” Bart Stupak wins a ban on federal funds for abortion “
‘Bart Stupak wins a *temporary* ban on federal funds for abortion’
[There - fixed it..]
Does anybody really believe that this amendment will survive in the final bill??
Don’t turn your back on ‘em for a second - keep up the pressure to kill the bill completely, and drive a stake through its black heart..
The bishops were fools to stake all their opposition on this one issue, first of all, because it was so obvious that all the Dems would do was put in a “temporary” ban on abortion to get the bill passed.
I would think that even the bishops wouldn’t be naive enough to trust the Dems, for whom abortion is a sacrament of initiation. They’re not going to let it go.
Also, there were many other valid Catholic objections to the whole program, which numerous bishops have stated, and tying the criticism just to abortion and then accepting a pure eye-wash ban was incredibly dumb.