In a baffling about-face, Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) on Sunday fought against a last-ditch effort to insert his own abortion-funding ban in the reconciliation "fix" package for the Senate health care bill, which passed Sunday night. The House subsequently struck down Rep. Dave Camp's (R-MI) attempt to pass Stupak’s language 232-199.
While Camp referred to his proposal as the "Stupak-Pitts amendment," Stupak himself spoke against his Republican colleague's effort, saying it was an attempt to "politicize life" that merely "purports to be a right -to-life amendment. This is nothing more than an opportunity to continue to deny 32 million Americans health insurance. This motion does not promote life. It is the Democrats who have stood up for the principle of no public funding for abortions. ... The executive order ensures that the sanctity of life will be protected." LifeSiteNews
See also Stupak Defends Health Bill Vote, Democrats for Life Defend Health Care Votes, Haunted by the Passed, and Stupak defends Planned Parenthood
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