Family Research Council’s Washington Update on Health Care

 Ok, so I lack originality in these last three days of blogs, but believe me when I tell you that (1) I don’t trust myself to be completely respectful and loving in how I phrase things right now due to my saddness and discouragement over what has happened in the health care vote, and (2) these guys at FRC say it MUCH better than I ever could.  So with that, I give you an email I received from Family Research Council entitled “Haunted by the Passed,” in part below, and in its entirety here.

Washington Update 

Haunted by the Passed

He was the one none of us expected to be talking about today. For five months, Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) stood guard on the wall between Americans and his party’s army–a stubborn sentinel for life in a chamber of abortion-hungry Democrats. Without him there would have been no Stupak coalition, no Stupak language to ban taxpayer-funded abortion. In the end, conservatives couldn’t live without him. Now, neither can the unborn. In the last moments, when members tried to incorporate Stupak’s language into the bill, 21 pro-life Democrats voted for it. And for the first time in this Congress, Bart Stupak wasn’t one of them. Instead, the bill–completely devoid of pro-life protections–passed with his help, 219-212*.

With the clock ticking down, the Democrat from Michigan stunned everyone by trading away five agonizing months for a meaningless piece of White House paper. With one-sixth of the economy in his grasp, the President agreed to Stupak’s deal: an executive order that would somehow negate the abortion funding in the Senate bill. It was meant to reassure wobbly Democrats that the administration would protect taxpayers from any involvement in the abortion industry. Unfortunately, it does nothing of the sort. Just ask Planned Parenthood. In an email to supporters (subject: “VICTORY!”), the organization brags, “We were able to keep the Stupak abortion ban out of the final legislation and President Obama did not include the Stupak language in his executive order.” For once, FRC agrees with pro-abortionists like Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) who told the press that the executive order “doesn’t change anything.” . . .

Even the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) appealed to Rep. Stupak to reject the compromise. Its legal experts were unanimously opposed. ” The statutory mandate construed by the courts would override any executive order… only a change in the law enacted by Congress can… address this very serious problem.” The Wall Street Journal seemed surprised with the deal. “…[O]f course,” the editors write, “such an order can be revoked whenever it is politically convenient to do so.” As an attorney, Bart Stupak would have known that this was an empty gesture on the President’s part. More importantly, he turned away from beliefs and put that trust in the most pro-abortion President in U.S. history. Americans have come to expect this kind of betrayal from this White House–but they never expected it from the man fighting for life in his party. . .

If House and Senate leaders believed the American people would forgive and forget by Election Day, they were mistaken. Right now, the bill’s new taxes and mandates are scheduled to start hitting homes in the heat of the campaign season. Meanwhile, nine state attorneys general will do their best to fend off the federal invasion at their borders. In Alabama, North Dakota, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Washington, a collective lawsuit will launch the moment ObamaCare becomes law. . .

America is radically shifting in its opinion of the unborn–so much so that the only way Democrats could pass this bill was by putting a pro-life veneer on it. Those who ignore the people on this issue do so at their own peril. During his victory lap, President Obama said smugly, “This is what change looks like.” With all due respect, he hasn’t seen anything yet.

Please read the rest of this article here.  And then join me here later in the week as I return to non-political blog writing.  I’ve had enough of it all right now–not that I’m apathetic or will not be “standing on truth” with the voice that God gave me, but for now, I don’t have the stomach for it, and will be writing more along the lines of what you, my readers, voted for–Culture Through a Biblical Lens, Parenting, and Nutrition.  Join me!

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