Someone call the president! Stupak says executive order bars contraceptive mandate
Greta Van Susteren interviewed former Congressman Bart Stupak last night to get his take on the Obama administration’s new mandate forcing religious institutions to cover contraception, abortifacients, and sterilization in their employee insurance plans.
Pro-lifers will have no trouble remembering Stupak as the leader of a group of pro-life Democrats who signed on to Obamacare in 2009 after President Obama wrote an executive order attempting to allay pro-life concerns that taxpayer funded abortions might be hidden in the bill.
But pro-lifers were not alone in saying the executive order was worth the paper it was written on. So did such renowned abortion proponents as Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards and former Obama Chief-of-Staff Rahm Emanuel.
Stupak echoed former colleague Kathy Dahlkemper’s recent contention that the executive order not only protects taxpayers from funding abortion but also protects religious healthcare entities from the contraception mandate.
Someone needs to call the president.
Stupak’s response here is incorrect (and frustrating) but relevant…





