Posted on 12/17/2009 10:19:51 AM PST by NYer
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- In yet another comment that will draw guffaws from pro-life advocates, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is thankful to God that the Senate bill include massive abortion funding. Pelosi also claims she has enough votes to pass a pro-abortion health care bill in the House, though that is disputed.
The Senate bill, unlike the House government-run health care measure, funds abortions though the public option and affordability credits.
In a press conference with reporters late Wednesday, Pelosi talked about the differences between the House and Senate bills, some of which she liked and some disliked. But she appealed to a higher power in complementing one aspect oft eh Senate measure.
The Senate bill "doesn't have a public option, doesn't expand Medicare for the (age) 55 to 64 group, and has abortion language that is completely different from the House -- thank God."
Pelosi told reporters she believes the House can approve the Senate bill or a merged conference committee measure even without the Stupak amendment the House added on a large bipartisan vote to remove abortion funding.
"We'll see now, won't we," she said.
Pelosi then added, "Let me tell you why I'm confident this will happen: If we stipulate to three points -- that we all want to pass health-care reform, and that we won't have any federal funding for abortion, and third that this is abortion-neutral, that it is not an expansion or (limitation) of abortion rights -- that is what everybody says they want, including the (Catholic) bishops and everybody else."
"Stupak goes beyond the three principles," she claimed.
Pelosi also said she thinks she can get enough votes from Democrats to pass the bill -- "I never count on Republicans."
However, Rep. Bart Stupak, the Michigan congressman who sponsored the amendment to cut off abortion funding, says he thinks enough pro-life Democrats will vote against the bill if the amendment is removed to kill it.
"Like Santa, I've checked my list this week and we're confident that there are a minimum of 10 to 12 votes for the bill that cannot vote for it if we don't come to some kind of agreement," Stupak said, according to the New Orleans Times Picayune newspaper.
One of those is Rep. Anh "Joseph" Cao of New Orleans, the only Republican to vote for the bill when the House backed it 220-215 in November.
He is pro-life and says if the abortion funding ban is removed he is a certain no vote.
"I won't vote for it without it," he said, according to the newspaper.
With Stupak and Cao, the vote total is 218-217 and just one more lawmaker willing to oppose the bill without the abortion funding ban would defeat it.
Other House members may also vote against the Senate bill or a conference committee version for other reasons -- including liberals who don't like that the Senate bill is a watered down version of the House measure.
At this point, I say let them abort themselves.
Can you call the Speaker of the House a douchenozzle on FR???
get a pass out of the confessional booth?
Because she’s a CINO, Catholic in name only.
Nancy Pelosi is thanking her “god” Satan. She ought to be ashamed of herself.
Not so fast Nancy ( as Lee Corso says) . See Ben Nelson.
OMG. A presumptively Catholic woman thanking God that we will all be forced to pay for abortion on demand?!?!? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?!?!? Are we in the Twilight Zone?
GEEZ is Nancy trying to kill this thing off for good or is she just this stupid to give voice to her crazy ideas out loud right now?
Thank you Archbishop Niederauer, again the fruits of your understanding and compassionate discipline are felt by all.
Freegards
Nancy should lead the way and late-term abort her grown children and her grandchildren. That will also take care of the CO2 they exhale causing worldwide global warming.
Pure nutcase!!!
I know I’m gonna get flamed, but I’m all for abortions for the 55 to 64 age bracket. Or did I read this wrong?
Satan is the “god of this world” (2 Cor 4:4),
so that’s probably to whom she was referring.
Um... Bel, Baal... no, what was it, Molech, that’s it.
You have to understand that the BIGGEST driver behind most pro-aborts is that THEY’VE HAD ONE and demand that there be NO INDICATION in society, in law, or in the culture, that what they did was wrong.
All the better if everyone else is made to be complicit in paying for them as well.
Well she won’t have to worry, she is to OLD and DRIED UP to have this wonderful procedure performed on her, just like she, and other elected officials, don’t have to worry about this great medical plan that is being forced on the common people.
Wait until the hammer comes down in the election of 2010 and 2012.
You have been warned, please ignore this so you can have your butts handed to you.
I doubt that she will be “thanking” God at the moment of her death when she finds she is headings down into the inferno of hell.
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