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.The Los Angeles Times on Monday examined how an abortion-related amendment, expected to be introduced by Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), might derail federal bankruptcy reform legislation again this session. Schumer has said he will introduce an amendment towards the legislation that would limit the ability of antiabortion protesters to declare bankruptcy in order to avoid court-imposed fines. Schumer introduced similar amendments to the Senate version of the legislation in 2002 and 2003 (Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 2/28). However, the House-passed version of the bill lacked the provision both years. Although House and Senate negotiators in 2002 agreed on compromise language that narrowed the abortion-related provision to pertain only to cases of intentional violence and apply much more generally beyond abortion clinics, the House removed the abortion-related language altogether before passing the measure, and then-Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) refused to bring it to a vote within the Senate, effectively killing the measure (Kaiser Every day Reproductive Wellness Report, 1/29/04). Overhauling the bankruptcy code is a “top item” on the Senate’s agenda, but Republicans have stated Schumer’s abortion-related amendment is a “poison pill” for the legislation, which otherwise would “pass easily,” according to the Times (Los Angeles Times, 2/28).
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