BREAKING: Obama strikes deal with pro-life Dems to cinch health care passage- in exchange for strengthened abortion ban!
President Obama, who campaigned on a pledge to seek repeal of the Hyde Amendment banning the use of Federal funds to pay for abortions, has agreed instead to issue an executive order strengthening the ban in exchange for the votes of pro-life House Democrats who had threatened to oppose it.
The bill will almost certainly now pass. In the process, however, Bart Stupak and his fellow "Blue Dogs" have won a major victory for the pro-life cause.
ADDENDUM: Or not. The consensus among thoughtful observers seems to be that no executive order can trump the provisions of a law which- the protests of its supporters to the contrary- does indeed mandate the use of Federal funds for elective
abortions.
Stupak and company seem to have been snookered.
The bill will almost certainly now pass. In the process, however, Bart Stupak and his fellow "Blue Dogs" have won a major victory for the pro-life cause.
ADDENDUM: Or not. The consensus among thoughtful observers seems to be that no executive order can trump the provisions of a law which- the protests of its supporters to the contrary- does indeed mandate the use of Federal funds for elective
abortions.
Stupak and company seem to have been snookered.
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