December 4, 2009
Could abortion kill the health care bill?
This might not be as bad as it sounds:
An amendment restricting abortions does not appear to have enough support to be attached to the Senate healthcare bill.
Senate Republican Whip Jon Kyl (Ariz.) said he expected that all but a few Republicans would support the Sen. Ben Nelson’s (D-Neb) amendment, which would restrict access to abortions for women who receive federal subsidies.
But the amendment is likely to be subject to the Senate’s 60-vote threshold, and Kyl does not expect 20 votes on the other side to back the controversial change.
“Most Republicans will but I don’t think that will be enough to carry it through, it’s a 60-vote margin,” Kyl told The Hill Thursday afternoon.
Republicans control only 40 seats, which means Nelson would have to pick up the support of at least 19 Democrats (or 18 plus one of two independents), an unlikely scenario given strong opposition from the Democratic base.
Liberal Democrats were confident the measure, based on an amendment Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) succeeded in adding to the House bill, would not pass the upper chamber.
I’ve been thinking about this whole abortion issue, a lot. I don’t know how our constitutional lawyer president somehow doesn’t get that the Constitution doesn’t grant him the right or authority to provide health care for the uninsured masses using my money and that it, certainly, doesn’t give him the authority to take my money to pay for some poor slut to take the life of her unborn child, but let’s try to move forward.
I’ve been thinking about this in a purely political way. If there is no restriction on the use of federal funding to finance abortion that might just tip the scales to the point that makes the bill unacceptable to vote for. If you trust public opinion polls, which for the most part I don’t, the country is trending more “pro-life” for the first time in decades. If that is true, then it will probably be unacceptable to most Americans if our elected officials vote to steal from them to finance abortions. Not that these tyrants seem to care what the people want, but maybe that will tip it and convince these morons to vote against the bill. Could the abortion issue kill this so-called reform?
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