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Sympathy For The Stupak
Mar. 22nd, 2010 12:31 amWell, the bill passed. It's not the end game for health reform... as far as I'm concerned, Congress has only just now plunked its quarters in, having finally decided that yes, they are bad enough dudes to save the American people. This is level one, people, and it's not going to get any easier from here... but the chances of success are higher than if they'd blinked and walked away.
Among the reasons it took so long to get this far is Bart Stupak, who thinks it's a sin to allow persons bearing wombs unfettered access to healthcare. Although a Democrat, he agrees with the predominantly Republican position that the government should stand as a buffer between women and their doctors and be the final arbiter on reproductive medical issues.
"Pro-Life", in the vernacular.
But surprisingly, I come here not to bury Bart Stupak... Phyllis Schlafly's doing that for me. In a press release that Yahoo! has mistaken for an item of news, Schlafly... mother of Andy Schlafly, a man who once entertained a serious debate as to whether "bimbo" or "floozy" was the best representation of God's inerrant word in a Bible passage describing a young girl now that the English language had blessed us with levels of misogyny he assumed that ancient Greek couldn't have mustered... describes Stupak as being "formerly Pro-Life" based on his support of the health care bill.
Because he was willing to settle for an executive order making it explicit that the law that contained no changes to the restrictions on federal money used for abortions would not make any changes to the restrictions on federal money used for abortions, this "article" represents as a matter of fact that he's renounced his Pro-Life position.
If only, Phyllis... if only.
Oh, well... she's still one up on the actual reporters of Fox News who slap a "D"-tag on any Republican caught in an embarrassing situation.
Among the reasons it took so long to get this far is Bart Stupak, who thinks it's a sin to allow persons bearing wombs unfettered access to healthcare. Although a Democrat, he agrees with the predominantly Republican position that the government should stand as a buffer between women and their doctors and be the final arbiter on reproductive medical issues.
"Pro-Life", in the vernacular.
But surprisingly, I come here not to bury Bart Stupak... Phyllis Schlafly's doing that for me. In a press release that Yahoo! has mistaken for an item of news, Schlafly... mother of Andy Schlafly, a man who once entertained a serious debate as to whether "bimbo" or "floozy" was the best representation of God's inerrant word in a Bible passage describing a young girl now that the English language had blessed us with levels of misogyny he assumed that ancient Greek couldn't have mustered... describes Stupak as being "formerly Pro-Life" based on his support of the health care bill.
Because he was willing to settle for an executive order making it explicit that the law that contained no changes to the restrictions on federal money used for abortions would not make any changes to the restrictions on federal money used for abortions, this "article" represents as a matter of fact that he's renounced his Pro-Life position.
If only, Phyllis... if only.
Oh, well... she's still one up on the actual reporters of Fox News who slap a "D"-tag on any Republican caught in an embarrassing situation.
