Obama Administration Ignoring Pro-Life Democrats in Health Care Reform Debate

Bart Stupak

When former community organizer, Barack Obama, was state senator from Illinois, he actually defended a bill that denied medical services to babies who were survivers of botched abortion attempts.

That’s how much this president doesn’t care about the sanctity of life. Some Pro-Life Democrats like Bart Stupak want to remove the language in Obama Care that provides federal funding of abortions.

However, Obama, Reid and Pelosi are so desperate to install government run health care that they are not considering Stupak’s concerns.

National Review Online reports:

Sitting in an airport, on his way home to Michigan, Rep. Bart Stupak, a pro-life Democrat, is chagrined.

“They’re ignoring me,” he says, in a phone interview with NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE. “That’s their strategy now. The House Democratic leaders think they have the votes to pass the Senate’s health-care bill without us. At this point, there is no doubt that they’ve been able to peel off one or two of my twelve. And even if they don’t have the votes, it’s been made clear to us that they won’t insert our language on the abortion issue.”
According to Stupak, that group of twelve pro-life House Democrats — the “Stupak dozen” — has privately agreed for months to vote ‘no’ on the Senate’s health-care bill if federal funding for abortion is included in the final legislative language.

Now, in the debate’s final hours, Stupak says the other eleven are coming under “enormous” political pressure from both the White House and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.).

“I am a definite ‘no’ vote,” he says. “I didn’t cave. The others are having both of their arms twisted, and we’re all getting pounded by our traditional Democratic supporters, like unions.”

Stupak notes that his negotiations with House Democratic leaders in recent days have been revealing.

“I really believe that the Democratic leadership is simply unwilling to change its stance,” he says.

“Their position says that women, especially those without means available, should have their abortions covered.”
The arguments they have made to him in recent deliberations, he adds, “are a pretty sad commentary on the state of the Democratic party.”
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There have been 50 million babies killed since 1973. That sounds like an American Holocaust to me.

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Dem Rep. Lynn Woolsey: House May Pass Senate Bill Without Recorded Vote

Now we’re getting to the nitty gritty final maneuvers of the unwanted health care reform bill and Democrats are getting more devious and cowardly, even for Democrats!

An idea is floating around the halls of congress that Obama Care can be passed WITHOUT a vote.

Can anybody say UNCONSTITUTIONAL?

From ABC News:

As House Democrats press for final passage of a health care bill, a legislative scenario has emerged whereby the House wouldn't have to take a formal roll call vote to endorse the Senate version of the legislation.

Instead, the House would craft a special piece of legislation declaring the Senate bill to have been passed by the House when the House approves its package of “fixes” under the budget reconciliation process. That would spare House members of the perception of endorsing politically explosive Senate deals such as the “Cornhusker Kickback.”

On ABC’s “Top Line” today, Rep. Lynn Woolsey, co-chair of the House Progressive Caucus, said that scenario is attractive to many House Democrats who have serious reservations about the Senate bill.
“I don’t need to see my colleagues vote for the Senate bill in the House. We don’t like the Senate bill. Why should we be forced to do that?” said Woolsey, D-Calif. “But what we need to know, before any Senate bill is passed, that we have enough of the fixes that we’ve asked for, that we will be satisfied with the final product as a beginning for health care [reform].”
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Incredible!

James Madison would surely turn over in his graveif the Democrats went on with this cowardly demonstration.
This is what President Obama and the Democrats bring to the table, more deception and arrogance.

Remember this?


Via ABC News

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