Will Obama Mention Abortion?

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on tonight’s speech by President Obama on health care reform:

Will President Obama mention abortion tonight? Not a chance. Abortion is perhaps the most divisive moral issue in America, and because the president wants to force the taxpayers to pay for abortion (it would be covered in the public plan), he is not going to go near it. The manly thing to do would be to address it head-on.

No segment of American society has been more supportive of universal health care than the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Moreover, this isn’t something new: the bishops have a long-standing commitment to health care reform. Their support, then, for the very bills endorsed by the president should be a slam dunk. Just the opposite is true—they’ve walked away from the table. All because of abortion.

The rational thing to do would be to drop abortion from the health care bills and support conscience rights for health care workers. Then the bishops would come back to the table. The president could take the opportunity tonight to do so. But he won’t. He won’t because he is inextricably tied to the most radical segments of the abortion industry. If I am wrong, I will be glad to say so tomorrow.

1 posted on 09/09/2009 10:57:42 AM PDT by mlizzy

2 posted on 09/09/2009 10:58:53 AM PDT by mlizzy (Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration Chapels Everywhere spells P.E.A.C.E.)

I would doubt that he would bring it up. He’ll not bring up “Y1” either. This should scare the hell out of insurance companies.

3 posted on 09/09/2009 10:59:28 AM PDT by RC2 (Our Failure is Not an Option)

He will say nothing (in words) or lie..

4 posted on 09/09/2009 11:03:22 AM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)

or TORT REFORM,

or ILLEGAL ALIENS

or DEATH PANELS ??

Not !

5 posted on 09/09/2009 11:04:02 AM PDT by Reagan69 (The only thing SHOVEL-READY since BO's stimulus has been MICHAEL JACKSON (tammy bruce))

There is no chance of enacting government health coverage that doesn’t cover abortion. He doesn’t have to say it.

6 posted on 09/09/2009 11:09:36 AM PDT by marron

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7 posted on 09/09/2009 11:14:03 AM PDT by mlizzy (Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration Chapels Everywhere spells P.E.A.C.E.)

Bill Donohue is a great American.

8 posted on 09/09/2009 11:39:48 AM PDT by Reagan Man ("In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.")

No such thing as “abortion”.

It’s “women’s health services”.

9 posted on 09/09/2009 11:41:23 AM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)

Obama will say abortion isn’t funded. Of course, he won’t say how it will be funded indirectly by taxpayer subsidies for people who select health plans that do.

10 posted on 09/09/2009 11:44:12 AM PDT by kabar

I’ve never been for Abortion. However, since Obama has been unleashed upon this Country,it’s a pity his mother didn’t have one!

11 posted on 09/09/2009 1:41:06 PM PDT by Patsygirl

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