Florida lawmaker confident abortion restrictions will be stripped from health care bill
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Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.)

Washington D.C., Nov 9, 2009 / 07:30 pm (CNA).- In a statement Monday, U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) asserted that the Stupak Amendment currently preventing federally funded abortions in the House health care bill will be removed.

“I am confident that when it comes back from the conference committee that that language won't be there,” Wasserman Schultz told MSNBC, adding, “I think we're all going to be working very hard, particularly the pro-choice members, to make sure that's the case.”

The language in the Stupak Amendment not only prevents abortion coverage in the public insurance option but also prohibits private plans from offering coverage for abortions if they accept individuals who are receiving government subsidies.

Without the Stupak amendment the House would not have been able to amass enough votes to pass the current health care bill, which passed by a margin of 220 votes in favor to 215 against.

The opportunity to remove the Stupak Amendment will come during the conference between the House and Senate bills, and pro-abortion Democrats are reportedly working hard to ensure its removal.

“It was extremely painful for me to feel compelled to vote for a bill that contained that kind of restriction on a woman's ability to make her own reproductive choices,” said Wasserman Shultz on Monday.

The Senate version of health care overhaul legislation must still be voted on. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has said that the Senate may not pass a health care bill by the end of his self-imposed Christmas deadline, though President Obama has pressed his concern that the health care reform be finished by the end of the year.

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Published by: daxis diaz
TAMARAC 11/10/2009 08:46 PM EST
Only when a women is FULLY informed is "a women able to make her own reproductive choice" debbie Shultz...as Serrin Foster said: 'abortion is NOT HEALTH CARE FOR WOMEN'.
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Published by: steve abril
TAMARAC 11/10/2009 08:35 PM EST
YOU ARE SOOO WRONG...THE WOMEN OF FLORIDA ARE NOT IGNORANT AND NEITHER ARE THE FLORIDA LAWMAKERS...
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Published by: bjcass
Mooresville,NC 11/10/2009 04:00 PM EST
We need to be extremely vigilant.The Stupak Amendment garnered enough "Blue Dog"/Pro Life Democrat votes to allow passage of the health care bill.The Pro Choice crowd can amend the bill in the Senate,in the conference committee [if the Senate passes a bill] or even after passage by the House /Senate.The basic health care bill is fundamentally NOT legislation that supports life as millions of seniors will learn when they are subjected to over $400 billion in Medicare cuts and "managed care".Health care represents 1/6 of our economy.It should not be rushed through and jammed down the throat of Americans.If the legislation was so great,Why did it pass the House with a 5 vote margin? Anything that huge that will effect all our lives deserves a broad base consensus which is not there.
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Published by: Joan L. Roccasalvo
Bronx 11/10/2009 02:26 PM EST
PS I will to add this to my comments: It is one thing to recognize the legal right to abortion. It is quite another matter for pro-lifers to pay for that right. We have no legal responsibility to pay for an abortion. I understand that Vice-president Biden agrees with this distinction.
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Published by: Joan L. Roccasalvo
Bronx 11/10/2009 02:24 PM EST
The pro-abortion lobby got to the President between Saturday night and today. Livid at the passage of the Stupak amendment, they have vowed to remove it from the final health bill. Barbara Boxer and Ms Wasserman-Schultz are leading the abortion lobby and will press President Obama to mount a full measure of activity to realize their goal. Incremental steps to restrict abortion have succeeded, and this has frightened and emboldened supporters of abortion. We need an influx of pro-life congress people, in the House and Senate, to begin balancing out the disparity that exists.
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