I guess if you keep reading the Senate bill over and over again, you discover some secret code that means that it doesn’t really cover abortions, even though they already admitted it covered abortions.
Oddly, the Stupak amendment didn’t cover abortions, and the Senate voted it down, and voted FOR the current Senate bill — which also proves that it covers abortions.
SO in the end, the pro-life movement, which pushed the Stupak vote as a pro-life vote, may well have led to the lifting of pro-life restrictions in health care, by forcing republicans to vote for the amendment that led to passing the house bill, even though we all knew the language would never survive.
Stupid Stupid Stupid. We are still holding out hope that democrats will do the right thing — like when do democrats ever do the right thing.
Excellent point. That is what happens when you have single issue groups who have no general philsophy.