Posted on 11/20/2009 6:28:52 AM PST by Wolf13
“The Speaker is not happy with me”
--Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) commenting on Nancy Pelosi’s reaction to his amendment that would prohibit taxpayer-funded abortion in healthcare reform.
The healthcare bills working their way through Congress should be opposed, and for so many reasons. They would ration care, expand entitlements, make all Americans dependent on government-approved insurance plans and add to our already stifling national debt. The bill passed by the House is horrendous. Whatever emerges from the Senate and later from the congressional conference committee should be opposed full stop.
That said, there is an interesting debate taking place among congressional Democrats about whether to include an amendment to prohibit taxpayer funding of abortion. At the conclusion of that debate, Democrats will face a revealing choice: between achieving their most sought after legislative goal and appeasing their pro-abortion fringe.
Put simply, the life and death of the healthcare bill may rest, literally, on life and death.
The Stupak-Pitts amendment to the House health care reform bill bans individuals from using new government subsidies to buy insurance plans that cover abortion, and prohibits a government-run plan from carrying abortion coverage, except in cases of rape, incest or when a mother’s life is endangered. The Stupak amendment is essentially an extension of the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits most federal tax dollars from funding abortions in Medicaid.
The Stupak amendment passed 240-194, with support from 64 House Democrats and all but one Republican.
While some pro-lifers were encouraged by this vote, given the Democratic Party’s unflinching fidelity to the radical abortion lobby, I find it highly unlikely that the final health care bill will prohibit taxpayer funding of abortion.
Abortion groups are already complaining publicly about Democrats for abandoning their cause.
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Abortion will be in the bill because DEMOCRATS believe in ultimate control. What better ‘ultimate control’ than to wield the power of life over an unborn soul?
They will force everyone to pay for abortions through taxes because they don’t want to get the screaming fang-toothed feminazis angry. They know how to get revenge.
I asked the staffer whether we in Florida had elected a Senator who was absolutely stupid or didn't understand what his constituency was up in arms about. That, at least in Southwest Florida, we are pro-life, and to have a Senator serving us with no opinion was absolutely abhorrent!
Staffer said we would “find out” when Senator Nelson voted or he “may” issue some type of statement today.
Also asked how did the Senator plan to read almost 3,0000 pages of the bill between now and tomorrow when the vote was scheduled.....no comment.
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I asked the staffer whether we in Florida had elected a Senator who was absolutely stupid or didn't understand what his constituency was up in arms about. That, at least in Southwest Florida, we are pro-life, and to have a Senator serving us with no opinion was absolutely abhorrent!
Staffer said we would “find out” when Senator Nelson voted or he “may” issue some type of statement today.
Also asked how did the Senator plan to read almost 3,0000 pages of the bill between now and tomorrow when the vote was scheduled.....no comment.
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Any government run healthcare system WILL include abortion, either outright at it’s inception or later on through amendments.
It’s a guarantee.
There was a provision that REQUIRED any “approved” plan to have at least $1 per policy to pay for abortion.
I didn’t get it at first, then I understood. They want to make sure EVERY person in the system is complicit, and so less likely to object.
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