Shuler Co-Sponsors Ban on ObamaCare-Funded Abortions
Second bill would codify Hyde Amendment in federal law
RALEIGH (By David N. Bass, Carolina Journal Online) — A day after voting against a Republican-led initiative to overturn President Obama’s health care reform law, Democratic U.S. Rep. Heath Shuler of North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District has co-sponsored a bill to prevent the reforms from funding abortions.
The measure would resurrect the language of the Stupak-Pitts amendment, a compromise proposed by a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers in 2009 that would have banned the health care reforms from funding elective abortions.
The abortion-ban amendment was included in the initial U.S. House version, but the Senate later stripped it from the legislation and passed a final compromise that didn’t include the abortion limits. Obama signed an executive order ostensibly barring the reforms from funding abortion, but pro-life groups say it didn’t go far enough.
RALEIGH (By David N. Bass, Carolina Journal Online) — A day after voting against a Republican-led initiative to overturn President Obama’s health care reform law, Democratic U.S. Rep. Heath Shuler of North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District has co-sponsored a bill to prevent the reforms from funding abortions.
The measure would resurrect the language of the Stupak-Pitts amendment, a compromise proposed by a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers in 2009 that would have banned the health care reforms from funding elective abortions.
The abortion-ban amendment was included in the initial U.S. House version, but the Senate later stripped it from the legislation and passed a final compromise that didn’t include the abortion limits. Obama signed an executive order ostensibly barring the reforms from funding abortion, but pro-life groups say it didn’t go far enough.
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