The Real Pro-Life Stance — Health Care Reform and Abortion Funding

“Baby killer.” The accusation was made during what may have been the most remarkable exchange in the year-long congressional debates over health care reform, late in the evening of March 21, just after the House had passed the Senate's reform bill. House Republicans moved to recommit the bill to the Budget Committee for the sole purpose of adding the Stupak–Pitts antiabortion amendment, whose inclusion had been necessary for the passage of the House's original health care reform bill.1 Only 10 minutes were allotted for the debate over the motion to recommit, and most of this time was given to the . . .