Could Health Care Reform Bill Fund Abortions?
President Barack Obama is taking his health care pitch to Montana on Friday to discuss the controversial issue of abortion. The White House wants to calm the American people’s concerns and to try to answer specific questions that have been asked at heated town hall meetings across the country. Several constituents have asked if the new health care plan will cover abortion services. The original bills in both the House and Senate were silent on the issue of abortion. But that silence has not kept voters from questioning their representatives. “I did not want to pay on a health care plan that includes the right for a woman to kill her unborn baby,” a woman told Sen. Arlen Spector, D-Pa., in Lebanon, Pa., earlier in the week. “Is it true that this plan is in the health care bill?” Section 1714 of the House bill does address the issue concerning family planning for women on Medicaid. It would allow states to counsel or provide for abortions with state money. But could federal money be used
