Pro-choice House leaders: Don’t let abortion-funding ban scuttle Medicare deal
Posted on AllSides March 24th, 2015
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Democratic leaders of the House’s pro-choice caucus said Tuesday they plan to support a bipartisan deal to overhaul Medicare payments, even though it includes a familiar ban on using federal funds for abortion.
The statement by Reps. Diana DeGette of Colorado and Louise Slaughter of New York is an attempt to salvage the Medicare deal struck by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Speaker John A. Boehner, even as Senate Democrats air grievances about the so-called Hyde language on abortion and other aspects of the
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