Naral on Health Care: “I am very optimistic about (abortion) being part”
NARAL: Pro-Choice America president Nancy Keenan spoke to a pro-abortion blog about what they are doing on the health care debate. Here are some of her answers:
On forcing taxpayers to pay for abortions, overturning Hyde and also revealing just how closely they are working with the Democratic Leadership on the issue of abortion coverage:
“You know, obviously, in the long term we’d like to see the Hyde Amendment removed. But you have to look at the number of votes. There’s not enough pro-choice members of Congress to make that happen. Even though it’s a goal, when we lobby and count votes around here, we still don’t have the have the votes to repeal Hyde. Right now, we’re working on a little piece of that, and that’s the D.C. abortion ban that is also on the books. That is a possibility that we could actually remove that ban. Being pragmatic, strategic, making sure we actually have the votes. So even though overturning Hyde is a long term goal, we can have some wins on some other areas earlier.”
On the likeliness abortion would be mandated in the health care overhaul:
“(I)f, indeed, we can advance a panel or commission, then I am very optimistic about reproductive health care being part of this entire package. The other side are the ones that are preemptively trying to stop any coverage of reproductive care, including abortion care. We don’t take anything for granted, and we don’t want to lose any ground for the women of this country.”
H/T Doug Johnson NRTL
Comments:
No comments:
Post a Comment