Sophie Made Her Choice: Pro-Choice Dems Vote For The Bill

As  predicted yesterday in Sophie's Choice Coming For Pro-Choice Dems, these Democratic House members held their noses and voted for the bill even after the Stupak amendment was added (by a vote of 64 Dems and all 176 Republicans; see map).

Here's their going forward strategy, as reported by the NY Times before the vote:

“If enacted, this amendment will be the greatest restriction of a woman’s right to choose to pass in our careers,” said Representative Diana DeGette, Democrat of Colorado, one of the lawmakers who left Ms. Pelosi’s office mad.

But Ms. DeGette, Ms. DeLauro and other defenders of abortion rights said they would nonetheless vote in favor of the health care bill and fight for changes in the final version, to be negotiated with the Senate.