Despite Politico’s swooning piece calling Nancy Pelosi the “master” of House Democrats by passing nationalized healthcare, and despite the elation…

… and despite the “mixed reaction” described by the pro-abortion blog RH Reality Check, there is trouble in Dodge City.
For starters, Planned Parenthood now opposes the House healthcare bill…

PP condemns the adoption of the Stupak/Pitts amendment in HR 3962 this evening….
[T]he PP Federation of America has no choice but to oppose HR 3962….

PP and NARAL are both vowing to try to strip the Stupak/Pitts amendment in the Senate and then in conference.
Meanwhile med student Megan Evans, president of George Washington University’s Medical Students for Choice and abortionist aspirant, sobbed. Watching her golden parachute splat to the ground unopened with passage of Stupak/Pitts, Megan wrote on RH Reality Check:
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After hearing the results of the Stupak-Amendment this evening, I burst into tears. Normally, when these ridiculous bills are passed and, once again, a road block is placed in front of women’s health, I grit my teeth, curse under my breath, and prepare to face another challenge in the world of reproductive health. Tonight, though, my emotions took over and I wept. If you know me, you know I don’t cry easily. But my tears weren’t for me. I was crying for the thousands upon thousands of women this bill affects….

Oh, brother. Megan wins the pro-abort drama queen award for the night, crying crocodile tears in the truest sense of the term.
Frances Kissling, former president of Catholics for Free Choice, plans to channel her negative energy to overturn the Hyde Amendment:

Sorting through feelings as well as strategies in the face of the enormous defeat that the passage of a health care reform bill that so severely and punishingly restricts access to abortion will take time and hard political decisions….

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But the immediate take away is the cold hard fact that our biggest and most costly defeat since 1973 was the enactment of the Hyde Amendment and our lack of a total, uncompromising commitment to overturning it. If nothing else happens as a result of this defeat, complete and total dedication to overturning Hyde must be the centerpiece, indeed the single objective of our movement. It is not clear if the effect of the Stupak Amendment will be that the door will close on ever restoring federal funds for abortion, but every effort to make sure that does not happen must be made….
President Obama has always supported overturning Hyde and we now need to insist that having achieved his political objective with strong support from the women’s movement, he must take up the true moral cause….
Joe Biden and any pro-choice Democrat who has not been for over turning Hyde needs to change their mind – and we need to insist they do so….

We must thank God today for stopping the expansion of abortion and then return to work tomorrow, stopping nationalized healthcare that despite any anti-abortion provisions still rations care of the disabled and elderly.
[Photo of Evans via the Washington Post]

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