President Obama’s threat to Indiana to cut off over $4 billion in Medicaid funding if they refuse to fund Planned Parenthood is paying pro-abortion dividends by scaring other states from voting on pro-life legislation – which is exactly what the threat was intended to do.
Louisiana seemed all set to vote on a bill that would have included abortion in its criminal feticide laws. The pro-life bill would have, of course, included no exception for rape and incest which would make it go a little further than the federal Hyde Amendment which now contains an exception for rape and incest. So some legislators with cold feet panicked and said that if they go further than Hyde, Big Bad Obama might remove all their Medicaid funding too.
This scare tactic scared enough Republicans that the bill, which had seemed certain to pass, was tabled -which is another way of saying it’s radioactive and nobody wants anything to do with it.
Personhood USA has lots of details on the legislation but here’s the upshot – Obama’s threat to cut off Indiana from Medicaid funding is working because other states are all taking a wait and see attitude with their pro-life legislation.
Let’s pray that Indiana does the right thing. There’s so much riding on them.
Think about what Obama’s doing in Indiana for one second. He’s threatening to cut off all Medicaid funding for his abortion buddies. This is a state that Obama carried in ’08 by 1%. He knows that this isn’t going to help him there but the White House’s devotion to Big Abortion is so sacrosanct and committed that he’s willing to lose an entire state because of it.
Obama’s going to the mattresses on this fight. Let’s hope Governor Mitch Daniels is similarly committed to a culture of life.
June 14, 2011 at 3:47 am
Obama forfeit his citizenship in America if he ever had one when he denied unalienable right to Life to the newly begotten created soul of the human being. Every human being Obama causes to be put to death is a constitutent of Obama's presidency. All those infants souls are watching and waiting to see what Obama will do to their sisters and brothers. It is time to pray as never before and enlist the aid of these aborted children to put Obama in his place. Taxes are our money even while being administered by the government. Obama does not believe that. He wields the power of the purse like Mohammed wielded his sword. Death to everybody.
June 14, 2011 at 12:15 pm
Let us pray the rosary of Our Lady that the aborted souls of our innocent posterity visit Obama and all those guilty of not preserving their Life, Liberty and the pursuit of their Happiness as government is duty bound to do by Our Declaration of Independence and our constitutional Preamble. The souls of our constitutional posterity are created in absolute and perfect innocence, moral and legal innocence. The evil one would deprive man of this heavenly gift: the immaculate souls who renew the face of the earth because of he jealousy the devil bears for the souls of men and the hatred the devil bears for God. Unless man renews his love for almighty God, virtue, innocence and TRUTH, America will fall headlong into the black hole of hell. The devil has no soul. The atheist has a soul which he despises. The aborted child's soul, scandalized by being aborted, deserves the Justice of facing his accuser, the corrupt law of the land that aborted his sovereign person and those implementing abortion. Let the souls, Dear Lord, of the aborted visit their abortionists. Let freedom ring.
Mary De Voe
June 14, 2011 at 3:40 pm
This is a familiar strong arm tactic. Here in Texas we were about to pass a law against the TSA touching people in private areas, but the Obama Administration threatened to stop all air traffic in and out of Texas. We caved, and tabled.
The only cold comfort is maybe being exempted from Obamacare in the future when the bad children don't behave. Such is life under tyrants.