Democrats’ chief deputy whip is 'confident' that Stupak amendment will be stripped

House Democratic leader Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), the Democrats’ chief deputy whip in the House, is already predicting the demise of the Stupak Amendment which placed restrictions on abortion funding in the House health care bill. Rep. Schultz and other pro-choice Democrats are planning on stripping the abortion restrictions in conference committee.



From The Hill:

A House Democratic leader said Monday she's “confident” controversial language on abortion will be stripped from a final healthcare bill.

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), the Democrats’ chief deputy whip in the House, said that she and other pro-abortion rights lawmakers would work to strip the amendment included in the House health bill that bars federal funding from subsidizing abortions.

“I am confident that when it comes back from the conference committee that that language won't be there,” Wasserman Schultz said during an appearance on MSNBC. “And I think we're all going to be working very hard, particularly the pro-choice members, to make sure that's the case.”

The amendment, offered by Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.), won the support of Republicans and dozens of centrist Democrats in the House, but revealed a deep divide in the Democratic caucus over abortion.