Remember when Obama told the joint session of Congress in his speech:
And one more misunderstanding I want to clear up — under our plan, no federal dollars will be used to fund abortions, and federal conscience laws will remain in place.
Well, it looks like Obama wasn’t lying (as Joe Wilson loudly claimed.) Obama was simply referring to a pretend bill that nobody’s ever actually written and exists only in his head. See. And you thought he was lying.
CNS is reporting:
Rep. Bart Stupak (D.-Mich.) told CNSNews.com that President Barack Obama told him in a telephone conversation that when he said in his Sept. 9 speech to a joint session of Congress that “under our plan no federal dollars will be used to fund abortions” he was not talking about the actual bill drafted in the House but about the president’s own health care plan—which has never been written.
“I don’t know if it is a game of semantics or what,” Stupak said of Obama’s nationally televised declaration to Congress that the health-care plan will not allow federal funding of abortion…
Wow. The brazenness of it all is just disturbing.
This whole thing might just come down to Obama vs. Stupak. In Stupak, we may be looking at a modern day profile in courage. The entire weight of the Democratic Party is sure to lean on him in coming weeks. Let’s hope and pray that he can stand up to it and hold to his pro-life convictions.
October 28, 2009 at 5:16 pm
Bart Stupak is my hero.
October 28, 2009 at 6:50 pm
A true profile in courage – not like some others I can think of.
October 28, 2009 at 7:51 pm
Not so fast with the bouquets: See the Youtube video of Bart Stupak at a town hall meeting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acJM9iAnoQU
via the Foundry blog of the Heritage Foundation.
October 28, 2009 at 9:19 pm
Kevin,
thanks for the heads up.
October 29, 2009 at 4:36 am
I'm watching Stupak on Chris Matthews right now, and he's talking a good game.
Matthews just made what I think is a good point: Federal monies already go to hospitals that do abortions. 80% of private insurance plans provide for abortions, and there are already government subsidies that people use to purchase such plans.
Hyde Amendment aside, we are already indirectly subsisizing abortion.
We're so corrupt, the Pro Life struggle is seeming more and more hopeless to me.. Politics is the art of the possible, and barring a miracle or huge chastisement, Americans will never change on this.
I think that Stupak is doing his level best to stop the direct funding. That clip Kevin posts aside, I still think this guy is a prince amongst politicians, and I hope he succeeds in getting abortion out of the bill..