Interim post: health care still pro-abortion

Two bad pieces of news on the health care reform debate.

Pro-abortion forces had a rally yesterday, only a couple hundred people showed up, and they were greeted with this outrageous claim:

During the rally yesterday sponsored by the Planned Parenthood abortion business and other leading pro-abortion groups, Rev. Carlton Veazy told the small gathering of hardcore activists that abortion is a "God-given right." Veazy is the head of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice.

The rally was a time for abortion advocates to rally together to press for taxpayer funding of abortions and saw a small crowd of just a few hundred people -- compared to the 100,000 or more who attend the March for Life. (LifeNews)

Operatives of the St. Michael Society infiltrated the pro-abortion event and published a report.

Second, the flawed Mikulski Amendment passed on a near party-line vote today:

Senators approved an amendment to the government-run health care bill today that calls abortion "preventative care." They voted 61-39 in favor of the Mikulski amendment that could make it so every health care plan in the United States would have to cover abortion.

Sen. Barbara Mikulski, a pro-abortion Maryland Democrat, offered Amendment No. 2791 dealing with federally mandated coverage of "preventive care."

Though most of the discussion on the amendment centered on a mammogram coverage problem in the bill, it presents significant concerns for pro-life advocates.

The Mikulski amendment would essentially open the door to defining abortion as "preventative care" and could result in mandates to private insurance plans that they define abortion as such and provide coverage of it. (LifeNews)

I know efforts were made to fix the language of this amendment so that it excludes abortion as "preventative coverage", but to my knowledge, those were not introduced before it was voted upon and improved, so it remains open to the abuse of covering abortions under its phrasing.

More as it happens....