Anti-abortion push begins in Congress

[EnfantTerrible]

Negotiators Add Abortion Clause to Spending Bill
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG and CARL HULSE

Published: November 20, 2004

WASHINGTON, Saturday, Nov. 20 - House and Senate negotiators have tucked a potentially far-reaching anti-abortion provision into a $388 billion must-pass spending bill, complicating plans for Congress to wrap up its business and adjourn for the year.

The provision may be an early indication of the growing political muscle of social conservatives who provided crucial support for Republican candidates, including President Bush, in the election.

House officials said Saturday morning that the final details of the spending measure were worked out before midnight and that the bill was filed for the House vote on Saturday.

The abortion language would bar federal, state and local agencies from withholding taxpayer money from health care providers that refuse to provide or pay for abortions or refuse to offer abortion counseling or referrals. Current federal law, aimed at protecting Roman Catholic doctors, provides such "conscience protection'' to doctors who do not want to undergo abortion training. The new language would expand that protection to all health care providers, including hospitals, doctors, clinics and insurers.


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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/20/politics/20spend.html?th

[liberal N proud]

1. A womans choice in the future

Metal or wood

Next they will claim that anyone who does not have sex for procreation will be guilty of murder. Those sperm can swim and that must mean they are life.

[katmondoo]

2. What does this make women? Commercial after commercial

push drugs to enhance sex for men. Are Women now to be nothing more than sex slaves. No contraception. Nothing to protect women, nothing.
The future will be back to the 50's, Because of the possibility of a pregnancy jobs will be harder to get, credit will be harder to get, children will be taken away if the woman cannot support them and take care of them at the same time. A pox on all these abhorant creatures who call themselves men who are pushing these medieval laws against women. I hate them all.

[cali]

3. Me too.

I loathe these hypocritical thugs. I keep thinking about Margaret Atwood's The Handmaiden's Tale.