Stupak’s Health Care Vote Aborts The Pro-Life Movement

The backroom deals between Bart Stupak and Obama resulted in an unpopular Health Care Bill being rammed down the throats of millions of Americans through a total defiance of the representational process and the US constitution.

Bartering the lives of the unborn for Obama’s grant of $700,000 to erect chain link fences to keep rabbits away at three airports in his Congressional district in Michigan, Stupak has stooped to the lowest level of cut-and-shuffle politics.

Last minute approval for the health care legislation that tipped the scales by a 219-212 vote emerged when “Pro-Life” Stupak and ten other Democrats abandoned their insistence that the bill include language that would prevent federal dollars from covering abortion.

Instead, Stupak and his allies accepted a sham Executive Order—and trashed all the promises of “no compromise” made to their constituents.'

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PELOSI: Buy a $15,000 Policy or Go to Jail

Today, Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp (R-MI) released a letter from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirming that the failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy health insurance contained in the Pelosi health care bill (H.R. 3962, as amended) could land people in jail. The JCT letter makes clear that Americans who do not maintain “acceptable health insurance coverage” and who choose not to pay the bill’s new individual mandate tax (generally 2.5% of income), are subject to numerous civil and criminal penalties, including criminal fines of up to $250,000 and imprisonment of up to five years.'

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