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Mollify that crowd and keep them in the "yes" column. >> on the abortion issue, lori, you write that one potential compromise could include staging a separate vote on stronger antiabortion provisions. how would that come about? >> well, bart stupak, the michigan democrat who was successful in november in changing the bill, has said he will not support it this time unless there is a separate vote on a bill he introduced yesterday that would strip out the senate abortion language and restore his language, which just flatly says if you get federal subsidies for insurance, you can't buy a policy f...

The language. planned parenthood research parm has predicted if the bill is put into law, there will be no changes to this bill will mean there be over 400,000 abortions in america as a result of this bill. you have a lot of pro-life democrats, one democrat announced he was going to vote for this bill even though it's going to increase abortions by 400,000 a year. you are going to see a lot of members that are follow obama to be is going into political oblivion, nancy pelosi can't be trusted on this one. this is a bill that will expand abortion coverage greater than we've seen in the history o...

Subsidize health care plans that pay for abortions. he had an amendment in the original house bill requiring anyone wanting abortion coverage to buy a policy not subsidized, even par shlly, by government funds. -- even partially by government funds. the senate version has no equivalent of a stupak amendment. the senate plan says, individuals with federally subsidized health care can pay for abortions out of their own pockets. supporters insist federal money would be kept separate from individual contributions paying for abortions. meanwhile, as the big house health care vote approaches, thousa...

That goes into a fund. so there's been a real herculean effort to siphon off those funds, such that federal taxpayer dollars do not pay for abortion. i take your point because you're saying, oh, if there's refundable tax credits and people get some money back and say they have a plan with abortion, that technically is federal funding paying for abortion. but i will just quote for you what your colleague, congressman kildee, also anti-abortion said. i guess that's the question. do you feel at all concerned that here you have a bill that works very, very hard to keep federal funds out of abortio...

Coverage. look, the policy has always been the federal government does not fund abortions, whether directly or -- nor do we fund insurance policies that pay for abortion. that's always been the law. now, going back to senator nelson, you have to remember senator hatch and senator casey tried to run the stupak amendment in the senate and it was tabled. it never came up. it was tabled. this is a backup position. so -- go ahead. >> are you basically saying this health care reform bill overturns the hyde amendment? >> yes. if you -- read the bill. >> all right. well, then, let's go the other way. ...