The Senate Finance Committee recentely defeated the amendments proposed by Republican Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah. The amendments proposed that the current ban on federal funding for abortion would continue except for rape victims and dangered mothers. It also proposed that the government could not pressure any hospital or doctor to go against there beliefs and perform an abortion. Democratic Senator Kent Conrad from North Dakota and Republican Senator Olympia Snowe from Maine were the two people to vote against these amendments. They argued that it would lead to new restriction rights and that it discriminated against woman's rights.
Although I do believe that we need to accomplish something about abortion, I do not think these amendments are heading us into the right direction. I'm glad to hear that Senator Orrin Hatch is continuing to propose differnts ammendments and that he is not giving up this issue yet.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/30/health.care.senate/index.html?eref=rss_politics
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