Are The Republicans Stupak?
Posted on November 20th, 2009 by David Lindsay
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This is the point at which the Republicans are called out on abortion. Ideally, when radical feminist Dems threaten to sink the Bill because of Stupak. Don’t bet against that one. Handed the power to save the Bill that, by making most healthcare federally funded, would make abortion all but impossible, what will the GOP then do? Plenty of Catholics, white Evangelicals, and others will be watching. It might not happen like that. But it is going to happen. Thanks to Stupak, this is the point at which the Republicans have to put up or shut up on the abortion issue. And thus on any future hope of the pro-life vote, without which the GOP could no longer continue to exist.
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Excellent Post Mr. Lindsay
It’s about time the Republicans cease talking about abortion and actually do something about it. Remember, they had complete control of the federal government for nearly 6 years and did nothing significant during that time. But yap, yap, yap is all we got. George Bush wouldn’t even show his face at the March For Life.
So the way to cut down on abortion is to support unconstitutional federal health care that includes Stupak? And Catholics and Evangelicals will be watching? Good grief. You so do not understand American politics. The number of pro-Life Evangelicals who are rooting for the health care bill in the name of less abortions could meet in a phone booth. That constituency does not exist.
Abortions aren’t that expensive, and most are privately paid for already. That federal health care will make abortions “all but impossible” to procure is simply wishful thinking.
How about this? We have no unconstitutional federal health care and laws against killing babies. That is what Evangelicals in this country want.
But they are not exactly holding their breath for it. Something is only unconstitutional if the Supreme Court says it is, and I am amazed at your faith in that body. And the Evangelicals are among those most likely to benefit from the healthcare legislation, which, moreover, levels the playing field by ending the situation in which abortion is far less expensive than carrying a pregnancy to term.
If, and don’t rule it out, radical feminists opposed to Stupak decide to stage Hillary’s Revenge by opposing the Bill itself in the end, specifically because of Stupak, then what will the GOP do? If the Republicans wish to become the party only of those who read the Constitution as if it were the Qur’an, to the exclusion of those who read the Bible as if it were the Bible, then they had better prepare themselves for oblivion.