March 11, 2010 2:32PM # ObamaCare Will Include Taxpayer-Funded Abortions By [Michael F. Cannon](https://www.cato.org/people/michael-f-cannon) --- SHARE According to MSNBC, [Democratic leaders have given up on trying to appease pro-life House Democrats](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35814735/ns/politics-health_care_reform/): > House leaders have concluded they cannot change a divisive abortion provision in President Barack Obama’s health care bill and will try to pass the sweeping legislation without the support of ardent anti-abortion Democrats.A break on abortion would remove a major obstacle for Democratic leaders in the final throes of a yearlong effort to change health care in America. But it sets up a risky strategy of trying to round up enough Democrats to overcome, not appease, a small but possibly decisive group of Democratic lawmakers in the House… > > > Democratic Rep. Henry Waxman of California, chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee…predicted some of the anti-abortion lawmakers in the party will end up voting for the overhaul anyway. Pro-life Democrats will vote for taxpayer-funded abortions? Without even a fig leaf of a compromise? ##### Related Tags [General](https://www.cato.org/general), [Health Care](https://www.cato.org/health-care) [![Creative Commons License](/build/cato_2020/images/creative-commons.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).