Communications

The White House may try to paint its health care proposal as the Democrats’ consensus plan, but on the issue of abortion in particular, Bart Stupak begs to differ:

“Unfortunately, the President's proposal encompasses the Senate language allowing public funding of abortion. The Senate language is a significant

departure from current law and is unacceptable.”

Rep Stupak is not alone in his conviction that a health care overhaul plan should not include public funding for abortions. A December Quinnipiac University poll found that voters oppose using any public money in the health care overhaul to pay for abortions by a 72 – 23% margin.

The Democratic opposition to abortion funding in a health care overhaul plan may not end with Stupak either considering that sixty-four Democrats voted with 176 Republicans for the Stupak amendment in November, which would have prohibited coverage of abortions in a new government-run health care plan.