The bill that was passed in November never passed the Senate and isn't really relevant, IMO.
The continuing attempt to lay this disaster at the feet of the Catholic church is really rather strange. The Church can't even tell its own members how to vote without raising the "separation of church and state! Papist takeover!" hue and cry, and now they're supposed to stop a bill from going through Congress?
I'll tell you who I blame for this disaster: the American voter.
There are many to share responsibility. But the local arms of the Roman Catholic Church have largely gone looey and thus given up some influence they could have had to the good. Salt and light has been hidden. I’ve debated this before and I am not a Roman Catholic so you may think I’m just bashing that church.
NRTL bullied the Repubs to vote for Stupak.
That was a result of either of two stategies,
NRTL was too stupid to to see that Stupak was going to do as he announced in an October town hall meeting, and vote for a bill with tax-payer funded abortions when the chips were down
OR
NRTL is actually in cahoots with Planned Parenthood and was just playing the Repubs for fools, and this was NRTLs way to speed government funded abortions.
Either way NRTL is unfit to have any part of the Pro-Lfe movement.