NY Times: Dems Banking on Later Squeezing Pro-Life Language Out of Bill in Committee
by Kathleen Gilbert for LifeSiteNews
WASHINGTON, D.C., November 7, 2009 - Pro-life leaders Saturday afternoon are hailing the House’s decision to allow a voting opportunity on pro-life, Hyde-amendment language in the health bill as a major victory. However, with some sources suggesting that Democrat leadership is banking on later squeezing the pro-life amendment out of the bill in committee, some leaders are warning that the bill – with a whole bundle of dangers besides the federal abortion funding – is still too much of a threat.
The New York Times reported this morning that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi decided to allow a vote on the amendment with the hopes that her pro-abortion colleagues would be assuaged by the possibility of "changes in the weeks ahead," particularly changes wrought when the Senate and House versions of the bill are reconciled. In the early hours of the morning Saturday, the speaker unexpectedly gave permission for the full House to vote on Democrat Rep. Bart Stupak’s amendment banning federal funding of abortion in the health bill.
Accordingly, pro-abortion Democrats are fuming about the likely-successful pro-life vote, but will temporarily acquiesce in order to move the massive bill ahead.
"There’s no way at the end of the day we’re going to support these kinds of further restrictions on abortion," Representative Jan Schakowsky, Democrat of Illinois, said Saturday morning on C-Span. "We’re going to strategize further about how we’re going to respond to this amendment. Get as many votes as we can against it. But at the end of the day we want to move the process along."
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