To get the votes to pass Obama's government-run health care, the Democrats had to cut a deal with their pro-life colleagues.
The compromise that satisfied Bart Stupak and his fellow pro-life Dems, enabling them cover to support the bill, involved Obama signing an executive order to bar federal funds from being used for abortion services.
At the time, the order was deemed by both anti-abortion and pro-abortion proponents to be worthless.
That was a good call.
Barbara Lyons, Wisconsin Right to Life, writes:
It is the first proof that Obama’s assurances of no federal funding for abortion are phony, phony, phony.
The Obama Administration will give Pennsylvania $160 million to set up a new “high-risk” insurance program under a provision of Obamacare and has quietly approved a plan submitted by an appointee of Governor Edward Rendell (D) under which the new program will cover any abortion that is legal in Pennsylvania. The high-risk pool is one of the new programs created by the sweeping federal health care bill signed into law on March 23.
We knew the rhetoric was phony from the start, from assurances by the Secretary of Health and Human Services to the President’s useless Executive Order. President Obama will include funding of abortion and abortion coverage whenever and wherever possible in federal government programs.
The President worked overtime to ensure that his signature health care law would allow subsidies for abortion coverage and federal funding of abortions. Now his Administration is working behind the scenes to expand abortion using administrative decisions which he hopes will escape public notice. This is the first but will not be the last of Obama’s programs which will subsidize abortions.
When the most pro-abortion president in the history of our country signed the executive order supposedly guaranteeing that no federal funds would be used to kill the unborn, upholding the Hyde Amendment, I had my doubts.
Yuval Levin called the executive order option "almost purely symbolic" and a "bad joke."
Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, speaking from the floor of the House, explained that an executive order from Obama would NOT be effective. The passage of the health care legislation WILL mean that federal funds will pay for abortions.
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Democrat, admitted, "An executive order can't change the law."
The $160 million given by the Obama administration to Pennsylvania to "set up a new 'high-risk' insurance program under a provision of Obamacare," one that "will cover any abortion that is legal in Pennsylvania," verifies that Obama's executive order was, in fact, a very bad joke.
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