Stupak Ally in House Approves Senate Abortion Restrictions

By GottaLaff

Bye bye, Stupak. Your 15 minutes have come and gone, and now even your allies are abandoning you:

Representative Dale Kildee, Democrat of Michigan and a strong opponent of abortion, announced on Wednesday that he was satisfied with the provisions in the Senate-passed health care bill that seek to limit the use of federal money for insurance coverage of abortion.

As he should be. Please. And Stupak knows he was spinning his self-centered wheels, because due to the restrictions of that good old procedure called reconciliation, his concerns couldn't have been addressed anyway.

Plus there's this obvious little fact:

[A] vote for the bill would not reflect any change in policy on abortion, including the law known as the Hyde amendment, which prohibits the use of federal money for abortion in most cases.

Kildee:

“We must not lose sight of what is at stake here — the lives of 31 million American children, adults, and seniors who don’t have health insurance [...] There is nothing more pro-life than protecting the lives of 31 million Americans. Voting for this bill in no way diminishes my pro-life voting record or undermines my beliefs. I am a staunch pro-life member of Congress — both for the born and the unborn.”

Dennis Kucinich's earlier support + this = Badly needed boost for Democrats.