How Senator Mikulski Slipped an Abortion Mandate into the Health Care Bill

How Senator Mikulski Slipped an Abortion Mandate into the Health Care Bill

At a committee hearing last week, Democratic Sen. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland provided a classic example of a morally bankrupt legislator seeking to insidiously force Americans to cooperate with and fund an objectively evil cause.

On Thursday, July 9, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee met to consider amendments to the legislation it is drafting to rearrange the entire U.S. health care system.

While chairing the hearing, Mikulski offered an obscurely worded, two-part amendment.

The first part required literally all health insurance companies in America to provide unspecified "preventive care and screenings" for "pregnant women and...