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: Senate Finance Committee Votes Against Pair Of Anti-Abortion Amendments (RTTNews) - The Senate Finance Committee voted 13-10 Wednesday against an amendment from Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) to strengthen anti-abortion provisions in the health care reform bill that the committee is currently drafting. Senator Olympia Snowe (R-ME) joined Democrats in voting against the amendment, while Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND) sided with Republicans in voting for it. Hatch's amendment would have included language that would place a permanent ban on federal funding for abortions, except in the cases of rape, incest or to save the life of the mother. Under current law, the bans need to be renewed every year or federal funding for abortion is allowed for cases no longer banned. "This is a health care bill," Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) said of the decision to vote down the amendment. "This is not an abortion bill. And we are not changing current law." Meanwhile, Hatch expressed his disappointment in the vote, saying, "The American people do not want, and should not be expected, to foot the bill for abortions." "That being said, I will fight tooth and nail to make sure once this bill gets to the floor it is clear in the language that taxpayers' dollars will not be used to fund abortions through the new programs nor through subsidies created in the bill," he added. Additionally, in another 13-10 vote, the committee also rejected Hatch's amendment that would prohibit the federal government, state governments and local governments from forcing health providers, such as hospitals and physicians, to provide abortions. The amendment would have also prohibited governmental bodies from receiving federal dollars if they take action against any health care provider because the provider does not cover, provide or make references for abortions. "I am disappointed in the committee's vote against providing conscience protection for health plans that do not want to facilitate abortions," Hatch said after the vote. "I do not feel that any persons with deeply held religious or moral beliefs should be put in any situation where they would be forced to perform abortions." |
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