Democrats link insurance bill to more abortions
By Amy Fagan
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
May 11, 2006

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday said the Republican health bill before the chamber would eliminate state health care guarantees, thereby jeopardizing women's access to contraception and perhaps resulting in more abortions.

"If Bush Republicans have their way, millions of women will have to make a choice between going without effective prescription contraception and struggling to pay for it out-of-pocket, something many will be unable to do," said Mr. Reid, Nevada Democrat.

Linking the bill to the abortion issue, a key part of the Republican platform, Mrs. Clinton, New York Democrat, said that "in order to decrease the number of unintended pregnancies and to decrease the number of abortions, we must make contraception more accessible and more affordable." The bill, she and Mr. Reid argued, would do the opposite. the rest