Stupak’s Abortion Deception

The Hyde Amendment right now restricts funding of abortion in any spending bill for Health and Human Services. Since this bill is not a spending bill for Health and Human Services, the Hyde Amendment does not automatically apply.

Stupak, through the amendment process, inserted Hyde language in the House bill. Then he voted for the bill.

The bill then went to the Senate, was changed and passed.

President Obama came up with a different plan and wanted a new vote in the Senate.

Both the Senate bill and Obama’s ‘bill’ provide for federal funding of abortion.

The bill Stupak is referring to right now provides grants to clinics that offer abortions.

It also requires a monthly premium of not less than a dollar per month for abortion coverage.

It refuses to clarify “preventative services” as abortion, leaving the ambiguity that will allow abortion.

Central to the bill is funding for FQHC’s or community health centers that provide abortions.

House Leader Nancy Pelosi insists there is no abortion funding in the bill.

Pelosi also insists that under reconciliation, abortion cannot be addressed because reconciliation is a budgeting process.(The Heritage Foundation)

However, we have a false choice. Stupak wants us to focus on abortion, instead of this monstrous power grab.

The people of the First District are self-sufficient rugged individualists.

This trick by Stupak cannot be allowed to continue to frame this debate.

Despite suggestions that Stupak is raising a fuss over abortion funding in the bill, his constituency is more heavily concerned with the bill itself. Not that the First District isn’t overwhelmingly Pro-life, it is, but Stupak is falsely emphasizing the importance of abortion wording in the bill.

The First District is more concerned with the bill itself and it’s constitutionality.(WSJ)

If there is any doubt that Stupak is not that firm on his assertions, watch this youtube clip. It was taken last year before Stupak was able to amend the House Bill, at a Cheboygan Town Hall.

Stupak: “Let’s say we get 217, and we lose, would I vote against health care? If I had the chance to vote my conscience on it, I probably would not. I probably would still vote for the Health Care Bill at the end of the day.”

Man: “Um, I guess it still bothers me that at the end of the day, yes you would have said your voice, but the one more voice would be that vote…even though I didn’t get what I wanted, I still am going to still vote in favor of tax-payer funded abortions.”

Stupak: “But, isn’t that the way our country works?”

Okay, can you see now? I have been watching Michigan become more interested in primary candidates and since they are afraid to seem like they are against Stupak’s abortion message, that they forget about the monstrous power grab!

Further in the clip:

Stupak: “I don’t want to see abortion in there, and I got to get a chance to vote on that somewhere along this process. But that doesn’t mean, and if I lose that vote, that doesn’t mean I vote against the whole bill.”

Man: “It doesn’t.”

Stupak: “No.”

(Boos)

Stupak goes on to reiterate for the third time.

I’m in the First District, and no matter what Stupak says, people here, in general DO NOT like unprincipled behavior in their representatives.

By the way, Stupak has a town hall in Tawas tonight. He doesn’t allow video or audio recording, I wonder why?