GOP-led House is moving to restrict funding of abortions

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http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/02/06/2053774/gop-led-house-is-moving-to-restrict.html

Posted on Sunday, 02.06.11

By WILLIAM DOUGLAS
McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON -- WASHINGTON-Two House subcommittees hold hearings this week on separate bills that would expand restrictions on federal funding of abortions.

One would eliminate tax breaks for abortions. The other would restrict use of federal funds for abortions under the new health-care law. While both may pass the Republican-controlled House, their prospects of passing a Democratic-held Senate or escaping President Barack Obama's veto pen are slim to none.

"They can't expect this legislation to go beyond the House or Representatives," said Steve Smith, a political science professor at Washington University in St. Louis. "It allows the House Republicans to do something symbolically important for their coalition base."

Still, the bills have alarmed abortion-rights advocates, who say they are attempts to attack legalized abortion - federally funded or not - through the tax code and measures to deny women access to the procedure.

[PDJane]

1. Most people support some form of abortion access.

On the other hand, it won't increase jobs, so where is that legislation???

[Guilded Lilly]

2. I don't care if the Senate will most surely block them...

it is insulting to the core that these repulsive Representatives even go there. Regarding this retro, female-disrespecting agenda...they disgust me. Total waste of time and a giant backward leap. So much for taking the country forward.
Wretches.

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3. Who gives a FF? Did we not think this would happen?

60+ in the Senate

Presidential Veto


FFS

[Hello_Kitty]

4. Unless they hold something hostage for it. eom

[uppityperson]

5. Some of us give a FF because Obama won't always be president

and even if he'd veto it, once they get a win (to that point) under their belt, they will go for more.