Ah, that's the way to show your pro-life values, keep millions of people uninsured if you can't force poor and middle class women to resort to illegal abortions.
WASHINGTON (AFP) – A top Democratic US lawmaker said Thursday abortion foes are ready to kill President Barack Obama's huge health overhaul unless it meets their demands to block funding for the procedure.
"I want to see health care, but we're not going to bypass some principles and beliefs and we feel strongly about," Representative Bart Stupak told ABC television.
Stupak said he and roughly a dozen Democratic allies "are prepared to take responsibility" for scuttling the sweeping legislation if they do not get their version of a ban on what they view as federal subsidies for abortion.
Frankly, it sounds to me like he's bluffing. Put up or shut up, Bart. Give us the names of those dozen members who are willing to go down in infamy--and probably defeat in November, because they sure as hell won't get many Democratic votes--with you. Last week it was 15-20 Dem members you said you had. Now it's a dozen. Either you're a liar, or you don't have back up. So show us the names.