Thank goodness, as mentioned at CNN, the women on the Senate Finance Committee saw this amendment for what it really was: "Both [Senator Olympia] Snowe [of Maine] and Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow of Michigan challenged the amendment as a new limit on a woman's right to abortion by requiring women with private health insurance to purchase supplemental coverage for abortions." Bonnie Erbe at on her blog at U.S. News & World Report called Hatch's amendment "whacky" and thinks that once the dust settles after this current debate, it should be time for Congress to re-evaluate the current state of abortion law altogether: When reform is completed, congressional Democrats should go after the Hyde Amendment, and some probably will. Full Article at BlogHer