Advocates Lobby Senate to Reject Ban on DC's Use of Own Funds to Pay for Abortions

The Washington Post – D.C. Wire blog: Activists lobby Senate to keep D.C. abortion ban off spending bill, by Ben Pershing:

Advocates are stepping up their Capitol Hill lobbying efforts to prevent a ban on city-funded abortions, as a Senate panel prepares to consider the spending bill that funds the D.C. budget for 2012.

The House-passed version of the measure, which also funds the Treasury Department and a host of other government agencies, includes a ban on having the District use its own taxpayer funds to pay for abortions for low-income women. That prohibition, supported by Republicans and anti-abortion groups, drew sharp complaints from House Democrats and the White House, which said it “undermines the principle of states’ rights and of D.C. home rule.”. . .