The planโ€™s provisions on abortion arenโ€™t popular. Thatโ€™s why he keeps denying they are what they are. Both women and men oppose funding abortion in health-care reform. Even among Democrats, more people say that abortion funding makes them less likely to support Obamaโ€™s plan than say that it makes them more supportive. The opposition to abortion funding is intenseโ€“and surely more so in the districts of vulnerable Democrats than the national poll linked above suggests.