{"id":16580,"date":"2009-12-09T11:00:39","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T11:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/senate_rejects_abortion_amendment_to_healthcare_bill\/"},"modified":"2009-12-09T11:00:39","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T11:00:39","slug":"senate_rejects_abortion_amendment_to_healthcare_bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16580","title":{"rendered":"Senate rejects abortion amendment to healthcare bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate on Tuesday rejected an effort to tighten restrictions against using federal funds for abortion under Democrats&#8217; landmark healthcare legislation, handing a victory to abortion-rights advocates but setting up a potential conflict with the House.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate voted 54-45 to kill an amendment offered by Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) to make sure the bill does not undermine the long-standing ban on federal abortion funding.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nation-and-world\/la-na-health-senate9-2009dec09,0,7688557.story\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate on Tuesday rejected an effort to tighten restrictions against using federal funds for abortion under Democrats&#8217; landmark healthcare legislation, handing a victory to abortion-rights advocates but setting up a potential conflict with the House. The Senate voted 54-45<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16580\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,513,104,96,151,618],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-the-2009-american-health-care-reform-debate","category-health-medicine","category-life-ethics","category-politics-in-general","category-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}