Prenatal attached to strick pro-life bill

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.omaha.com/article/20100323/NEWS01/703239923/0#prenatal-attached-to-pro-life-bill

Published Tuesday March 23, 2010

By Cindy Gonzalez
WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER

A group of Nebraska lawmakers said Monday that they plan to resurrect a bill to restore prenatal care to poor and illegal immigrant women by attaching it to a pro-life priority bill.

If successful, the focus of the debate could shift from one hot-button issue to another from illegal immigration to abortion.

State Sens. Brad Ashford, Heath Mello and Jeremy Nordquist, all of Omaha, talked about their strategy to revive prenatal funding after meeting Monday with officials at OneWorld Community Health Center in south Omaha.

The lawmakers requested the gathering to learn more directly how low-income women are dealing with the state's decision to end Medicaid funding for prenatal services for poor women, many of them undocumented.

Dr. Kristine McVea, chief medical officer of OneWorld clinics, reiterated to the senators that six expectant women have told her staff in the past few weeks that they would seek to abort their babies rather than enter the clinic's prenatal program. That compares to about four abortions McVea said she knew of in the past decade.

A doctor in Schuyler, Neb., also said last week that one patient had turned to abortion and that another was considering one.

FULL story at link.

[fl_dem]

1. using the poor and the oppressed

common practice of the GOP. Its a shame they feel no shame.

[elehhhhna]

2. The womb is nothing but a political football.