Support for a Liberal who is Supporting a Conservative Ideal

Dear America,

Far be it for me to rush to the support of a liberal, but in this case I think I will. The reason is this one particular liberal has a conservative side to him in at least one issue. That issue is the issue of abortion. You guessed it. I am putting my support behind Representative Bart Stupak’s (D-MI) push to remove abortion funding from the health care bill.

Now, for those of you out there who actually listen to the lies that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) spews on this topic, let me say this. Read the bill yourself and do a little research and you will see what the truth is. According to her, the bill is “abortion neutral”. Now to be fully honest with you and fair to her, if you listen to the whole statement you will see that this is only a white lie. Basically, in her mind and what she would have you believe, since abortion is not directly mentioned within the bill, it therefore is neutral. But if you do your research as I have mentioned you will find that the bill in fact does support taxpayer funded abortion.

The truth of the matter is found in a not so well known piece of legislation (unless you are a politician) first called the Hyde Amendment. If you do your research you will read the history of this amendment and find that at one time Medicaid was paying for nearly 300,000 abortions a year. The Hyde Amendment (named for Congressman Henry Hyde (R-IL)) barred the government from paying for abortions with funds allocated from the appropriation bill for Health and Human Services. Since that time (1976) the Hyde Amendment has been in every piece of Health Care legislation in one form or another.

Now fast forward to today’s current version of the health care bill and you will see that this wording is not present. It was proposed as part of a Stupak-Pitts Amendment which was in the original House Bill (and consequently why it passed). However, when the Senate voted on the bill, no such language existed. So, now you can see why, in Nancy Pelosi’s mind, she believes that the bill is neutral when in fact, if the amendment is not placed into the text of the final bill, it will open up the flood gates to allow taxpayer funded abortions again.

Thankfully, Representative Stupak and 11 other democrats have vowed to vote against any legislation that does not have this important language in it. I for one applaud them for doing so. The fight against abortion has long been a conservative ideal. No matter how you look at it, in the end you are taking the lives of young humans that are too small and too weak to defend themselves. My hope is that at a minimum the Stupak-Pitts Amendment will be added to the bill, but if America is lucky the bill will die completely.