The House of Representatives Health Care Debate

You can watch it now, live, as they debate the Stupak-Pitts amendment which would prevent federal funding of abortion under any Health Care Reform bill that gets passed and enacted into law. The Stupak-Pitts Amendment would prohibit coverage of elective abortion in two big new federal programs created by the bill — the new federal health insurance plan (“public option”) and the premium-subsidy program (“affordability credits”).
Please call your representative now 202-224-3121 and ask them to support this important amendment, regardless of their perspective on the Affordable Health Care For America Act. Don’t know who your representative is? You can find that information here.
Update: The Stupak-Pitts Amendment has passed by a 240-194 vote (with one “present” vote).
Update #2: Some argue that Stupak-Pitts was bad pro-life strategy, because the Democratic leadership could strip the language later. (HT: Michael Duenes)
HT: Justin Taylor

November 7, 2009 in Culture | 1 Comment

One Response to “The House of Representatives Health Care Debate”

Erik Haugen November 10, 2009 at 9:57 am #

re. bad strategy; the pro-choice crowd sure seems upset.
Also, tactically: Stupak says “We won because [the Democrats] need us. If they are going to summarily dismiss us by taking the pen to that language, there will be hell to pay. I don’t say it as a threat, but if they double-cross us, there will be 40 people who won’t vote with them the next time they need us—and that could be the final version of this bill.” If they remove it in conference, it still has to pass a house vote. We’ll see if Stupak is bluffing…

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