Senate Democratic Women Target Anti-Abortion Provision
Nov. 10, 2009, 4:15 p.m.
By Jennifer Bendery
Roll Call Staff 
SenateDemocratic women met Tuesday to plot a strategy for ensuring that Rep.Bart Stupak’s (D-Minn.) anti-abortion amendment doesn’t make it intothe Senate version of a health care reform bill, a task that at leastone Senator thinks the chamber already has the votes to do.Sen.Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) said she and her female Democraticcounterparts had a “good meeting” focused on how to advance health carereform legislation in the Senate that doesn’t include Stupak’sprovision, which imposes a permanent ban on abortion coverage for anyinsurance plan paid for in part with a federal subsidy.
“Wewill work together to ensure that the decades-long compromise of nofederal funds for abortion is what is in the Senate bill, and we willfight against any amendment that prevents women from using their ownprivate funds for their reproductive health care. We are optimisticthat compromise will prevail,” Boxer said in a statement.
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Tue, November 10, 2009
by Bill Sarpalius