In any other year when the top Republican candidate didn’t also support public funding of abortions, this might be a titanic Republican campaign issue. It still could be but we will see.

Elizabeth Edwards said Tuesday that her husband’s health-care plan would provide insurance coverage of abortion.

Asked about his proposal for expanded access to health insurance, Obama said it would cover “reproductive-health services.” Contacted afterward, an Obama spokesman said that included abortions.

Since both candidates are exploring a universal health care plan that pretty much amounts to tax-payer funding of abortion.