Multiple sources are reporting that Stupak’s anti-abortion amendment, that would basically prevent all insurance plans sold in the individual and small group market from covering elective abortion, is expected to pass. It would be the most far reaching restriction place on abortion at the national level in years. Moments ago on MSNBC, Bart Stupak (D-Mich) affirmatively said that his amendment will pass.
It is assumed that if Stupak’s amendment is included in the bill several conservative Democrats will vote to pass the overall health care reform measure. Indications are that there not enough pro-choice Democrats willing to vote against the bill if it includes the Stupak amendment to bring down the bill.
The pro-choice Democrats failed to draw a line in the sand over the issue and that led to Stupak’s complete victory. Stupak’s amendment is the only Democratic amendment that will be allowed to be offered on the floor. If it is included in the final bill that passes the House it would be a huge victory for the opponents of a woman’s right to choose.
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How did it get this far?
and yet the single-payer people agreed to drop their amendments or let up on the pressure, assuming that no amendments would be allowed. The left just got punkd
i don’t think anyone agree to have the kucinich amendment dropped – to permit states to experiment with single payer – that was the amendment that really matters.
does anyone think a republican president would have been allowed to do this?
No, but hasn’t that been the way it has worked lately? A pseudo-dem is elected and then introduces odious “reforms” to welfare, trade, etc, which are invariably counter to the interests of those who were conned into electing them?
yes. even worse than clinton era redux.
Where is the Pro-Choice bloc threatening to vote down the bill if the Stupak amendment passes? When your vote is taken for granted, you lose all your power.
If this goes through, all my money that would have gone to candidates will go directly to NAAF to help fund abortions for those who can’t afford it.
There’s a pledge I can get behind.
good call. thanks.
wouldn’t it be cheaper to buy them condoms?
When do we demand that the taxes we send to Washington not fund the Defense Department and their genocidal policies?
Women are being made second class citizens by a so called Democrat, Bart Stupak. Does he have a daughter? More than likely he has a Stepford wife.