Nancy Pelosi has taken hyperbolic statements to a new level today with this sound bite.
For Democrats, preventing federal funding from being used to pay for abortions, something specifically refuted as a possibility during the healthcare reform debates, will produce this result.
The House is scheduled to vote this week on a new bill that would allow federally-funded hospitals that oppose abortions to refuse to perform the procedure, even in cases where a woman would die without it.
This would be news to the sponsors of the amendment since it very clearly states that the opposite is true:
Majority Leader Eric Cantor announced last week that the Protect Life Act, H.R. 358, will be considered in the House of Representatives on Thursday. The measure would amend President Obama’s Affordable Care Act to reflect the Hyde amendment by prohibiting taxpayer dollars from funding any health plan that includes coverage of elective abortions. The measure retains Hyde’s exception for abortions performed due to the child’s conception in rape or incest or to save the mother’s life.
So then what is the left screaming about? Well in fact they are simply furious that anyone is allowed to be religiously exempt from being forced to train in or perform abortions.
The pro-life measure also ensures that state laws “protecting conscience rights, restricting or prohibiting abortion or coverage or funding of abortion, or establishing procedural requirements on abortion” are not abrogated by Obamacare. It also makes it so any state or local governments receiving funding under Obamacare may not subject any health care entity to discrimination or require any health plan to subject any entity to discrimination on the basis that it refuses to undergo abortion training, refuses to require abortion training, refuses to perform or pay for abortions, or refuses to provide abortion referrals.
In the world of Democrats, having state rights remain intact despite Obamacare, and affording religious groups the right to not murder babies against their will, has become synonymous with leaving dying women on the floor.
And all this because of a provision that will force Obamacare to not do exactly what we were told over and over it wouldn’t do: provide federal assistance for abortions.
Have no fear liberals. In the great spirit of bi-partisanship and compromise, President Obama has already assured us that he will veto the bill.
Daniel Horowitz
Moe Lane
Dan McLaughlin
Steve Maley
It is perfectly logical for Pelosi to say this.
gekster (Diary) Thursday, October 13th at 2:27PM EDT (link)She won’t read the bill until it passes.
They say Republicans are for the rich, Democrats are for the poor.
If they need more voters,
then they have to make more of who they are for.
We are there in the various Tea Party groups, leaderless, but not rudderless.
We steer always toward the Constitutional principles this nation was founded upon.
Erick Brockway
I’ve gone from
“Hope and Change” to
“Hopeless and Changeless”
* Face-palm *
phototiger Thursday, October 13th at 2:42PM EDT (link)What’s truly “appalling” is that Mrs. Pelosi is elected to this office by imbeciles who couldn’t recite the pledge of allegiance without cue cards.
Equally appalling is Pelosi’s desire to spout off on issues, despite her tenuous grasp on sanity.
Oh well. At least she’s a FORMER Speaker of the House.
Get the Straightjacket
boats48 Thursday, October 13th at 3:50PM EDT (link)This woman does not belong in our government. She is thoroghly & certifiably insane. I can’t begin to tell the last time she said anything of value! She and her understudy, Wasserman-Schultz, seem to think the more outrageous the statement, the stronger the support. On the contrary, we all think you’re nuts! Please resign!
We all know that...
lastgopinillinois (Diary) Thursday, October 13th at 6:46PM EDT (link)Pelosi’s comment PROVES that the democrats have known all along that 0bamas executive order prohibiting federal funding of abortions to garner the support of the “dirty dozen” (12 socially conservative democrats who opposed 0bamacare) is a worthless piece of paper.
All of this type of deceit by democrats makes me wonder how Pelosi and 0bama can still be in public office.
Conservatives should look for an avenue to bring up charges against all the liers who perpetrated this ruse.
Minimum penalty should include courtmarshall, a heavy fine, total loss of federal retirement pension and public reprimand on the floor of congress televised by C-Span
In the beginning, God created earth to be an extension of his vast Kingdom and his LOVE was so great that he wanted to share it with man, whom he created in his own image and likeness and gave him free will.
To this very principal, the Founding Fathers of our nation decreed that freedom is a God-given in-alienable right of all the people.
Exactly - If, as Obama claims, they already follow Hyde...
bk (Diary) Thursday, October 13th at 7:31PM EDT (link)then they are already letting women die.
Of course that’s just as big a lie as all of Pelosi’s garbage.
On the bright side, I sure hope the average person is getting tired of the endless Chicken Little stuff from the liberals.
Wake up America
rpr0174 Friday, October 14th at 10:33AM EDT (link)It is very clear that this woman and Oboner should not be allowed to continue on their path of destroying our country. These 2 are very seriously insane and they both have to be stopped. We are headed down the path of an Obamination instead of the United States of America. They are letting women die and they don’t give a dam. They are worried only about making Oboner the dictator of our country and a Czar to be afraid of. This man is pure evil and turning his back on the people that voted him into office. He only wants us to believe that he is doing everything he can for us but he is having all this trouble because of the Republicans voting down all his self proclaimed great plans to save America. What a joke, what a disgrace, and what a dam liar he is. Do not let this traitor pull the wool over your eyes, Oboner, Pelose, Bohner, Biden, all of them have to be stopped now before it is too late.
Don’t bother: I’ve already been tossed by the moderators.
Small Gov vs Big Gov
drfredc Sunday, October 16th at 1:25PM EDT (link)Conservatives continue to be misguided in promoting the goal that small government is the solution to the nation’s woes.
Small government is the result of promoting dynamic individually driven social marketplaces. Just having a small government doesn’t mean one necessarily has dynamic individually driven social marketplaces. However, any society with dynamic individually driven social marketplaces will have a small government footprint.
Conversely, big government is the result of promoting collectivist politically driven social marketplaces. In this regard Pelosi is correct : Small government, without vibrant individually driven social marketplaces that provides access to care for those of limited means, may allow women to die on the floor.
Conservatives should expect this sort of nonsense to continue to gush out of liberals mouths so long as conservative leaders continue to promote small government as their primary goal, rather than first promoting vibrant individually driven social marketplaces.
Translation — Conservatives will continue to look stupid to many of the electorate as conservatives just don’t get the importance of properly designed and operated big or little social marketplaces.
Fine print — RINOs and most of the GOP LOSERship don’t get the individually driven social marketplace concept any more than liberals.
Always, Fred C