Abortion in the Health Care Bill

Just this past week I was doing my weekly assignment for my history class and I saw that there was an article in my history book talking about the different positions on abortion. When I read this passage, it reminded me of this article that I saw in the New York Times a few weeks ago, this article in the New York Times was talking about whether the health care plan should include abortions into it. This idea of adding abortion into the health care plan is very interesting to me because of all of the controversy that is seen in both aspects. Throughout history there has been a struggle with there being a health care plan being passed, and also the idea of whether abortion should be legal or not. Abortion has been a conflict throughout history since Roe v. Wade. In this case about abortion the Supreme Court stated that a woman can abort her pregnancy at any point up until the fetus is able to survive without the mother's help or artificially. The history with the health care plan goes all the way back to the early 1900’s when Theodore Roosevelt was in office he tried, also during the great depression Franklin D. Roosevelt asked for a reform to be passed along side of the social security legislation, then in the early 1990’s the Bill Clinton administration asked for a health care reform, but not until just recently the House of Representatives passed the health care reform. The thing that I find the most interesting about this article in the New York Times is that there is a chance of abortion either being or not being considered part of the Health care plan. The article that talks about this idea is found:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/27/health/policy/27abortion.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=health%20plan&st=cse
also the information about the healthcare reforms throughout history I found:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_health_care_reform_in_the_United_States