Joseph asked, “And where is Planned Parenthood going to go? Are they going to withdraw their support from President Obama and the Democrats?”
They won’t have to go anywhere. After Planned Parenthood got off the phone with House Democrats, the liberal caucus decided it would kill any healthcare legislation that didn’t provide funding to kill the unborn. From the Washington Post:
The amendment passed with the support of 64 Democrats, roughly a quarter of the party caucus.
But abortion-rights supporters are vowing to strip the amendment out, as the focus turns to the Senate and the conference committee that would resolve differences between the two bills.
Although House liberals voted for the bill with the amendment to keep the process moving forward, Rep. Diana DeGette (Colo.) said she has collected more than 40 signatures from House Democrats vowing to oppose any final bill that includes the amendment—enough to block passage.
“There’s going to be a firestorm here,” DeGette said. “Women are going to realize that a Democratic-controlled House has passed legislation that would prohibit women paying for abortions with their own funds. . . . We’re not going to let this into law.”
November 9th, 2009 | 12:15 pm
The Stupak amendment seems to me a mixed blessing.
On the one hand, it shows how strong the anti-abortion attitude has become in our culture. That’s good news.
On the other hand, it seems clear that, whatever the final bill says, when all the details are filled in by the leftist apparatchiks who will oversee the nationalized “health care” system at ground level, abortion will be just as common and will be funded by us paying our taxes.
On the other other hand, if this vote means we have Obamacare in any form, there will be many other toxic effects on the political, economic and cultural system of this fair land–such as government-endorsed euthanasia and/or assisted suicide. God help us.
November 9th, 2009 | 10:37 pm
1. As I wrote in another post, if anything remotely like this is enacted, the govt will be paying for abortions within 5 years, whether through legislation, regulation, or judicial usurpation.
2. WaPo is (intentionally?) misleading—a Conference Committee is not limited to working through the differences between the bills that passed the 2 Houses, it can introduce new things that were in neither, which is then presented back to the 2 Houses to take it or leave it. Innthis instance, both Houses can pass bills that forbid funding abortion, that does not constrain the Conference from putting abortion fiunding in the final bill. I have felt for some months that this is, in fact, the strategy–just get something, anything out of both Houses of Congress, rewrite it all in Conference, then present it right before a recess and schedule a vote on no notice, and twist everyone’s arms off. Not just as regards abortion, but single payer and a whole lot of other lighning-rods.
THE ONLY WAY TO KILL IT IS TO KILL IT.
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