Trying to persuade usually pro-life Democratic Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson to back Obamacare, Pennsylvania Democratic Senator Bob Casey offered a so-called compromise on abortion funding that Nelson initially rejected. But liberal evangelicals and Catholics who profess to be pro-life publicly endorsed the Casey compromise as a “way forward” and are urging “all other pro-life people of good will to give it the careful consideration it deserves.”
Nelson later accepted a somewhat different compromise allowing states to opt out of abortion coverage. Undoubtedly this religious coalition will heartily back this new deal as the price for advancing Obamacare, while more stalwart pro-lifers will point out that it still undermines the 33 year restriction against federal funding for abortion.
