Associated Press: Abortion compromise doesn’t satisfy critics
By Erica Werner
“A last-minute compromise that swung a half-dozen anti-abortion Democrats behind President Barack Obama’s health care bill – virtually ensuring its passage – failed to placate outside activists on either side of the issue, and drew derision from Republicans.
Nancy Northup, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights, said it was ‘unacceptable that a pro-choice president has put his imprimatur on a highly restrictive and unjust anti-choice measure.’
‘It is tragic that, under a pro-choice administration and a Democratic majority in Congress, harmful anti-choice policy will be the price American women will pay for health care reform,’ Northup said in comments echoed by other abortion-rights groups.”
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