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Healthcare debate's next hurdle: abortion (Obama and Pelosi want taxpayer funded abortions)
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| 7/27/2009
| James Oliphant
Posted on 07/27/2009 7:44:10 PM PDT by tobyhill
Reporting from Washington -- With House leaders struggling to reach agreement on healthcare legislation, aiming toward a possible vote later this week, a new hurdle has emerged: abortion.
Some conservative Democrats are threatening to pull their support from the massive healthcare bill unless their concerns over potential federal funding of abortion procedures are met. They fear that the Obama administration will take advantage of an expanded government role in healthcare to increase the availability of abortions nationwide.
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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abortion; plannedmurderhood
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posted on
07/27/2009 7:44:10 PM PDT
by
tobyhill
To: tobyhill
Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood (actually it’s Planned Murderhood), would be salivating from her grave.
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posted on
07/27/2009 7:45:27 PM PDT
by
myknowledge
(F-22 Raptor: World's Largest Distributor of Sukhoi parts!)
To: myknowledge
All the Tiller the Baby Killers would work OT just to get more of the taxpayer’s money.
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posted on
07/27/2009 7:49:23 PM PDT
by
tobyhill
(The Communist are here)
To: tobyhill
The 52 Blue Dogs said no way they vote for taxpayer funded abortions.
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posted on
07/27/2009 7:50:54 PM PDT
by
scooby321
To: myknowledge
The evil side of me says, "OK, let them murder all their children", and the right side of me says, I don't want to pay for it and it's still murder.
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posted on
07/27/2009 7:54:01 PM PDT
by
altair
(When will the "major" parties nominate someone with at least a room temperature IQ?)
To: scooby321
but they didn’t say they wouldn’t vote to make abortion more available and forced payment through private insurance.
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posted on
07/27/2009 7:54:25 PM PDT
by
tobyhill
(The Communist are here)
To: altair; tobyhill
For us, we would say out loud that abortion is murder.
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posted on
07/27/2009 7:57:20 PM PDT
by
myknowledge
(F-22 Raptor: World's Largest Distributor of Sukhoi parts!)
To: tobyhill
This could be what kills ObamaCare. If the abortion funding remains, the Blue Dogs will balk. If it's removed*, many of the Liberals will balk. In either case, there won't be a majority for passage.
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*This would include an express provision saying no such funding could be given.
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posted on
07/27/2009 8:02:09 PM PDT
by
Repeal 16-17
(Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
To: tobyhill
The public wants taxpayer funded jail time for Obama and Pelosi for running the biggest scam on Americans ever.
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posted on
07/27/2009 8:35:41 PM PDT
by
freekitty
(Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
To: tobyhill
This is the radical Left’s Murder Inc.
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posted on
07/28/2009 12:54:33 AM PDT
by
M. Espinola
(Freedom is not 'free'.)
To: tobyhill; Allegra; big'ol_freeper; Lil'freeper; TrueKnightGalahad; blackie; Larry Lucido; ...
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posted on
07/28/2009 6:14:11 AM PDT
by
Bender2
("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
To: Bender2
The Federal government is an absolute disaster!!
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posted on
07/28/2009 11:28:04 AM PDT
by
blackie
(Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
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