He was a Democrat congressman in 2010 when Obamacare came up for a vote. His problem with Obamacare was that it forced companies to pay for abortions over their moral objections.
He got a promise from King Obama himself that the law wouldn't do that. Mr. Stupak was satisfied, and he voted for the "new" law, with those provisions. (I think the whole thing was a ploy to make people think that the law was "reasonable"--even conservative democrats were voting for it.)
Anyway, those provisions were made in the Obamacare law itself. Companies and religious institutions wouldn't have to pay for abortions and contraception.
Fast forward to 2014. Surprise, surprise, surprise! The Stupak provisions no longer apply.
Someone needs to research the law as it was passed, find the Stupak clauses, and and wave them in the Democrats' faces.
RE: He got a promise from King Obama himself that the law wouldn’t do that. Mr. Stupak was satisfied, and he voted for the “new” law, with those provisions.
And just like the good old: “If you like your healthcare, you can keep it.” and “The ACA pebalty is not a tax”, we know how good Obama’s word is.
The one wise person who saw through it all was Congressman Joe Wilson.
ONCE MORE WITH FEELING: “YOU LIE !!”
Same libs on Facebook were calling people paranoid for believing that OSama-Bin-Care would force these kinds of religious discrepancies.
Bart Stupak pretended to be pro-life, but voted pro-abortion. I saw an interview with him a few weeks ago where he defended his Obamacare vote even knowing now that it funds abortion. It just proves that there is no such thing as a pro-life Democrat. Joe Donnelly is another one.
A promise from Obama is as solid and lasting as a unicorn fart. Democrats have so many ways of lying and breaking promises that they never have to use the same method twice.
It seems that the answer to the question of how the law does what Obama promised it would not do lies in some Clintonion parsing.
From what I understand the Obamacare law itself does not explicitly require paid abortions. Nor does it specifically exclude them.
So in the strictest sense the Obama promise may have been kept. But the law does allow/require the HHS secretary to write the specific rules defining coverage details.
So it was a simple matter to bypass the Obama Promise by writing the morning-after pills and IUDs into the coverage details once the law was safely on the books.
We probably have a lot of Freepers who have more and better info than I have so maybe someone more knowledgeable can pitch in with a better answer.