Before I get to yesterday’s statement by pro-life Democrat Sen. Ben Nelson, from NE, a statement by GOP Sen. Jim Demint of SC…

by Wesley Smith notes a changed clause in Senator Reid’s health care bill could force insurance providers in states where assisted suicide is legal to include assisted suicide in their plans: If assisted suicide, or even euthanasia, are legally considered forms of “end of life care” in a particular state – as it is now […]

I’m not sure if this is a new feature, but I “Editorial: Justice for the unborn terror victim” ~ Washington Times… Francheska Velez would have been in Iraq, not Ft. Hood, were she not pregnant. [HT: Connie]…

UPDATE, 1:15p: “Axelrod signals Obama will try to strip abortion language from health care bill” ~ Fox News reporting on White House senior advisor David Axelrod’s appearance on CNN this morning. (“I believe that there are discussions ongoing to how to adjust it accordingly.”) “Dems risk losing Catholics over abortion” ~ Politico [HT for Fox […]

by Michael Steele has called for the removal of abortion coverage from their health insurance plan after Wendy Norris is now claiming money was another probable reason for the Catholic bishops’ support of the Stupak amendment. Despite the vast majority of abortions being performed in abortion clinics and not hospitals, Norris thinks the bishops wanted […]

I am increasingly wondering how Democrats, particularly Nancy Pelosi, are going to get themselves out of this jam. It is becoming clearer that while Nancy made an agreement with Catholic bishops to take abortion out of the healthcare bill, her liberal friends thought she intended to break that deal later….

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by Carlton Veazey from the Religious Coaltion for Reproductive Choice claims the Stupak amendment is “an encroachment on the separation of religion and state and an affront to a basic constitutional principle.”