Overnight Healthcare: Abortion bill threatened by GOP rift

House Republicans are still grappling with how to move forward with their signature anti-abortion bill that is heavily opposed by some female lawmakers within the party. The bill to ban abortions after 20 weeks was carefully timed to reach a vote Thursday, the anniversary of Roe v. Wade and the same day as the March for Life. But a group of Republican women have lashed out against a piece of the bill that requires rape victims to report their crime to police if they wish to have an abortion after 20 weeks. Two women – Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-N.C.) and Rep. Jackie Walorski (R-Ind.) – removed themselves as cosponsors of the bill. More than two dozen lawmakers have reportedly said they will vote against the bill, threatening the GOP’s chances of sending the abortion law to President Obama’s desk. "My heart is open if we can find some way to make it better," Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.), the bill’s sponsor, told Talking Points Memo on Wednesday. "But at this point I don't know what that is. There seems to be no consensus as to how we could make it better." Read more here. Key voters oppose bill: Nearly 50 percent of voters in key districts oppose the Republican effort to ban abortion after 20 weeks, compared to 35 percent who support the bill, a new poll has found. Out of 1,700 people surveyed in three states, nearly 59 percent said they would be less likely to vote for lawmakers who supported the ban. Those figures indicate that support for the bill "could hurt these Representatives’ electoral chances in 2016," according to an analysis by the polling firm, Civic Analytics. The poll, which was commissioned by the abortion rights group, NARAL Pro-Choice America, included likely voters in districts with potentially vulnerable freshmen. Those districts are Arizona’s 2nd District, New York’s 21st and 24th Districts and Virginia’s 10th District. Read more here. 'Time is running out' for signups: The head of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is turning up the heat on people who have not yet signed up for ObamaCare with just one month before the deadline. "Time is running out," HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell said in a release Wednesday. Burwell’s plea for people to buy coverage comes hours after a State of the Union address that made no mention of the February 15 deadline -- a stark difference from last year when President Obama made a pitch for healthcare himself. This year’s enrollment period, which began in November, is shorter than last year’s, though it is already expected to exceed the administration’s target of 9.1 million by February. Read more here. Gaining ground: Lawmakers in favor of ObamaCare may be gaining the upper hand – at least in the states. Two-thirds of the 75 ObamaCare-related bills passed by state legislatures last year were aimed at moving the law forward, according to an analysis by the Center for Public Integrity. State lawmakers put forward about 200 bills attacking the federal healthcare law, though the vast majority didn’t pass. Twenty-five of those bills sought a full repeal of the law – an effort that remains at the top of the GOP’s national platform. Nationwide, state legislatures were flooded by more than 700 ObamaCare bills last year alone. Five states – including California, Illinois and New York, saw 50 or more bills filed. Read more here. Abortion coverage sparse on the exchanges: Roughly six in 10 women eligible for tax credits under ObamaCare cannot obtain health insurance coverage for abortion through the marketplaces, according to a new analysis. Researchers with the Kaiser Family Foundation found that the majority of women are barred from obtaining abortion insurance on the exchanges because they live in states that have banned that coverage within their system or do not have an insurer that offers it. Women in 31 states fall into one of these two categories, researchers wrote in a new analysis, "Abortion Coverage in Marketplace Plans, 2015." Read more here. Thursday’s schedule: The House will vote on a bill to ban abortions after 20 weeks. HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell will deliver remarks at 9 a.m. for the Families USA Conference. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and HealthCare.gov CEO Kevin Counihan will also deliver remarks. The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions committee will hold a hearing at 9:30 a.m. on changing the definition of full-time work under ObamaCare’s employer mandate. The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health will complete the second part of its hearing on Medicare’s Sustainable Growth Rate. 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