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No, I'm arguing, as did the pro-life organizations who attacked the supposed pro-life Democrats who sold out the unborn, that the federal law should have prohibited plans from covering abortion, which the not yet finalized House bill had done in a specific vote on the Stupak Amendment before the Senate membership change. The second vote on adding the Amendment to the Senate bill was vote 166 and it failed.

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That would have been a good advancement. I would welcome private health insurance plans from covering abortion as federal insurance plans do. But it was a missed opportunity for a step forward, not a step back. Obamacare has saved over one million unborn lives.

You and I may disagree on strategy and methods. But it is the prerogative of the citizen. Bishops might outline strategy and methods, but have no authority to bind lay Catholics to their preferred strategies and methods.

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They generally didn't before Obama care, which has led to more destroyed unborn lives than there were before.

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No, prior to Obamacare that vast majority of private health plans included abortion. There was no significant change following the enactment of ACA and certainly nothing in ACA that mandated it.

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Where do you get your numbers from?

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