SCHIP Veto Upheld

The House voted to uphold President Bush's veto of the SCHIP bill. The government will hopefully draft another bill to reathorize this program for the poor that protects the sanctity of life. Some of the stipulations in the bill that was denied were subsidies for contraception, sterilization, and an expansion of prenatal care that would have included abortion. Planned Parenthood had been a strong supporter of the blocked legislation. http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/10/20071018-4.html