Fox 21 News: Franken on health care and Google Fiber

Posted in News Clips on March 10th, 2010

DULUTH – Minnesota’s junior senator doesn’t see a problem with abortion language in the health care bill.

Pro–life democrats like Bart Stupak and Jim Oberstar are concerned about federal money going to voluntary abortions. But, Senator Al Franken says the way the bill is written, that should not be a problem.

He tells FOX 21, “What the senate bill does, it actually requires a woman to write two separate checks if she is getting insurance for a, that does cover an abortion.”

Senator Franken has already recently released a video supporting Duluth’s ‘Google Fiber Initiative.’

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