The health care legislation signed by President Obama Tuesday was widely denounced by both abortion rights and anti-abortion groups. Both sides charge that the law benefits the other side and infringes on Americans’ rights.
Obama’s executive order, which he signed Wednesday, reaffirmed that no federal funds will go toward abortion. But abortion groups on both sides agree on one point: that the order was merely for symbolic political purposes.
The uproar from all fronts has raised questions about the political future of anti-abortion Democrats who voted for the health care bill after Obama promised to issue the executive order.
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Abortion activists on both sides are raising funds to challenge these Democrats, many of whom are in particularly vulnerable districts.
The White House insists that the executive order maintains the status quo on abortion, and that’s not what the health care law was ever about. The order is intended to ensure that current law limiting federal funding for abortion is maintained and it will extend those restrictions to the newly created health insurance exchanges. Under the current law, federal funds cannot go toward abortion except in cases of rape, incest and when the life of the pregnant woman is at risk.
States would be responsible for checking whether insurers are complying.
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