Friday 23 January 2015

Abortion debate roils U.S. House on Roe v. Wade anniversary

Anti-abortion demonstrators pray in the hallway outside Senate Majority Leader McConnell's legislative office on Capitol Hill in Washington By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill permanently barring federal funding of abortions on Thursday after Republican leaders dropped harsher anti-abortion legislation due to opposition from some of the party's moderate lawmakers. Passage of the bill, and the setback for conservative House Republicans when the more restrictive abortion legislation was set aside, came on the 42nd anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing the procedure. The abortion fight highlighted fissures within the party that wants to use its new majority to undercut Democrats as the 2016 presidential race begins to heat up. President Barack Obama said in a statement released by the White House that the House-passed bill "would intrude on women's reproductive freedom and access to health care and unnecessarily restrict the private insurance choices that consumers have." The bill builds on a funding ban that was mostly in place already.




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