{"id":16214,"date":"2025-12-03T05:20:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T05:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/thune-says-abortion-language-a-sticking-point-in-health-care-talks-2\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T05:20:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T05:20:58","slug":"thune-says-abortion-language-a-sticking-point-in-health-care-talks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/thune-says-abortion-language-a-sticking-point-in-health-care-talks-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Thune says abortion language a sticking point in health care talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Tuesday that while bipartisan discussions are ongoing around the fate of soon-to-expire Affordable Care Act subsidies, abortion restrictions are a major sticking point. &ldquo;There are conversations that continue, but as you know the Hyde issue is a difficult and challenging one on both sides,&rdquo; Thune told reporters&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/12\/02\/congress\/thune-abortion-language-health-care-00672635\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Tuesday that while bipartisan discussions are ongoing around the fate of soon-to-expire Affordable Care Act subsidies, abortion restrictions are a major sticking point. &ldquo;There are conversations that continue, but as you know the Hyde issue is a difficult and challenging one on both sides,&rdquo; Thune told reporters&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}