Dems Reject Legislation That Would Ban Abortion Funding In Nationalized Health Care Bill
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, December 8, 2009, 6:34 PM
Democrats rejected legislation that would have banned federal support for abortions in their nationalized health care bill. That means the democratic health care legislation will result in the biggest expansion of taxpayer-funding of abortions since Roe v. Wade.
The Hill reported:
Senators voted Tuesday afternoon to set aside a healthcare amendment that would have curbed federal support for abortion coverage.
Senators voted to table a measure from Sens. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) and Orrin Hatch (R-Pa.) that would have banned the government from offering insurance plans in a national healthcare exchange that cover abortion.
The amendment, which needed 60 votes to pass and was not expected to be adopted, was tabled in a 54-45 vote.
The provision, which mirrored restrictions in the House’s healthcare bill authored by Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Neb.), had been offered in part to win over Nelson, who’d previously warned he’d join a filibuster of the healthcare bill if it didn’t contain sufficient protections against federal support for abortion.
Democrats lost seven of their own members on the measure — Sens. Byron Dorgan (N.D.), Kent Conrad (N.D.), Evan Bayh (Ind.), Ben Nelson (Neb.), Ted Kaufmann (Del.), Robert Casey (Pa.), and Mark Pryor (Ark.) — while two Maine’s two Republicans, Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, supported the tabling.
The tabling represents a victory for abortion-rights supporters who had worried that the amendment’s restrictions on abortion funding would go beyond what had previously been established by the Hyde amendment.
More… The National Right to Life Movement urged the defeat of the democrat’s health care boondoggle after the vote today.
UPDATE: Of course, Claire McCaskill said she wouldn’t vote for a bill that funded abortion… But today she voted with dems against the Nelson legislation.
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enoxo commented:
What they are doing is illegal, and unconstitutional.
The Hyde Amendment is law. If they don’t like it, they need to repeal the Hyde Amendment. Simply ignoring it and pretending it doesn’t exist is illegal and unconstitutional.
non_dhimmie commented:
Do Muslims support abortions?
Espresso Logic - The 6th Sense commented:
Claire Mc will rot in hell.
Scotty Starnes commented:
Does that mean if this unconstitutional legislation passes the House and Senate, Obama won’t sign it? After all, he promised “his” bill would not fund abortions. Of course, Obama is totally trustworthy with his promises [major sarcasm]
Scrapiron commented:
Not unlike my Rep Richie Rick Boucher. Voted against the house medical care scam but also voted against every amendment to change it. The bad part is the ads they ran for days bragging about his no vote and never mentioning his support for it by voting against any amendment. Suckers,aka democrats, all over the area bought into the scam as always.
Scrapiron commented:
#3, they don’t believe in abortions because they don’t have to. If a sister/daughter, or for a fact any woman gets pg out of wedlock they simply stone them to death. No abortion required.
John commented:
Warning to Senators: Kill the Healthcare Bill or the Healthcare Bill will kill you electorally. No to taxpayer funded mass murder of the unborn. No to healthcare rationing for the old. No to Socialism in medicine.
Dell commented:
What the Dems SAY, to win over fence-sitting senators and representatives, and what they actually intend to do (and ultimately DO) are two entirely different things.
The bill that winds up on O Bombers desk for signing WILL very definitely allow for federal funds to kill unborn children…It’s the Democrat’s way!
Neoavatara commented:
This should be easy to solve. Even Obama says (supposedly) that he agrees with the Hyde amendment. But the far left wants this to be a subsidized right…and that is the issue. We will now see if Moderate Dems like Nelson were honest about their pro-life stance, or simply pandering.
http://neoavatara.com/blog/?p=8916
Chip Bennett commented:
Two points:
1) Killing Nelson-Hatch kills the bill in the Senate, since it will mean that Reid has now lost both Lieberman and Nelson, with Snowe showing no signs of considering a defection. That means Reid will not have the votes to invoke cloture.
Buh-bye, ObamaCare.
2) Psst, Claire the Lib: we’re watching. We remember. You will not enjoy 2012. Better make the most of your last 3 years as a US Senator.
ahem commented:
I can’t help wondering why the Dems do not give a damn about what the public thinks. It’s as if they’re not expecting to have to pay at the polls.
We must have had our last free election.
non_dhimmie commented:
ACORN/SEIU….Soros bought every Sec. of State.
As he stated “it is not the votes, it is who counts them”
Plus o is handing out big jobs to all that will lose their seats….it is win win for the communists
Mike in VA commented:
#13, yes, the Dems are planning on there being no polls, or that they will have control of them.
Solaratov commented:
enoxo
December 8th, 2009 | 6:54 pm | #2
What they are doing is illegal, and unconstitutional.
The Hyde Amendment is law. If they don’t like it, they need to repeal the Hyde Amendment. Simply ignoring it and pretending it doesn’t exist is illegal and unconstitutional.
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If I’m not mistaken, the Hyde Amdmt. has to be reauthorized every year.
All they have to do is not schedule it for a reauthorization vote until it’s too late.
Then, it lapses and there are NO restrictions on government-paid abortions.
No one even has to vote against the Hyde reauthorization. It just “goes away”.
Anonymous commented:
Good! I am pro-life, but am pragmatic enough to agree with a woman caller on Rush’s program today who suggested that unlike the Stupak Amendment in the House, this may be the nail in the coffin insofar as moderate Dems are concerned.
One can only hope…pray..(is that still allowed?)
Anonymous commented:
edit should read “much like” the Stupak Amendment
Robert commented:
“with Snowe showing no signs of considering a defection.”
She voted to let this amendment be tabled. She and her Maine colleague cannot be trusted.
Blacque Jacques Shellacque commented:
Psst, Claire the Lib: we’re watching. We remember. You will not enjoy 2012. Better make the most of your last 3 years as a US Senator.
Music to my ears.
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