In the November 10 San Francisco Chronicle, Carolyn Lochhead reports on Rep. Bart Stupak’s (D-MI) amendment preventing taxpayer funding for abortions:

The amendment by Bart Stupak, D-Mich., passed 240 to 194, with backing from 64 Democrats, including Dennis Cardoza and Jim Costa from the Central Valley, and most Republicans. It expands an existing ban, known as the Hyde Amendment, on public funding for abortion.
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Days of tense negotiations in Pelosi’s office over an alternative by Rep. Lois Capps, D-Santa Barbara, and Brad Ellsworth, D-Ind., that would have codified existing law broke down in bitterness and recriminations.

Nowhere does Lochhead justify the claim that … Continue Reading