"What changed was Stupak’s sense of how the new law treated abortion funding, and that change came about by eliciting an executive order from the President to ensure that the new law is implemented in such a way so as to achieve what all sides said they wanted in the current debate, a ban on federal funding of abortion. Ah, but what did change is that once he was satisfied on abortion, he decided to vote for the health care bill and that, my friends, is what his conservative critics could not abide." http://bit.ly/9z8jUl
Monday, March 22, 2010
http://bit.ly/9z8jUl Michael Sean Winters: Did [Stupak] Cave?
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Stupac should have listened to the Bishops . . . and Planned Parenthood and the National Organization for Women, for that matter. After all, it's not everyday you find such diverse parties in agreement on the utter worthlessness of an executive order.
It's my impression that Stupak worked closely with the Bishops on drafting his amendment. Makes it all the more heartbreaking to see him up there, arguing against it.
Yes, Christopher... I've seen all that. Frankly, it's the prolife movement that has lost its credibility for me, and not the prolife democrats. It also becomes clear to me the lip service that the GOP pays to the unborn and the reason that democrats typically are unmoved by the rhetoric of rights and justice by prolifers. Prolife really is nothing but an emotional appeal for the full Republican agenda. Spin baby spin.
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