An agreement was reached between some members of Congress and the Obama White House to issue an executive order regarding the ban on federal funding for abortion in the health-care legislation. Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, responded, "It is deeply disappointing that Bart Stupak and other anti-choice politicians would demand the restatement of the Hyde amendment, a discriminatory law that blocks low-income women from receiving full reproductive-health care."
A recently completed study conducted for NARAL Pro-Choice America by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research found that, despite some recent surveys suggesting a retrenchment on support for a woman's right to choose, the nation remains majority pro-choice.
NARAL Pro-Choice America PAC endorsed candidates in top U.S. House and Senate contests: Rep. Rick Boucher (VA-9), State Sen. Ted Deutch (FL-19), Rep. Patrick Murphy (PA-8), State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias (IL), and Sen. Russ Feingold (WI).
Find out how your members of Congress voted on choice-related issues, like the Stupak-Pitts and Nelson-Hatch amendments to health-care reform, in 2009.
