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I seldom post a vanity, but with the left now trying to put obamacare at the feet of the GOP, I thought this image might help dispel such rumors, if, Freepers were to copy it and make it "viral" in your email to everyone you know.

There was plenty of hoopla in the East Room of the White House on Tuesday when President Obama signed his health care bill into law. But when Mr. Obama signs an executive order that secured the votes of anti-abortion Democrats, he will do so in private. The White House announced Tuesday evening that Mr. Obama would sign the order — which it said reaffirms the health bill’s “consistency with longstanding restrictions on the use of federal funds for abortion” — in the Oval Office on Wednesday afternoon. The order, negotiated Sunday afternoon as the House was entering the final stages...

"When 94 percent of Catholic House Democrats vote to kill children with your tax dollars .. then something has gone horribly wrong" --Michael Voris.

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards has issued a statement declaring victory after the Senate health care bill's passage Sunday, noting that the abortion-related executive order Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) agreed to in exchange for pro-life Democrats' votes was merely a "symbolic gesture." Stupak had argued after the vote that, contrary to the affirmations of virtually every top pro-life organization in the U.S., Obama's promised executive order "is worth more than the paper it is written on." "The only option you had was leave the Senate language or strengthen it to prevent abortions under an...

I have had some time to recover from what occurred on Sunday evening, but I still feel sick to my stomach. I always knew there was a chance that Bart Stupak would change his vote for some reason other than securing his amendment, but I honestly thought he would hold his ground and not waver in his defense of unborn children. Senator Nelson's betrayal last year was very upsetting, but this... this is just so painful. The trouble is, we citizens have no choice but to believe in our politicians. We must risk trusting them to be true to their...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Planned Parenthood called the pro-abortion health care bill the House approved late Sunday night a victory and applauded the financial windfall is expected to reap as a result. The abortion business also dismissed the executive order President Barack Obama promised Congressman Bart Stupak as harmless. “For more than a year, Planned Parenthood has worked tirelessly for a health care" bill, its president Cecile Richards said in a statement today. "It's a huge victory for women's health, but our work isn't over yet."With passage of the legislation, "monumental progress was made toward achieving these goals."Richard dismissed the...

WASHINGTON -- A last-minute compromise yesterday that swung a half-dozen anti-abortion Democrats behind President Obama's health-care bill -- virtually ensuring its passage -- failed to placate outside activists on either side of the issue, and drew derision from Republicans. Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.), leader of the anti-abortion bloc, said he was satisfied with an executive order issued by Obama affirming prohibitions in current law and in the health legislation against taxpayer money going to abortions. "Make no doubt about it. There will be no public funds for abortion," Stupak said in announcing the agreement yesterday ahead of a vote on...

Congressman Sensenbrenner on the House floor blasting the Executive Order from President Obama, and telling Stupak "I'm sorry, but the gentleman from Michigan has misstated the law" (Video)

The Washington Post's Ezra Klein has some doubts about those who oppose abortion on moral, religious or ethical grounds. Apparently to him, it's just an anti-class issue in which the poor are locked out of abortion. Klein appeared on MSNBC's March 21 special coverage of the House's debate about health care reform which was prelude to the body's final vote on the legislation. According to Klein, despite the language in this bill with so-called "family planning" provisions and its questions about a presidential executive order restricting them, abortions will actually go down with ObamaCare. ...more (w/video)...

President Obama Breaks Faith with Women Statement of NOW President Terry O'Neill March 21, 2010 The National Organization for Women is incensed that President Barack Obama agreed today to issue an executive order designed to appease a handful of anti-choice Democrats who have held up health care reform in an effort to restrict women's access to abortion. Through this order, the president has announced he will lend the weight of his office and the entire executive branch to the anti-abortion measures included in the Senate bill, which the House is now prepared to pass. President Obama campaigned as a pro-choice...

Abortion Pact Paves Way for Health Bill House Votes to Begin Debate on $940 Billion Health-Care Overhaul JANET ADAMY And GREG HITT WASHINGTON -- The U.S. House voted Sunday to allow debate to begin on a sweeping $940 billion health-care measure, just hours after an agreement was reached on abortion language that is expected to result in the bill's passage. In a procedural vote that was a key test for whether the bill will pass, the House voted 224-206 to approve the "rule" on the health-care bill's debate. A final vote on the bill likely will come late Sunday night....

Democratic Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz admits an executive order can't change law.

Earlier today Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., explained the consequences of Rep. Bart Stupak’s, D-Mich., decision to support health care reform — even with President Barack Obama’s so-called executive order that will restrict federal abortion funding. Bachmann said at a press conference earlier on March 21 this health care reform legislation “will for the first time in the history of our nation create federally funded abortion.” She also cited the Guttmacher Institute and said abortions will in crease 30 percent under ObamaCare. ...more (w/video)...

Michigan Rep. Bart Stupak, a leader of House Democrats opposed to abortion rights, announced Sunday that he had reached a deal with the White House that will allow him to back the health care reform bill. He also said the deal will give Democratic leaders more than enough votes to pass the bill. "We're well past" the 216 votes needed for passage, Stupak said. "This bill is going to go through." President Barack Obama will issue an executive order "after the passage of the health insurance reform law that will reaffirm its consistency with long-standing restrictions on the use of...

Per Fox legal analyst -- Obozo's executive order to get Stupak's vote unlawful; anything added to this vote changes the Senate bill and thus invalidates today's House vote.

Executive Order Hijinks [Andy McCarthy] I know we tire of the hypocrisy, but I really think this is remarkable. We spent the eight years through January 19, 2009, listening to Democrats complain that President Bush had purportedly caused a constitutional crisis by issuing signing statements when he signed bills into law. Democrats and Arlen Specter (now a Democrat) complained that these unenforceable, non-binding expressions of the executive's interpretation of the laws Bush was signing were a usurpation Congress's power to enact legislation. But now Democrats are going to abide not a mere signing statement but an executive order that purports...

The Order [Yuval Levin] Upon first hearing there was talk of an executive order yesterday, I wondered how the administration’s lawyers thought such an order could go beyond the letter of the law in restricting abortion funding. This was a question the Bush administration examined quite extensively on several occasions, and the lawyers involved always agreed that the legal precedents from the time between the Roe decision and passage of the Hyde amendment, as well as some after the Hyde amendment, are extremely clear in stating that federal funds cannot be denied to the provision of abortion except by explicit...

Today, the President announced that he will be issuing an executive order after the passage of the health insurance reform law that will reaffirm its consistency with longstanding restrictions on the use of federal funds for abortion. While the legislation as written maintains current law, the executive order provides additional safeguards to ensure that the status quo is upheld and enforced, and that the health care legislation's restrictions against the public funding of abortions cannot be circumvented. The President has said from the start that this health insurance reform should not be the forum to upset longstanding precedent. The health...

The White House just released this statement: STATEMENT FROM COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR DAN PFEIFFER Today, the President announced that he will be issuing an executive order after the passage of the health insurance reform law that will reaffirm its consistency with longstanding restrictions on the use of federal funds for abortion. While the legislation as written maintains current law, the executive order provides additional safeguards to ensure that the status quo is upheld and enforced, and that the health care legislation’s restrictions against the public funding of abortions cannot be circumvented. The President has said from the start that this health...

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