Women’s health comes out a loser in the House [not mammograms, not paps, free abortions]
UW-Madison Professor Alta Charo was right -- women’s health would be sacrificed for overall health care reform. Charo, a faculty member of the university’s Law School and a senior adviser to the commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, predicted in an October speech to Planned Parenthood here that the right-to-life lobby might well get its way on abortion in the health care debate. Sure enough, in the landmark bill that the House passed earlier this month, lawmakers bent to the right-to-lifers and intense lobbying by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to provide stiff restrictions on covering abortions...
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