The Pro-Life forces, put a wedge into the Democrat caucus in the House, and forced major compromises in the Senate. Now the Senate bill, putting in abortion restrictions and also having dropped the public option and Medicare debacle, may be opposed by the liberal wings of the D party in the House bill.
What if Stupak hadn’t passed? It would have split pro-life Rs and Ds and PelosLIE would have just thrown the Pro-life Ds under the bus (how many of them are there??) Then, once the bill came back out of the Senate, it would have had stronger abortion support in it, and it would have been easier to reconcile and pass it, than it will be now that Stupak and other pro-lifers have some amount of power in the House.
IMHO, the abortion wedge still exists to help defeat/delay this bill. I don’t think you can unequivocally say/claim that the pro-life caucus ARE the cause of this bill being where it is.
No, it is where it is because the American people stupidly installed socialist majorities in the House and Senate with a WH cherry on top.
If she could have so easily thrown those prolife rats under the bus then, what difference does it make now? So all we get is a tiny phantom bone for the pro-lifers,but you really believe they still won`t throw them under that bus?Or have those formerly helpless prolife rats magically become important?Make up your mind,either they were superfluous or not.And just how would that have caused more Republicrats to have voted FOR it.