The one benefit of Stupak was that it was a bit like William Wilberforce's tactic that finally ended the slave trade. Wilberforce and his allies took away the broad protection that allowed
all trade along the triangle trade route to be protected from war-time boarding. They did this by making it illegal for a ship to change its colors after leaving a given port. Immediately, the vast majority of the slave trade was halted. The slave-trade monies that went to buy off the supporters in Parliament dried up, so support in Parliament dwindled very quickly.
Similarly, if the government takes over the health-insurance business, and no government money is allowed to go to pay for abortions, then almost immediately the vast majority of abortion in this country would cease. This would dry up the funding to the Democratic Party from groups like Planned Parenthood. There would be no economic incentive for Democratic politicians to support abortion. Within a few decades (once the effect reverberated up to composition of Supreme Court nominees), abortion on demand would cease. That was the only positive of this bill. If Stupak is stripped, it will lose a lot of support.
If it said, “life of the mother”, I’d have supported it. As it is, it is possible to do an end-around.
Stupak is a red herring. It is there to provide cover for the Dems in conservative districts, but gov’t subsidized abortions will find another funding source or be placed in the bill by some judge.