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Sep 30th, 2009 by Robert C. Baker
The AP is reporting that Senator Orin Hatch’s (R-Utah) efforts to strengthen language to disallow abortion coverage and to protect the consciences of health care workers regarding abortion were rebuffed by the Senate Finance Committee today.
Separately, the Senate could be voting on the legislation as early as mid-October.
The Reverend Robert C. Baker, B.B.A, M.Div., is an ordained pastor in The Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod, and serves the Church as an editor at the denomination's publishing house. He is currently pursuing an M.S. degree in Health Care Ethics at Creighton University. He is the author of What Happened To Merry Christmas? and How Do You Start a Fire with Water? and has authored or edited numerous Bible studies and books.