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Abortion emerges as obstacle in health care debate

World Dec. 08, 2009 - 06:28AM JST ( 10 )

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yabitsDec. 08, 2009 - 08:46AM JST

By a vote of 43-56, the Senate rejected a Republican amendment that would have prevented the government from implementing the bill by using savings from Medicare. The measure needed 60 votes to pass.

This is great news. Republicans are completely out of step with the American people.
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lostrune2Dec. 08, 2009 - 09:15AM JST

Government intervention into the private insurance companies.
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sharky1Dec. 08, 2009 - 12:14PM JST

Socialize all medical care and do away with insurance and medical institutional profiteering!!!
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adaydreamDec. 08, 2009 - 01:50PM JST

It'll be worked out. I'm not worried. We'll have a health care bill. < :-)
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skipthesongDec. 08, 2009 - 05:01PM JST

Government intervention into the private insurance companies." Its actually gonna help them before it hurts them! I wish I had a business where the gov forced people to buy what I'm selling! Oh, the public option is going to be carried by a few of them too... so NO FREE CIGAR when the kid pops out!
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NolivingDec. 09, 2009 - 03:50AM JST

This is great news. Republicans are completely out of step with the American people.

Not exactly, there is a very large or a significant amount of Americans, even realistically a majority, who agree with what the republican party is trying to do on this issue when it comes to gov. funded or paid/assisted abortions.
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NolivingDec. 09, 2009 - 07:59AM JST

Another thing to point out yabits is that the bill was cosponsored by a Democrat named Ben Nelson.
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yabitsDec. 09, 2009 - 08:08AM JST

Not exactly, there is a very large or a significant amount of Americans, even realistically a majority,

The equivocal way in which you put that indicates clearly that your views only must up a minority. Every woman is free to choose if she wants to carry a pregnancy to term within the first trimester.
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NolivingDec. 09, 2009 - 11:37PM JST

No, the reason why I say that is because I don't remember exactly off the top of my head the statistic but I remember them being very close if not over 50%, so if it is a minority it very much is a very large minority. Plus you have to keep in mind that there democrats who agree with this bill as well. So it is not really wise to just blame the republicans considering a democrat was one of the cosponsor on the bill.

You also don't get it, it is not about whether or not a woman can have an abortion, it is about whether or not federal money is going to be used to pay or to help pay for an abortion. This bill and its amendments doesn't make abortions illegal, they just want the person themselves to pay for the abortion, they don't want federal money to help pay for it.