Biden's Reconciliation Bill Would Fund Elective Abortions

West Virginia Democratic senator Joe Manchin has called taxpayer funding of abortion a "red line" issue in any reconciliation bill. Two pro-life Republican senators, Steve Daines of Montana and James Lankford of Oklahoma, released a memo highlighting multiple provisions in the House Democrats' $1.75 trillion bill released last week that would fund abortion. In the new 1,684-page reconciliation bill that Democrats released, one section of the bill has been changed in a way that at least appears to attempt to exclude elective-abortion coverage — but actually fails to do so. Read more...


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