The Homa Files

Rep. Bart Stupak, an avid pro-lifer, led the effort to get the PelosiCare bill amended to specifically exclude funding of abortions.

When the amendment passed, about 40 Dem pro-lifers became comfortable voting for the bill,

Even before the ink dried, the pro-choicers went on the attack.  Dem leaders quelled the couter-insurrection by hinting that the provision would be stricken when the Senate and House bills went “to conference”.

Now, according to Axlerod (on Fox News nonetheless), Pres. Obama will aid and abet stripping abortion language from any healthcare bill.  In doing so, the president would be heeding the call of abortion rights supporters like Planned Parenthood that have called the White House their “strongest weapon” in keeping such restrictions out of the bill.

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Question #1: Didn’t Stupak smell this one coming? 

Answer: No.  He assumed a certain honor among thieves.

Silly boy.

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Question #2: Why did he Congressional GOPers vote in favor of the Stupak Amendment?  If they had voted no and it failed to pass, then the Dem pro-lifers would have voted against the bill.

Answer: Reportedly, GOP pro-lifers gave Stupak their word that they’d vote in favor of the amendment and didn’t want to go back on their word.

Silly boys (and girls)

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Full article:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/15/axelrod-signals-obama-try-strip-abortion-language-health-care/

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