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CBS NewsThe GOP-led House of Representatives is voting Thursday on a bill that Republicans say is necessary to keep taxpayer money from funding abortions but that Democrats call "savage" to women and possibly deadly.
The Protect Life Act would bar federal funding for abortions. It would also prohibit women from using tax subsidies acquired through President Obama's health care reforms to pay for health insurance that covers abortion, except in the cases of rape, incest or risk to the mother's health. Additionally, the bill would let health care providers refuse to perform an abortion if it violates their personal beliefs.
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi said in a press briefing today that the legislation is a "savage" attempt to withhold health care for women. She called the provision allowing doctors to refuse to perform an abortion particularly dangerous and could result in a woman dying.
"One aspect of it could undermine the responsibility of hospitals to deal with women who come in a crisis situation where their lives and health are at risk, and hospitals may not be required to serve them under this bill," she said. "When the Republicans vote for this bill today, they will be voting to say that women can die on the floor of health care providers... it's just appalling."
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It's not going to get passed the Senate, anyway, but these bastards keeo assaulting women's rights to a point where someone is going to break down.