Paul Ryan: Health Care Funds Abortions

Bart Stupak and his band of alleged pro-life House colleagues have sold out the unborn.

I can't believe that they don't know this.

Stupak's hypocrisy really bugs me.

How dare he talk about the sanctity of life!

He has to know what he's done. He has to know Obama's executive order won't stand.

This is all so sleazy.

The alleged pro-life Stupak bothers me more in this fraud than Obama, the most extreme pro-abortion proponent ever to be elected president.

He's not pretending to be pro-life, like Stupak. Obama is radically pro-abortion and everyone knows it.

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PAUL RYAN: I would just simply say we've consulted every legal expert we can find in the last 24 hours as to whether this kind of an executive order has durability, and it doesn't. See, because the law itself does fund abortions, an executive order layered on top is not sustainable. And so we really just don't think from a legal standpoint that this works. It's really the rule of man, not the rule of law. And so we don't see an executive order like this actually standing the test of time, and it will, it will go away one way or the other in the not too distant future we believe.

...I think the pro-choice community will come up with a legal challenge to the executive order. And then the question is: Is that sustainable? And what our legal experts are telling us is it may not be. And so we wouldn't be challenging that kind of an executive order. NARAL, Planned Parenthood, and those other groups I think would be challenging this executive order. The leader of the pro-choice caucus is supporting this deal, and I think that's a fairly revealing statement.

Exactly.

The pro-abortion proponents are fine with this deal.

That says all you need to know.

Obama is a liar, and Stupak is stupid or a coward or both.

Another possibility --

Stupak was bought.

Sanctity of life?

Right.