Time to abort this bill

By a 251-172 margin, the US House of Representatives has passed the Respect Life Act, which would remove the possibility of abortion funding from healthcare legislation approved last year and would also apply conscience-protection provisions to the legislation. The measure faces a presidential veto in the unlikely event that it should pass in the Senate, and rightly so because the proposed legislation is designed to crap on women’s reproductive freedom and access to health care, and unnecessarily restrict the private insurance choices that women and their families have today. This anti-choice legislation is just rubbish but at least 251 (only 57.7% of the House) isn't a big enough margin to override a presidential veto should it come to that.