Kay Steiger looks at the new rules on abortion services in Washington:
On Thursday, President Barack Obama signed a bill that will allow the District of Columbia to once again use its own local tax dollars to pay for abortion services for low-income women. The 2010 omnibus appropriations bill lifted a restriction on the nation’s capital using local funds for abortion care that has been imposed by Congress every year since 1988. (The bill also lifted restrictions on funding potential medical marijuana and needle exchange programs.)
“This is really something to be celebrated from the point of view of women who live in D.C. who are low-income,” said Heather Boonstra, senior public policy associate at the Guttmacher Institute.
