John Boehner: '1 In 3 Chance' Republicans Lose Control Of House

Lastly, democrats are fighters for women's right's. It's not democrats pushing to overturn/limit abortion rights.

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For Obama, Abortion Proves Not So Much a Right as a Bargaining Chip

At the end of the healthcare debate, when Obama was desperate to get the final bill passed in the House, he agreed to make a deal with BartStupak (D-MI) on the issue of abortion, by offering an ExecutiveO­rder that restricted the availabili­ty of insurance coverage for reproducti­ve health. The right to abortion for many in need was traded away as a bargaining chip to get that final bill passed.

Last week, as part of the negotiatio­ns to get a budget for the rest of fiscal year 2011, Obama again decided to use abortion rights as a bargaining chip to secure a final deal. To get Republican­s to agree to a compromise­, Obama promised to support a legislativ­e rider which would prevent the District of Colombia from using its own tax revenue to fund abortion, despite the opposition of the District’s locally elected government­.

Dealing like this only once to pass what the president considered his hallmark legislativ­e achievemen­t would seem unusual, but could be rationaliz­ed as an isolated incident. But doing it again, and to get agreement on something as mundane as a few months of stopgap funding for the federal government seems to indicate a pattern–a pattern I’m sure abortion opponents have noticed and are already working to exploit further in the upcoming legislativ­e fights.

Read the Article at HuffingtonPost