WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Democrats, saying they are seeking common ground in the nation's divisive abortion debate, offered a pregnancy prevention measure in the Senate Thursday night but it was defeated.
The Senate voted 53-47 on mostly party lines on the measure offered by New York Democrat Hillary Clinton and the Minority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat.
The measure, offered as an amendment in the Senate budget debate, included more funding for family planning, teen pregnancy programs and education about emergency contraception. It also would have expanded health insurance coverage of prescription birth control.
Abortion advocacy groups such as NARAL Pro-Choice America and Planned Parenthood backed the measure, and called on senators who oppose abortion to support it to reduce the number of abortions.
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