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On the hill, good morning, will they doom the bill? >> reporter: they very well could. and it all hinges on whether or not the differences between the house and senate versions of the legislation can actually be worked out specific to the abortion language. in the senate, there is no out right prohibition on taxpayer dollars, going to abortion related services. that is highly objectionable to the house version and some of the house and senate democrats who actually made sure the so-called bart stupak amendment would be included in the house bill that banned taxpayer dollars from going to abort...

Stupak standing firm against the language, that is in the bill, that is now before the house, look at this: >> bottom line is, there has to be no public funding for abortion and that has been the law 33 years and the president indicates he does not change current law. martha: another house democrat says the pro-life members should basically back off. >> i understand that they would like abortion to be illegal. but that is a health care bill, not an abortion bill, and we should not use a health care bill as a vehicle for the restrict -- to further restrict a woman's right to choose, there are 1...

Being here, the catholic church is outspoken on the issue and has a lot of power, frankly in influencing its members across the country on this issue and what do you think, right now, about the back and forth on the issue of abortion, on capitol hill? >> i think it is clear that congressman stupak's thinking reflects the thinking of the majority of americans. do not want the federal funding for abortion in the health care reform bill. as well as the fact that the majority believe we do need a reform of the health care system. so, we're very grateful to congressman stupak for standing his groun...

Call the number on your screen. martha: this is a heated one in an evening meeting democrats tell rahm emanuel to stop with the deadlines and a dozen democrats are ready to roadblock health care, bart stupak, a michigan democrat is set to oppose the current plan for insurance reforms unless there is a specific ban on abortion funding and he has got a posse of support behind him, and we have a brand new hour, on a busy, busy morning of "america's newsroom," hey, everybody i'm martha maccallum. bill: i'm bill hemmer, and seems like we say it all the time, health care is coming to a critical poin...

Development and conscious protections for health care providers and the second two seem to be contentious issues and especially the abortion provision. all we're really asking for, there, is it is not a question of whether or not abortion should remain illegal. i would hope that everyone thinks we should reduce abortions as much as possible, regardless of what you think the legal status of it should be. all we're asking is that the status quo remain in force with the health care reform, as congressman stupak referred to. this would be simply incorporating the provisions of the hyde amendment i...