Obama weighs in on abortion -- carefully
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009; 8:40 AM
By Ben Pershing Liberals spent a good portion of the health-care debate complaining that President Obama was insufficiently committed to including the public option in a reform bill, accusing him of sacrificing a cause that was important to them for the sake of political expediency. It sounds as though Obama is trying -- cautiously -- to avoid the same charge on abortion. In an interview with ABC News Monday, Obama weighed in on the controversy that has divided Democrats. "I laid out a very simple principle, which is this is a health care bill, not an abortion bill," Obama said. "And we're not looking to change what is the principle that has been in place for a very long time, which is federal dollars are not used to subsidize abortions. And I want to make sure that the provision that emerges meets that test -- that we are not in
