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Article: Abortion wars intensify over healthcare reform.(national)

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August 22, 2009
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Byline: Linda Feldmann Staff writer

Efforts to reform the healthcare system have added new spark to America's long-running abortion debate.

Anti-abortion groups are posting videos and running ads saying that health-reform legislation in Congress would mandate federal funding of abortions. Pro-abortion rights groups - and President Obama - say that's false. Two independent truth-squad groups, Factcheck.org and Politifact.org, also call the claim false, but Politifact acknowledges that the issue of federal subsidies for abortion is a more difficult question.

Thus is launched the latest round in the abortion wars - one that threatens to consume ...

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