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Obama: 'This is a Health Care Bill, Not an Abortion Bill'
ABCNews.com ^ | 11/09/09 | Jake Tapper

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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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2010; healthcare; healthcontrol; liars; obamacare; senate
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If you pay for abortions, then it's an abortion bill - and we should all do everything we can to abort it, immediately.
1 posted on 11/09/2009 3:11:10 PM PST by OldDeckHand
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To: OldDeckHand

YOU LIE!


2 posted on 11/09/2009 3:12:26 PM PST by US Navy Vet
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To: OldDeckHand

Let me correct zero:

It’s not a healthcare bill it is a US ecomonic suicide pill


3 posted on 11/09/2009 3:14:09 PM PST by fujimoh
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To: OldDeckHand

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.


4 posted on 11/09/2009 3:14:23 PM PST by montag813 (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. -George Orwell)
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To: OldDeckHand

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.


5 posted on 11/09/2009 3:14:59 PM PST by PhiKapMom (Mary Fallin - OK Gov/Coburn - Senate 2010 ! Take Back the House/Senate! Stop ZERO!)
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To: OldDeckHand

This pile of crap has nothing to do with health care and everything to do with state control.


6 posted on 11/09/2009 3:15:21 PM PST by Marathoner (At least Hitler was a corporal.)
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To: OldDeckHand

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.


7 posted on 11/09/2009 3:15:21 PM PST by Always Right
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“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.


8 posted on 11/09/2009 3:18:01 PM PST by webstersII
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To: OldDeckHand

They will just reword it and put it back in during conference.


9 posted on 11/09/2009 3:19:14 PM PST by cranked
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To: webstersII
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.

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.

10 posted on 11/09/2009 3:21:32 PM PST by fortheDeclaration ("Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people".-John Adams)
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To: montag813

> 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.


11 posted on 11/09/2009 3:22:08 PM PST by Westbrook (Having more children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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he must really want this to pass if he’s telling his pro-abort pals to chill.


12 posted on 11/09/2009 3:31:56 PM PST by MNDude (The Republican Congress Economy--1995-2007)
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To: OldDeckHand
DON'T BELEIVE A WORD THAT COMES OUT OF HIS PIE HOLE. He hogs the TV, cable channels, and radio every day to spin a new or rehashed lie to the American people. The RATS will do and say anything to get this bill on his desk before the end of the year - the man-child wanted it before Thanksgiving.
13 posted on 11/09/2009 3:38:30 PM PST by Cheerio (Barack Hussein 0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: OldDeckHand

No, it’s a CONTROL THE PROLETARIAT bill.


14 posted on 11/09/2009 3:41:58 PM PST by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: OldDeckHand

No, it’s a CONTROL THE PROLETARIAT bill.


15 posted on 11/09/2009 3:41:58 PM PST by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: OldDeckHand
"I don't think there's any denying the fact that people are worried out there," he said. "And, you know, what I've said to fellow Democrats is let's get the job done on the health care bill that is so important to this country's long-term wellbeing, we can look back at the end of this year and I think we'll be able to legitimately say that we have had the most productive legislative session at least since 1965" --Barack Obama.

Attention all surgeons ... calling all surgeons ... we're looking for the brain of Barack Obama ... who took it and hid it ... we need it back ... he's attempting to run a country on nothing but marbles ...
16 posted on 11/09/2009 3:43:36 PM PST by mlizzy ("Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person" --Mother Teresa of Calcutta.)
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To: OldDeckHand
That lying lizard talks in circles because he's fool enough to think we're all too dumb to know what's going on.

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.....

17 posted on 11/09/2009 3:44:48 PM PST by GloriaJane (http://www.last.fm/user/GloriaJane)
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To: OldDeckHand

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; it’s 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.”


18 posted on 11/09/2009 3:48:43 PM PST by ntmxx (I am not so sure about this misdirection!)
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To: OldDeckHand

Methinks the lady doth protest too much...ok, the BO protest too much.


19 posted on 11/09/2009 3:48:48 PM PST by small farm girl
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To: All

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 .


20 posted on 11/09/2009 3:50:07 PM PST by sonic109
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