Planned Parenthood: We can roll back the pro-life parts of ObamaCare

The senator’s language, reiterated in an executive order from President Barack Obama that sealed the bill’s final passage in the House, requires women and their employers to write out two monthly checks to insurers, one for abortion coverage and another for all other health services. In a complex accounting requirement that a group of George Washington University researchers Predict will eventually discourage insurance companies from providing any abortion coverage at all, the insurers would have to segregate abortion funding from all the new federal subsidy payments they will receive to bring approximately 17 million new customers into the private insurance system.

“We’re going to try and work with the administration in order to make this the least cumbersome as possible,” said Laurie Rubiner, vice president of public policy at Planned Parenthood. She declined to offer more details to avoid reveal the family planning organization’s strategy to opponents of abortion rights. “There are ways through the regulatory process that we could ease some of these administrative processes,” she said…

Stupak faces a primary challenge from Connie Saltonstall, a pro-choice county commissioner who has seen donations skyrocket in recent days. Feminist Majority Foundation released an angry press release Sunday night attacking Stupak as “sanctimonious” and “extreme” and vowing “no more free rides” on Election Day for Democrats who oppose abortion rights. But the group’s president, Eleanor Smeal, told The Daily Beast she still celebrated final passage of the health-care reform bill.

“If you turn down half a loaf, you get nothing,” Smeal said. “Given the realities of the vote count, I am glad that 15 million people will have access to Medicaid, most of whom will be women, and another 17 million will have access to these state insurance exchanges. I think to have nothing would have been horrible.”