UPDATE, 12/9, 8:35a: According to a House source: The omnibus appropriations bill was considered by a House-Senate Conference [last] night and according to reports (text is not yet available for review), the Mexico City Policy and federal employee provisions were fixed and are no longer a pro-life problem in the bill. But, the hostile DC […]

54-45, and tabling means the amendment has been set aside and has effectively failed. Since this was a vote to table rather than a vote on passage, the pro-life vote was NAY. The vote breakdown…

UPDATE, 8:25a: The Politico article below indicated a vote may come as early as today on a Nelson-Hatch pro-life amendment to the Senate healthcare bill. However, a reliable Senate source wrote this morning, “Such an amendment has yet to even be filed and no agreements have been reached regarding that issue.” Stay tuned. 7:20a:This is […]

by plans to offer an amendment to Senator Reid’s health care reform legislation (

In the wake of the Senate’s vote yesterday to move forward with debate on Majority Leader Harry Reid’s healthcare bill and all its baggage, National Right to Life’s Doug Johnson issued a hostile, ready-to-rumble response, and I gotta say I love it…. National Right to Life to Obama and Reid: You wanted debate?Now you’ll get […]

In an article entitled, “Bishops raising holy hell on abortion,” the Washington Post, reporting today on the opening of the semiannual meeting of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, quoted its leader, Cardinal Francis George, as stating, “To limit our teaching or governing to what the state is not interested in would be to betray […]

Based on the news below, Matt Lewis asked on Wall Street Journal, this afternoon: Sen. Blanche Lincoln, a centrist Democrat from AR, said Saturday she would vote to move forward with debate on health-care legislation, giving Democrats what appeared to be the 60 votes needed to bring the sweeping bill to the Senate floor for […]

Two points to pull from this morning’s