Blatantly.
“I support a woman’s right to choose, I support Roe v. Wade – I’m not for repealing that,” Chandler said.
“But I have been fairly consistent on the expenditure of public money for abortions, and I have generally been against that.”
The amendment’s proponents say the goal is to ensure that a longstanding ban on using federal dollars for elective abortions continues under the new health care legislation.
Abortion-rights advocates say it would make it harder for millions of women to have health insurance that covers abortion. They depict it as an assault on American women’s reproductive rights.
“There is a dispute about the effect of it, and I think that’s still being disputed by both sides,” Chandler said, adding that some say it goes further than the current ban on federally funded abortions.