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Defend America on Tuesday, December 08, 2009 7:17:13 AM
The Stupak Lessons
What the pro-life senators can learn from the Stupak amendment in the House.
By Robert Costa
As
Friday, November 6, faded into the early hours of Saturday, November 7,
the Capitol was mostly empty. The statues of statesmen stood still in
the silence. The night guards talked sports, quietly. The only
footsteps were those of a handful of reporters loitering outside the
office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.). Inside, Pelosi and
House Democrats were huddling, hour after hour, trying to find a
compromise on abortion so that Pelosi’s
health-care bill
could be brought to the floor and passed. As the clock struck midnight,
there was some buzz inside, then nothing. Would there be a deal?
House Majority Leader
Steny Hoyer (D., Md.) emerged. “We’re making progress,” he said.
Abortion, he added, was a “small facet” of the internal House debate.
Then he was gone. Henry Waxman (D., Calif.) then popped out of the
meeting to tell reporters that abortion was, in fact, a huge part of
the deliberations between Pelosi and a group of pro-life Democrats led
by Bart Stupak (Mich.). “There’s a fundamental disagreement,” said
Waxman. “That’s just the reality.”
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