Like all great compromises, the abortion language in the just-
passed healthcare bill leaves everybody angry, and the pro- and
anti-choice sides have responded by issuing critical statements
and yelling ridiculous shit, respectively.  Of course, in the
fine tradition of compromise, everyone is mad. Most famously,
there's the guy (as of this writing, still unidentified) who
called Bart Stupak a "baby-killer" when he decided to accept the
slightly-less-restrictive restrictions on abortion funding
imposed by Obama's executive order. Emily Bazelon of Slate has a
helpful breakdown of the order itself, which requires that
insurance companies separate federal funds from funds used to
pay for abortions, but, unlike Stupak's original amendment,
doesn't bar companies that take federal money from covering
abortion at all. As Bazelon points out, this is basically
identical to the already-in-place Hyde Amendment — she reminds
us, "Health care reform was never about loosening the
restrictions on federal funding for abortion