Obama to sign executive order strengthening abortion ban; Stupak and company will vote for the health care bill
Congressman Stupak and his fellow pro-life Democrats have agreed to support the health care bill in exchange for a promise by President Obama- who campaigned as an opponent of the Hyde Amendment forbidding the use of Federal funds for abortions- to issue an executive order strengthening the ban.
The bill will almost certainly now pass. But a major pro-life victory has been won in the process by Stupak and his fellow "Blue Dogs."
ADDENDUM: Scratch that last comment. A consensus is emerging among thoughtful opponents of the bill that no executive order can trump the statutory requirements of the bill itself.
Rep. Stupak and his colleagues have not, after all, won a victory for the pro-life cause, major or otherwise. They have simply been snookered by the administration.
The bill will almost certainly now pass. But a major pro-life victory has been won in the process by Stupak and his fellow "Blue Dogs."
ADDENDUM: Scratch that last comment. A consensus is emerging among thoughtful opponents of the bill that no executive order can trump the statutory requirements of the bill itself.
Rep. Stupak and his colleagues have not, after all, won a victory for the pro-life cause, major or otherwise. They have simply been snookered by the administration.
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