it just occurred to me that the republicans now have the unique opportunity to effectively make abortion unavailable to a substantial slice of the population (though the exact size of that slice is hard to say). all they'd have to do is to vote en masse in the senate for the house bill as-is.
they're never do it, of course. which means that there still is a chance of getting the stupak amendment out of the final bill in conference. though, at this point, i'm not very optimistic.
