Health Care and Abortion Coverage

Late last night the House approved the final vote on the changes to the health care reform bill. The measure now goes to President Obama's desk.

Anti-choice Rep. Bart Stupak, who has come under fire by advocates as well as opponents of the right to choose, responds to Kathleen Parker's column in the Washington Post. He writes, "The pro-life groups rallied behind me -- many without my knowledge or consent -- not necessarily because they shared my goals of ensuring protections for life and passing health-care reform but because they viewed me as their best chance to kill health-care legislation."

NPR's "Morning Edition" reports that after the health care vote, the partnership between anti-choice Republicans and anti-choice Democrats may have ended.

The Washington Post profiles Bob Bauer, President Obama's in-house counsel whose task was to broker a deal between with anti-choice Democrats to secure enough votes to pass health care reform.

In a Newsweek opinion piece, Sarah Kliff takes a look at the argument that Democrats are indebted to pro-choice advocates after the health care reform deal.

Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, writes on the Huffington Post that we need more pro-choice members of Congress in order to prevent attacks on the right to choose like the Nelson language in the health care reform package.

In a setback, the health care reform package includes a provision that restores $250 million over five years for states to sponsor abstinence-only sex "education" programs.