UPDATE, 9:37: UPDATE, 10:08a: The Associated Press is reporting there will be “no deal” on abortion: A top House Democrat says party leaders are unlikely to cut a deal with abortion opponents to pass President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul….
If you haven’t yet grabbed your 1st cup of coffee this morning, you won’t need it after viewing the following 1:34 clip from a news conference House Speaker Nancy Pelosi held yesterday. For starters, it is verboten to interject religion into politics – unless you’re a Democrat trying to pass pro-abort legislation. At this beginning […]
by JivinJ, host of the blog, House Minority Leader John Boehner on Obamacare: Boehner believes that abortion will be the key complication for on-the-fence Democrats in the final hours. “I’ve always thought that this would be the issue,” he says. “This is public funding for abortion. They know it can’t be fixed. There just aren’t […]
by JivinJ, host of the blog, James Taranto talks about ObamaCare and eugenics: Getting government into the eugenics business would have disturbing implications for reproductive liberty. What would happen to a woman who received, say, a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome? She would be free (as she is today) to exercise her right to have […]
Philip Klein in the CQ Politics piece…
Here’s amazing news. Did you know the Stupak Amendment in the House’s healthcare bill actually bans private insurance companies from covering abortion? That’s what Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards claimed in an email today: Now that Congressional leaders and the White House are pushing for a final vote on health care reform, Congressman Bart Stupak […]
1st, Erick Erickson at Michelle Malkin is reporting the GOP “will announce this morning a plan to force a vote this week on a resolution that would require the Senate health care bill to be brought to an actual up-or-down vote…. If passed by the House, the resolution would prohibit Speaker Pelosi from implementing the […]
UDPATE, 12:17p: Latest whip count from Politico last night: Rep. Jason Altmire, a PA Democrat who has positioned himself as a key swing vote, said he thinks leadership is seriously struggling to marshal the votes. “They’re calling the hardnosed people… who have put out firm statements saying no,” he said. “They wouldn’t be doing that […]
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
