Obama: 'This is a Health Care Bill, Not an Abortion Bill'

ABCNews.com ^ | 11/09/09 | Jake Tapper

[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."

[Soothesayer9]

Obama wasn’t born..he was constructed.

After he was hatched of course.

[Gene Eric]

>> 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.

The Republicans should have abstained or voted no. That would have been courageous.

[SunkenCiv]

• Pro-Life Movement Must Unify After Strategy Difference on Stupak Abortion Amdt
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"War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength."

[bigheadfred]

"I says black is really white. The moon is just the sun at night."

[Nachum]

The list, ping

[highlander_UW]

"I laid out a very simple principle, which is this is a health care bill, not an abortion bill," Obama said.

Proof that Obama is a liar that even a liberal could understand.

[listenhillary]

From http://www.huffingtonpost.com/m.s.-bellows/coughing-up-stupaks-morni_b_351515.html

Budget reconciliation isn’t subject to the filibuster: only a bare majority in each house is needed to pass a reconciled bill. And while reconciliation can only be used to effect budgetary changes, not to change details of federally-administered insurance coverage, that’s actually a plus, because it would allow liberals to pass a poison pill of their own:—> revocation of the Hyde Amendment and full federal funding of all abortions.<—

Few people actually want the federal government to go that far — but, in reconciliation, it could be done; and once a provision that odious was made law, conservatives would have no choice but to make concessions to dial things back to a reasonable compromise — concessions like removing the odious Stupak amendment in 2011, two full years before most reforms are even scheduled to go into effect.