pro-life democrats look to abort healthcare reform

From ABC News March 4:

Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., today said he and 11 other House members will not vote for the health care bill unless it includes more stringent language to prevent federal funding from going toward abortion services.

Some Dems want to remove public funding for abortions from Obama's proposal."We're not going to vote for this bill with that kind of language," Stupak said on "Good Morning America" today, referring to the Senate health care bill, which includes less restrictive language than what the Democratic lawmaker proposed in the House.

Stupak said he is willing to take the criticism that will be hurled at him if he blocks the bill because of the abortion language, but that he won't back down on his principles.

"I want to see health care pass. I agree... people are being priced out of the market. We must have health care but, boy, there are some principles and beliefs that some of us are not going to pass," he said. "We're prepared to take the responsibility. I mean, I've been catching it ever since last fall. Let's face it, I want to see health care. But we're not going to bypass some principles and beliefs that we feel strongly about."

The ongoing abortion debate threatens to stall the health care bill and reflects the deep divide among Democrats.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (a Catholic, by the way) is repeating a line from last year that abortion funding is not in the latest version of Obama's overhaul of the medical care system. The press at the time believed healthcare reform's pro-choice supporters but later had to backtrack and admit that abortion funding was in fact there.

It doesn't matter if abortion funding is or is not in the bill, because pro-lifers do not trust this president any farther than he can blow smoke. He could sneeze on their shirts and they wouldn't believe the boogers. They know he is a huge fan of Planned Parenthood and its mission of making "every child a wanted child," not by conforming human hearts to charitably accept the gift of life but by subjecting inconvenient children to barbaric deaths that scar their mothers for life.

Remember the Freedom of Choice Act?