Coat Hangers: Free or Dead, the Drinking Game
A small procedural victory to get vote purely on abortion funding…
The Hill – Up-or-down vote on an amendment to block abortion funding approved
Stupak, flanked by a bipartisan coterie of abortion opponents, argued for consideration of their amendment that explicitiy prohibits federal funding of abortions under the Democrats’ healthcare bill before the Speaker’s select committee.
Which I thought wasn’t at issue. The money wouldn’t go towards “doctors” but private contractors who would then pay the “doctors”. Poof! Public funds no more!
Liberals on the committee threatened to vote against the final healthcare bill if it included Stupak’s language, warning that it would be a return to the days of back-alley abortions.
“I forsee a return to the dark ages,” said Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.). “I’m 73, I’ve seen these dark things, they use these coat hangers and die.”
Drink!
November 7th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
I love it when maintaining the status quo is called a return to the dark ages.