Pro-Abortion Lawmakers Shower Praise on Senate Bill's Phony Abortion Compromise

"For that one reason among many, the United States will suffer unless there is placed into your government a group that fears the Lord if they cannot love the Lord. They will fear Him and find measures to stop the slaughter of the unborn." - Our Lady of the Roses, April 14, 1984

LifeSiteNews.com reported on November 19, 2009:

The phony compromise language unveiled in the Senate health care bill Wednesday night has already won high praise from pro-abortion lawmakers on Capitol Hill; yet, it has not fared as well under the scrutiny of the National Right to Life Committee, who slammed the bill's abortion funding as "completely unacceptable."

The Senate language closely reflects the "Capps amendment" from an earlier version of the House bill, which had been advanced by the pro-abortion Rep. Lois Capps (D-CA) as a false compromise measure on abortion instead of the pro-life Stupak/Pitts amendment. (The Senate bill can be viewed here.)

National Right to Life Committee legislative Director Douglas Johnson said it was regrettable, but predictable that Reid would abandon the Stupak/Pitts amendment for the "hollow" language.

"Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nv.) has rejected the bipartisan Stupak-Pitts Amendment and has substituted completely unacceptable language that would result in coverage of abortion on demand in two big new federal government programs," said Johnson.

"Reid seeks to cover elective abortions in two big new federal health programs, but tries to conceal that unpopular reality with layers of contrived definitions and hollow bookkeeping requirements."

The Senate bill explicitly authorizes the federal Secretary of Health and Human services to require coverage of any and all abortions through a government-funded health insurance option. This means government-appropriated funds would go to elective abortions, violating Hyde-amendment policy. The bill also allows taxpayer subsidies to help purchase plans that cover elective abortions.

The Stupak amendment, on the other hand, fully restored Hyde-amendment restrictions on federal funding for elective abortion in the House bill. Under that amendment, the government-run insurance option would not fund elective abortions, and recipients of taxpayer insurance subsidies would purchase elective abortion coverage with private money.

Major pro-life organizations, including the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), have consistently stated that only the Stupak language acceptably restores the ban on federal abortion funding. Earlier this month, the USCCB and the NRLC jointly tore apart another House "compromise" attempt that also failed to uphold the ban.

Some pro-abortion Senators have already exalted Reid's abortion language, claiming that it accurately reflects the Hyde amendment.

"Senator Reid did an excellent job of crafting language that maintains the decades long compromise of no federal funds for abortion," gushed Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA). Boxer has a consistently 100% pro-abortion rating from NARAL.

Late Wednedsay, Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad, who also votes largely pro-abortion, claimed to reporters that Reid's bill "extends the Hyde amendment to these programs so the status quo is maintained." Rep. Capps, another 100% NARAL-approved legislator and author of the House's phony compromise, praised Reid's language and noted that it "closely mirrors my language" in the original House bill.

The same legislators had lambasted the Stupak language as "illogical, discriminatory, and unnecessary" (Capps) and a "very radical amendment which would really tear apart compromise" (Boxer).

By claiming to uphold the Hyde amendment, pro-abortion lawmakers could be hoping to attract the pro-life majority opinion regarding the bill's funding: 61% of respondents in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Wednesday opposed the use of federal funds for elective abortion, with only 37% in favor.

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Stupak to White House: Strip Pro-Life Amendment to Health Bill's Peril

LifeSiteNews.com reported on November 17, 2009:

The author of an amendment to the health-care bill that bans the use of federal funds for elective abortion says that the White House would only imperil the bill's passage, if it succeeds in stripping the amendment.

"They're not going to take it out. If they do, health care will not move forward," Michigan Democratic Rep. Bart Stupak told Fox News this week. "We won fair and square."

White House Senior Advisor David Axelrod had told CNN on Sunday that President Obama was working with Congress to "adjust" the bill's abortion language. Both Obama and Axelrod have indicated agreement with the claim by leading pro-abortion lobbyists that the Stupak language amounts to an encroachment on women's abortion insurance coverage.

Stupak blasted Axelrod, saying the White House advisor "doesn't really know what he's talking about" and that if the will of the majority were not respected, Pelosi stood to lose between ten to fifteen more votes when the bill comes before the House for final passage.

"You're not going to summarily start dismissing amendments which the majority of the House of Representatives wanted because some person, David Axelrod or someone, doesn't like it," continued the Michigan Democrat.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had unexpectedly allowed a floor vote on the Stupak amendment in a strategic move earlier this month, subsequently winning the support of several moderate and pro-life Democrat votes. Rep. Stupak and his cadre of pro-life Democrats were essential to the 220-215 vote that passed the bill, only after the Pitts-Stupak amendment was approved 240-194.

The amendment restores long-standing federal policy against the use of government-appropriated funds for abortions, except in cases of rape, incest, or when the life of the mother is deemed at stake, mirroring the Hyde amendment.

Specifically, Pitts-Stupak prohibits the public insurance option from paying for abortions except in the above-mentioned cases, and this ban applies also to private insurance companies, which participate in the health insurance exchange and receive federal dollars.

Capitol Hill lawmakers disagree on how the Stupak amendment or other "compromise" attempts at pro-life language could impact the future of the bill, both in the Senate and when the House considers a final version.

Pro-abortion Rep. Dianna DeGette (D-Colo.), who leads a group of Democrats dedicated to killing a pro-life health bill, disagreed that Stupak would have enough votes to take down the measure if a later version lacked his amendment.

"I think he won't have the votes when people explain to those members what exactly the Stupak amendment does," DeGette said on a Tuesday appearance on ABC News's "Top Line" webcast.

Rep. DeGette and Rep. Louise M. Slaughter (D-N.Y.), co-chairwomen of the Congressional Pro-Choice Caucus, on Monday released a letter signed by over 40 Representatives, asserting they would vote against the final version of health-care reform if Pitts-Stupak were retained.

In the Senate, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) suggested in a Monday night appearance on MSNBC that there would not be enough pro-life votes in the Senate to force the inclusion of similar strong pro-life language in that chamber's bill.

However the loss of three votes in the House - let alone ten - would be the kiss of death for the final version of health-care reform that must be approved by both chambers of Congress - making it appear for the moment that Pelosi's short-term strategic decision to permit a vote on the Pitts-Stupak amendment in the first place may have ultimately secured the bill's final demise.

"The Eternal Father command that you stop these murders at once! You will not destroy the lives of the unborn. Human life is sacred in the eyes of your God. No man has the right to destroy a life. The Father, He sends this life to you, and only He will decide when it will return back to the Kingdom.
"Do not, My children, be deceived by the words of the evil ones about you who cry to you of no space left for man. There is space, for My Father has a plan for every life He sends." - Our Lady of the Roses, August 5, 1971

THE UNITED STATES SHALL FALL
"How can a great country like the United States fall, you say, My child? You ask Me in your heart. I read your heart. I will tell you why. Because they have given themselves over to satan. When a country has lost its morality and seeks the pleasures of the flesh, giving over, themselves over, to all manner of abominations, like homosexuality, and condoning this up the highest courts of the land, then that country shall fall." - Our Lady of the Roses, November 1, 1985

DOCTORS
"Doctors now are profaning their profession, those who have given themselves over to destroying human life in abortions." - Jesus, June 6, 1987

FOULEST OF DEEDS
"Our hearts are torn because of the wanton murder of the young by evil man. Abortion, My children, is murder, the most foulest of deeds, that is punishable by death! And what is worse than death of the soul?
"I say unto you, as your Mother, that any man or woman who performs or takes part of this abomination of the murder of the unborn shall be given a heavy penance upon earth, or if this penance is not given upon earth, that person found guilty in the eyes of his God shall suffer eternal damnation in the fires of hell." - Our Lady, December 28, 1976

DESTROYED
"All who become part of or condone abortion, the murder of the young, shall be destroyed!" - Jesus, June 2, 1979

HUMAN LIFE IS SACRED
"The Eternal Father command that you stop these murders at once! You will not destroy the lives of the unborn. Human life is sacred in the eyes of your God. No man has the right to destroy a life. The Father, He sends this life to you, and only He will decide when it will return back to the Kingdom.
"Do not, My children, be deceived by the words of the evil ones about you who cry to you of no space left for man. There is space, for My Father has a plan for every life He sends." - Our Lady, August 5, 1971

WILL NEVER BE CONDONED
"You will remember, My children and My child, to guard the young. Your clergy have fallen into darkness. Abortion will never be condoned. But We must have others who fervently will go forward and bring out to the minds of those who have actually seduced the country and the children--bring them the knowledge of Heaven, hell and purgatory. Then they will not have free license to sin." - Our Lady, May 28, 1983

GOVERNMENT
"For that one reason among many, the United States will suffer unless there is placed into your government a group that fears the Lord if they cannot love the Lord. They will fear Him and find measures to stop the slaughter of the unborn." - Our Lady, April 14, 1984

NUNS
"That is what makes My heart ache, My child. That is one of the reasons Theresa is crying constantly when she looks into the convents and sees what is going on. Many now believe in abortion, the murders of the children; and many have committed this act upon themselves." - Jesus, October 1, 1988

SIXTY MILLION
"I say this for this reason: the Eternal Father is much disturbed at the numbers of abortions being committed throughout your country and the world. These numbers go upwards to fifty to sixty million in one year throughout the world." - Our Lady, June 18, 1986

TREATED AS GARBAGE
"O My child, My tears fall upon you all when I see all of the innocent little babies being slaughtered . . . cast into garbage pails like nothing but dirt and scum. They are living human beings! And all murderers shall get their just recompense." - Our Lady, March 18, 1983

HOLY SPIRIT
"At the time of conception, the Holy Spirit makes the child, and the breath of the Almighty gives it life." - Our Lady, June 18, 1991

LIMBO
"And what, My children, are We going to do with all the aborted babies? O My child, I know you feel as I do, for I can see the great distress on your face. What are We going to do, My child? Do you understand when they come to Us, they must go to Limbo? They are in Heaven, a happy place, but they cannot see God." - Our Lady, October 2, 1987

SORROWFULLY
"Sorrowfully, the penance that is to come upon the world for the murders of the unborn shall be a chastisement far greater in severity than man has ever witnessed in the past nor ever shall pass through again. Your world is plunging into a deep chasm of suffering and destruction." - Our Lady, May 20, 1978

OATH
"Your once loyal to the oath of a doctor, your once loyal doctors are now butchers! For money they kill the young!" - Our Lady, February 10, 1978

WOE TO THE WOMAN
"Know, My child, this simple lesson, that in these days of the latter times, women will seek to cast off their role as mother and a woman. Women will cast it off under the direction of satan, and murder her children. Woe to the woman who does not repent of this vile abomination! She has walked the road to eternal damnation and hell. Repent, O woman, or forever be lost!" - Our Lady, March 18, 1975

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