Pro-choice advocates have been "forced … into a corner" by legislative maneuvering and should fight to "regain momentum," a Guttmacher Institute official says in a rally-the-troops article.

"Antiabortion advocates have unveiled a radical agenda aimed at eliminating abortion coverage from any health insurance plan that in any way touches a public dollar, whether directly or even indirectly, under the tax code," said Susan A. Cohen, director of government affairs for the Guttmacher Institute.

This "goes far beyond the Hyde amendment," and advocates will need to fight harder to ensure that abortion is a covered health care service under the federal government's Medicaid program, in state health care "exchanges" and in private insurance policies, she said in an analysis in the fall 2010 issue of the Guttmacher Policy Review...