What was not in the compromise
Current news is that one of the House committees has come out of their latest wrangling over the health bill with a compromise.
President Obama’s ambitious plan to overhaul the nation’s healthcare system got a major boost when a pivotal House committee passed a compromise bill Friday night, clearing the way for a floor vote this fall.
The bill was approved 31 to 28, with five Democrats and all of the Republicans on the energy and commerce committee voting against it.
What news reports aren’t telling you (or don’t know, themselves) is that the amendment Energy and Commerce passed keeps taxpayer funded abortion in the health mandate. And that after passing that amendment, the committee went on to defeat a bi-partisan pro-life amendment that would have prevented tax dollars from funding abortion.Â
“This amendment could be the last chance to prevent the abortion mandate before the vote goes to floor of the House of Representatives,” said a pro-life leader in Washington by email, as this was going down.
“We have a historic opportunity to transform our healthcare system,” Rep. Mike Ross (D-Ark.), a leader of the panel’s conservative faction, said ahead of the vote.
Yes, we do. With a majority of American’s now identifying themselves as pro-life, and a larger majority opposing their taxes paying for abortion, we have a gargantuan opportunity to stand for the Judeo-Christian principles the nation was founded on through our elected representatives. Or set the historic precedent of unleashing abortion from all current regulations established by individual states, and making the people pay for it. In more ways than one.
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My concern with this whole debate is that the left is suckering us into government health care by distracting us with the abortion provisions when we should be focusing on defeating the entire concept of universal government health insurance.
With our focus on abortion coverage (which clearly would be a devastating attack on unborn babies) they win either way. If we succeed in removing the abortion provisions they get their universal health care, but if we fail, they get universal health care AND a vast increase in the number of abortions.
Abortion is, tragically, a legal medical procedure in America. If we have universal publicly financed health care, do we really think that the courts will not mandate abortion coverage?
We are right to fight any public funding of abortion, but we should not lose sight of the left’s attempt to take over health care in this country. If they succeed at that, they will eventually succeed in getting abortion coverage, either by legislating it or by court order.