Rep. Stupak: Strip out abortion provisions or I side with Republicans on health care

By GottaLaff

Why must it always come down to abortion? Because it's an easy wedge issue, that's why. An emotional, tried and true, stomp your foot, turn on your heel and go home issue. Providing proper health care should extend to anyone who needs it, including those who abide by the--What's it called again? Oh yeah-- U.S. Constitution. Here we go again:

Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) on Tuesday threatened that he may work with Republicans to torpedo healthcare reform unless he gets a vote to strip abortion-related provisions out of the House bill.

Stupak wants a floor vote on a measure that would prohibit taxpayer funds from being used for abortions. And in an interview on C-SPAN on Tuesday, he suggested if Democratic leaders don’t give him the vote, he’ll work with Republicans.

Well now, that's pretty irritating.

Some Democrats have been irritated by Stupak’s public campaign to change the bill, something Stupak is well aware of.

See?

Stupak said he has about 40 Democrats who will vote no on healthcare reform unless Democratic leaders change their bill on the abortion language. That would be enough to take down the bill if every GOP lawmaker votes no. [...]

Rep. Chris Van Hollen (Md.), assistant to the Speaker and head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, acknowledged that the abortion language was one of several matters holding up a final bill.

So what does Henry Waxman, the Mustache of Justice, have to say about this?

“We have insisted that people be allowed to have their own private dollars provide an abortion when it’s medically necessary, but they want to go much further than that,” Waxman explained.

They always do.