Obamacare: Senator Barbara Boxer Compares Abortion to Viagra

Senator Boxer, I’ll make you a proposition: federal government tax dollars should NOT be paying for Viagra or abortion.

Deal?

Of course, Seantor Boxer is running for re-election and has used the abortion and right to choose issue as a wedge in every campaign she has run – you know controlling men vs. women.

Explain your position again, Barbara, when you are running against Carly Fiorina next year.

By the way, the Nelson/Hatch amendment prohibiting the use of federal tax dollars for abortion services was tabled in the Democratic Party controlled Senate this afternoon. Obamacare legislation in the Senate will continue to carry allowances for this abortion expenditure.

Senators voted Tuesday afternoon to set aside a healthcare amendment that would have curbed federal support for abortion coverage.

Senators voted to table a measure from Sens. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) and Orrin Hatch (R-Pa.) that would have banned the government from offering insurance plans in a national healthcare exchange that cover abortion.

The amendment, which needed 60 votes to pass and was not expected to be adopted, was tabled in a 54-45 vote.

The provision, which mirrored restrictions in the House’s healthcare bill authored by Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Neb.), had been offered in part to win over Nelson, who’d previously warned he’d join a filibuster of the healthcare bill if it didn’t contain sufficient protections against federal support for abortion.

Democrats lost seven of their own members on the measure — Sens. Byron Dorgan (N.D.), Kent Conrad (N.D.), Evan Bayh (Ind.), Ben Nelson (Neb.), Ted Kaufmann (Del.), Robert Casey (Pa.), and Mark Pryor (Ark.) — while two Maine’s two Republicans, Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, supported the tabling.

The tabling represents a victory for abortion-rights supporters who had worried that the amendment’s restrictions on abortion funding would go beyond what had previously been established by the Hyde amendment.

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