read my lips, “No federal dollars will be used…”
This just in from the Associated Press:
WASHINGTON – A bipartisan House coalition voted Saturday to prohibit coverage of abortions in a new government-run health care plan that Democrats would establish to compete with private insurers.
The 240-194 vote on an amendment by Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., was a blow to liberals, who would have allowed the Obama administration and its successors to decide whether abortions would be covered by the government plan. Sixty-four Democrats joined 176 Republicans in favor of the prohibition…
The amendment would bar the new government insurance plan from covering abortions, except in cases of rape, incest, or where the life of the mother is in danger. The Democrats’ original legislation would have allowed the government plan to cover abortions, if the Health and Human Services secretary decided it should.
But wait just a minute… didn’t Obama just recently promise the American people that (and I quote):
[N]o federal dollars will be used to fund abortions?”
So… maybe I’m just a bit confused… if there were no provisions providing tax dollars to be spent on abortion, why did Congress just have to vote on an amendment to REMOVE said provision?
These are the questions that make you really think…