Posted on 11/09/2009 3:11:09 PM PST by OldDeckHand
President Obama said today that Congress needs to change abortion-related language in the health care bill passed by the House of Representatives this weekend that includes tougher restrictions on abortion funding but said there is more work to be done before a final piece of legislation gets to his desk.
"I laid out a very simple principle, which is this is a health care bill, not an abortion bill," Obama said. "And we're not looking to change what is the principle that has been in place for a very long time, which is federal dollars are not used to subsidize abortions.
Saying the bill cannot change the status quo, the President said "there are strong feelings on both sides" about an amendment passed on Saturday and added to the legislation, "and what that tells me is that there needs to be some more work before we get to the point where we're not changing the status quo."
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YOU LIE!
Let me correct zero:
It’s not a healthcare bill it is a US ecomonic suicide pill
Whomever is in power enforces the law. Even if they use Stupak to get the bill passed, they can just later say “it merely endorses the Hyde Amendment” and refuse to enforce it. I have always said, Stupak is a meaningless fig leaf, and the RTL were idiots to stop Shadegg from his brilliant plan to derail it.
LOL!!! ZERO didn’t get what he wanted with this House bill when Pelosi allowed the anti-abortion part to be included. Poor Obama! He spoke and looks like Pelosi didn’t follow orders but wanted it passed so bad she caved to the pro-lifers in the House and made the progressives mad.
Please pass the popcorn as the Dems go after each other.
This pile of crap has nothing to do with health care and everything to do with state control.
I have to read the whole article to figure out what Obama is trying to say. It sounds like a bunch of double-speak from this excerpt.
“I have to read the whole article to figure out what Obama is trying to say.”
Could you ‘splain it to me?
My handy-dandy Obama translator is not working too well.
They will just reword it and put it back in during conference.
Translation-if Abortion is a 'health issue' as the Left contends, why isn't it covered in the Health Bill?
By restricting abortion, the Left is conceding that Abortion is a moral issue, not a health one.
The Left will never concede that.
The Bill is DEAD.
> Whomever is in power enforces the law. Even if they use
> Stupak to get the bill passed, they can just later say it
> merely endorses the Hyde Amendment and refuse to enforce
> it. I have always said, Stupak is a meaningless fig leaf,
> and the RTL were idiots to stop Shadegg from his brilliant
> plan to derail it.
You are correct, and your post bears repeating.
All the stupid Stupak language does is provide cover for the DemonRATs from conservative districts to vote for this heinous, 2000 page boondoggle.
The entire bill is an abortion.
And the bill for the bill is unspeakably expensive in social and monetary cost, but worst of all, it is a destroyer of the few liberties we have left.
he must really want this to pass if he’s telling his pro-abort pals to chill.
No, it’s a CONTROL THE PROLETARIAT bill.
No, it’s a CONTROL THE PROLETARIAT bill.
The man is pushing abortion and has every intention of making us all pay for killing our yet to be born American citizens!
Apparently obama would.....
Agreed. Just more from useful idiots; only when these neo-Leninists start dying in numbers within public view will their tune change. This is not about healthcare; its all about taxation, oppression and un-American! Yet, where are those that are to standup for freedom; for we know it will not be the political class, as Liberalism is a Mental Disorder.
Methinks the lady doth protest too much...ok, the BO protest too much.
SUPPORT A NATIONAL STRIKE
Tea Parties and Town Hall Meetings have been ignored . We need to move this to another level . Boycotts , Sit Ins , civil disorder .
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