Bipartisan Amendment Preserves Federal Standard Disallowing Public Funding of Abortion

by Gary Kopycinski on December 7, 2009

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Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–December 7, 2009 – Today, Nebraska’s Senator Ben Nelson and a bipartisan group of senators filed an amendment to extend the more than 30-year federal standard disallowing public funding for abortion to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2009, the Senate health care bill.