Nicholas Haro
One hundred and eighty-one members of the House of Representatives signed a letter promising to vote against any appropriations bill that does not include a prohibition of the use of federal funds for abortion.

‘Abortion is not health care unless one construes the precious life of an unborn child to be analogous to a tumor to be excised or a disease to be vanquished — pregnancy is not a disease,’ said U.S. Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J.