home

Obama Executive Order Preventing Abortion Funding May Sub for Stupak

By Jeralyn, Section Legislation
Posted on Sat Mar 20, 2010 at 01:31:24 PM EST
Tags: health care reform legislation (all tags)
Share This: Digg! StumbleUpon del.icio.us reddit reddit

A new deal seems to be in the works on abortion and the health care bill. It's mostly on Twitter. Seems President Obama is considering issuing an executive order to prevent funding of abortions -- rather than including it in the bill.

Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) says acceptance depends on the details. Evan Glass at CNN reports "Pro-choice Dem women are giving the green light for Obama to sign an executive order reaffirming no fed $ for abortion"

So what's the executive order going to say? According to Glass, "Democrats are 7 "no" votes shy of the 216 needed to defeat the bill." Meaning they only can afford to lose 7 votes?

< Who Obama Bargained With | Report: "Deem and Pass" Dead, Will Be Separate Vote on Senate Bill >

  • The Online Magazine with Liberal coverage of crime-related political and injustice news

  • Contribute To TalkLeft


    • Display: Sort:
    Obama Executive Order Preventing Abortion Funding May Sub for Stupak | 67 comments (67 topical)

    Readers Must Login or Create an Account to Comment

    This is just so disgusting... (5.00 / 3) (#1)
    by masslib on Sat Mar 20, 2010 at 01:41:39 PM EST
    I have to chuckle at the thousand feminists for Obama.

    I hope those "pro-choice Dem women" (5.00 / 1) (#2)
    by Cream City on Sat Mar 20, 2010 at 01:47:18 PM EST
    -- whoever they are, and however many they are who presume to speak for millions of pro-choice Dem women -- are getting in writing what Obama would put in writing before they give him that green light, considering some of his past comments about husbands and ministers and more.

    This somehow sounds like Progressives' bargaining, and we know how good they have been at that.  They don't even know how to turn on a yellow light to slow down, much less a red light to stop all the sops to anti-choice, anti-women's rights "Dems."

    Is there an exectutive order on abortion (5.00 / 5) (#3)
    by masslib on Sat Mar 20, 2010 at 01:53:15 PM EST
    from the Democratic President that you are good with?  The Senate bill is already a gross injustice to women, so I can't imagine what executive order that pleases the Stupakers would be acceptable.  Frankly, I don't want a Democratic President issuing any anti-abortion executive orders at all.

    Parent
    Democrats (5.00 / 5) (#4)
    by waldenpond on Sat Mar 20, 2010 at 02:02:08 PM EST
    are doing what the Repubs could never get done.  Could you imagine if Bush did an abortion executive order?  Obama does this, the next Repub will.  Obama may give an executive order that reaffirms Hyde.

    Parent
    To satisfy Stupak, the executive (5.00 / 2) (#5)
    by oculus on Sat Mar 20, 2010 at 02:03:19 PM EST
    order would have to be Stupak/Pitts amendment.

    Parent
    The mind just reels. (5.00 / 8) (#10)
    by Anne on Sat Mar 20, 2010 at 02:19:11 PM EST
    An executive order would give the Dems the ability to claim that they are not responsible for Stupak/Pitts being the law of the land; they aren't pulling the trigger, just subcontracting out the dirty work to the president, who seems a little too happy to accommodate.  Guess his silence on the whole issue really did say just what I though it did.

    Well, ironclad alibi or not, they are, in my opinion, just as responsible as if they did it themselves, because the results are the same.

    What a legacy; shining moments all around.

    Parent

    Maybe the promise will be as good as the FISA (5.00 / 1) (#15)
    by Inspector Gadget on Sat Mar 20, 2010 at 02:30:16 PM EST
    promise. One really never quite knows what to expect.

    But, if he made the promise, and keeps it, there should be no doubt left in anyone's mind as to why so many are simply unable to get on board with this administration.

    Parent

    One difference. (5.00 / 2) (#54)
    by mentaldebris on Sat Mar 20, 2010 at 04:41:32 PM EST
    The FISA promise was made to liberals and progressives. This promise would be made to conservatives/Blue Dogs.  

    With a track record like Obama's, I'd bank on this promise being fulfilled before I'd bank on any promise made to progressives/liberals fulfilled.

    Parent

    Ahhhh.... (none / 0) (#58)
    by Inspector Gadget on Sat Mar 20, 2010 at 05:55:08 PM EST
    I thought the promises were to the voters.

    Parent
    I thought the pressure (none / 0) (#65)
    by mentaldebris on Sun Mar 21, 2010 at 01:52:19 AM EST
    to keep the promise was coming from the left. Maybe I'm remembering it wrong.  

    So many promises, so little time to keep track of their origins and their fates.

    Parent

    They couldn't (none / 0) (#66)
    by Socraticsilence on Sun Mar 21, 2010 at 11:23:18 PM EST
    you can control fed