Congress has passed legislation to further limit American women’s access to abortion, though it is unlikely to get through the Senate or avoid being vetoed by President Obama.

The House on Thursday returned to an abortion issue that nearly sank President Barack Obama’s health care law last year with legislation that bars an insurance plan regulated under the new law from covering abortion if any of its customers receive federal subsidies.

Providers that offer abortion coverage would have to set up identical plans without abortion coverage to participate in the health insurance exchanges to be set up under the new law. […]

Opponents warn that millions of middle- and low-income women who receive partial subsidies to buy insurance would be denied abortion coverage. They said most providers were unlikely to set up two separate plans, one with abortion coverage.

House votes to stop abortion coverage under new health care law, The Washington Post, October 13th, 2011