At the White House health care summit held today at the Blair House, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in response to House Minority Leader John Boehner's remarks that the President's health care proposal allows for the first time in 30 years taxpayer funding of abortion, heatedly said that "there is no public funding of abortion in these bills and I don't want our listeners or viewers to get the wrong impression from what you said." If there is no public funding of abortion in these bills, then why is Speaker Pelosi opposed to explicit language prohibiting taxpayer funding of abortion? The November 7, 2009, edition of The New York Times, in discussing the Democratic struggle with abortion funding in the House health care bill, reported the following: "It was late Friday night and lawmakers were stalling for time. In a committee room, they yammered away, delaying a procedural vote on the historic health care legislation. Down one floor, in her office, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi desperately tried to deal with an issue that has bedeviled Democrats for more than a generation — abortion. After hours of heated talks, the people she was trying to convince — some of her closest allies — burst angrily out of her office.
"Her attempts at winning them over had failed, and Ms. Pelosi, the first woman speaker and an ardent defender of abortion rights, had no choice but to do the unthinkable. To save the health care bill she had to give in to abortion opponents in her party and allow them to propose tight restrictions barring any insurance plan that is purchased with government subsidies from covering abortions.
"The restrictions were necessary to win support for the overall bill from abortion opponents who threatened to scuttle the health care overhaul."
The Stupak amendment, which prohibited taxpayer funding of abortion and which was opposed by Nancy Pelosi, was passed by the House of Representatives and became a part of the House health care bill. The health care proposal passed by the Senate did not include an explicit prohibition on taxpayer funded abortion. The President's plan, which was the basis of discussion at the White House health care summit held today, does not prohibit taxpayer funding of abortion. Under the Senate bill and the White House proposal, which is based on the Senate bill, the door is wide open for public funding of abortion.
Please pray that God will reveal the truth about proposed legislation and taxpayer funding of abortion. Politicians will distort truth to get what they want. May God shine His light on the evil that is taking place in our government.
May God have mercy on our nation.
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