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Even as the senate took a significant step forward passing its version of a sweeping overhaul of the health insurance system, Democrats were grappling with deep internal divisions over abortion, the issue that most complicates their drive to merge the senate and house bills and send final legislation to Obama. In the House, lawyers and opponents of abortion rights and conservative Democrats have made clear that they object, for different reasons, to the Senate’s compromise language on abortion. Those groups which are interested on both sides of the spectrum -Planned Parenthood on the abortion rights side, Catholic bishops for the ant-abortion rights camp-also oppose the abortion provision in the senate bill. The senate bill cleared a major hurdle when the senate voted 60 to 40, along party lines, to limit debate on the guts of its measure. The House, more lenient than the senate on many issues would impose more stringent restrictions, barring coverage of abortion by any health plan bought even partly with federal subsidies. Under the bill that is likely to be agreed this week by the senate, health plans could cover abortion. But people who enroll in such plans would have one cheque for abortion coverage and one for everything else.