Posted on 09/30/2009 3:16:18 PM PDT by NativeNewYorker
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- A proposal to broaden abortion restrictions under the overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system was voted down Wednesday in the Senate Finance Committee.
The committee, on a 13-10 vote, defeated an amendment offered by Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, that stated the current ban on federally funded abortions except in cases of rape, incest or danger to the mother's health would apply to all aspects of health insurance in the healthcare bill, CNN reported.
All but one Democrat on the committee -- Sen. Kent Conrad of North Dakota -- voted against the amendment. Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine was the lone GOP committee members who supported it.
Snowe and Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., said the amendment set a new limit on a woman's right to abortion by requiring women with private health insurance to purchase supplemental coverage for abortions.
Hatch said the health insurance system in the bill made it difficult to prevent federal money from paying for abortions, so he sought blanket provision to cover any possibility, CNN said.
As I see it, the only "rights" Democrats believe in are those allowing drugging/buggering underage girls, and then allowing them to have abortions.
They don't call it the 'Baby-Killing Fudge-Packing Socialist Party" for nothing.
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