Posted on 03/21/2010 3:46:20 PM PDT by tobyhill
Moments ago, Bart Stupak signed on to support health care reform after the President issued an executive order, reiterating that the bill would not allow for public funding of abortion. That won over Stupak and many other anti-abortion rights, but has done little to sway groups that oppose abortion rights.
The National Right to Life, Americans United for Life, Family Research Council, and Susan B. Anthony List have all come out against the executive order strategy. Three of Stupaks anti-abortion rights colleagues, Dan Lipinski, Jerry Costello, and Gene Taylor, still oppose the bill, according to the National Review Online.
These groups have regularly blasted the Nelson language as an accounting gimmick that would not actually prevent federal funding of abortion. I should note here that numerous fact-checks by both news organizations and non-partisan watchdogs have been explicit that this is not the case: the Senate bill would not allow for federal abortion funding.
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Leni
The list, ping
Stupak The Stupid
Here’s why stupak is and always intended to be a traitor. An EO pertains to a directive by the President to an executive agency. It cannot appropriate money not otherwise authorized by Congress. This Congress has now votged to subsidize abortions by way of a variety state mandates and regulatory gimmickry. No EO can ‘rescind’ that mandate. It’s civics 101 and stupak has to know that. Shame on him. At least with pelosi we know the enemy, but stupak is the worst kind of traitor.
stupak and the rest knew this before it ever happened....obama knew he had the votes wrapped up when he called for a vote.....or he wouldnt have.
Does he really think the pro-aborts who support 0bama will allow this EO to stand?
Traitors!
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