UPDATE1: The Executive Order will NOT work to stop government-funded abortion. Charmaine Yoest, president of Americans United for Life says:
“Once again, the proposal to address the problem of abortion funding in the health care bill through use of an executive order is a tacit acknowledgement that the bill as it stands is pro-abortion legislation. Both the President and the Speaker have repeatedly denied this stark fact.
Furthermore, the AUL legal team has concluded that an executive order is not an adequate fix to mitigate the Senate bill’s establishment of taxpayer-funded abortion. For example, an executive order cannot prevent insurance companies that pay for abortions in the exchanges from receiving federal subsidies.
In addition, executive orders can be undone or modified as quickly as they are created. President Obama revoked the Mexico City Policy, through the use of an executive order, and thereby allowed federal tax dollars to finance organizations that provide abortions internationally for the first time in years.
This fact, coupled with the Administration’s repeated endorsement of the pro-abortion lobby’s agenda, force any reasonable person to conclude that this bill will clearly create the largest expansion of taxpayer-funded abortion in American history.”
A lot has happened in the past 24 hours on the healthcare front. The abortion talks collapsed in the House. “Deem and Pass” has been shelved. Obama floated the idea of using an executive order to say that the Senate bill doesn’t fund abortion (a bad idea). One key Democrat stated that the House “makes up rules as they go along”.
SMS editors covered the giant Code Red tea party rally where there were tons of people wearing “Abortion is Not Healthcare” stickers and holding up signs indicating they don’t support the government funding abortion. One protester (photo below) even had a sign about Pelosi invoking the intercession of St. Joseph.
Philip Klein has a good summary of what happened today, especially in the abortion area here: http://tinyurl.com/yjrrejw.
Pictures from the tea party rally are here and some favorites are below:
