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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Tue Jan 9, 2018, 10:08 AM Jan 2018

EXCLUSIVE. Secret Pro-Life Meeting With Mike Pence Killed Obamacare Fix - For Now

Pro-life groups held a behind-closed-doors meeting with VP Mike Pence shortly before the bipartisan compromise deal to patch up Obamacare went down in flames.

ANDREW DESIDERIO
01.09.18 5:29 AM ET

A bipartisan effort to stabilize the U.S. health-insurance markets collapsed last month after anti-abortion groups appealed directly to Vice President Mike Pence at the 11th hour, The Daily Beast has learned.

Amid opposition from conservatives in the House of Representatives, a group of pro-life activists met with Pence to lobby the Trump administration against supporting a health-insurance market-stabilization bill on the grounds that it does not contain sufficient language on abortion restrictions, according to sources with direct knowledge of the meeting. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was also in attendance at the Dec. 19 meeting, three of the sources said.

The next day, key lawmakers involved in crafting the legislation announced they were punting on the issue until 2018.

A spokeswoman for the vice president confirmed the meeting to The Daily Beast. A spokesman for McConnell did not respond to requests for comment.

Efforts to pressure Pence, a hardline social conservative and a former lawmaker, are thrusting abortion back onto the national stage in a debate over the future of health care in America, as Republicans deliberate behind closed doors on whether to try to scrap Obamacare again in 2018.

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EXCLUSIVE. Secret Pro-Life Meeting With Mike Pence Killed Obamacare Fix - For Now (Original Post) DonViejo Jan 2018 OP
A group of people Corgigal Jan 2018 #1
You mean the pro-death group, Iliyah Jan 2018 #2
I wish our side wouldnt use the False Terminology of the Right... VOX Jan 2018 #3
see below. barbtries Jan 2018 #6
I heard/read that they DO WANT to go back and completely BigmanPigman Jan 2018 #4
i really wish people would STOP calling these people pro life. barbtries Jan 2018 #5
/// THIS /// VOX Jan 2018 #12
Pence is Showing the World Who He Really Is dlk Jan 2018 #7
But, unfortunately, only for those with the eyes to see. calimary Jan 2018 #9
Instiutionalized racism under the guise of religion. Greybnk48 Jan 2018 #8
Force ppl to have children they are not ready for and then eliminate the social programs iluvtennis Jan 2018 #10
As if I needed any further reason to despise him RandomAccess Jan 2018 #11

Corgigal

(9,291 posts)
1. A group of people
Tue Jan 9, 2018, 10:10 AM
Jan 2018

met with Manafort's pick, to make sure he cares about unborn children. Which I guess is more important then the land their children are standing on now remains America.

Deep thinkers.

barbtries

(28,811 posts)
6. see below.
Tue Jan 9, 2018, 11:03 AM
Jan 2018

when i see anti abortion people being describe as pro life it triggers me. i get pissed.

BigmanPigman

(51,626 posts)
4. I heard/read that they DO WANT to go back and completely
Tue Jan 9, 2018, 10:50 AM
Jan 2018

repeal the ACA this year. I think the Moron does too. I hope the Dems run on this issue, the Tax Scam, his promised tax returns, jobs disappearing, stagnant wages, and Climate Change, and infrastructure.

I think we should leave abortion and guns out of it (too divisive).

We should wait and see what happens with the Russian interference investigation before we use it as part of the campaign. Same with impeachment and his mental state. We need to know how many Americans would vote for impeachment (right now it is about 50/50% for and against impeachment) when we get closer to the elections.

I don't know if we should mention how many times he played golf on the Tax Payers' dime or his sexual harassment allegations and #ME TOO.

barbtries

(28,811 posts)
5. i really wish people would STOP calling these people pro life.
Tue Jan 9, 2018, 11:02 AM
Jan 2018

fuck them, i'm pro life, that's why i am opposed to endless war and hungry children. Anti abortion. Pro forced birthers. Anti Choice. Anti Woman.

that is all. Liberal is not a dirty word, and these people are only pro life as long as it is in utero

VOX

(22,976 posts)
12. /// THIS ///
Tue Jan 9, 2018, 05:50 PM
Jan 2018

Precisely! And the right wing LOVES birth control after-the-fact: endless wars, slashing ACA befits, the continuing proliferation and fetishization of firearms.

They are NOT pro-life; if they were, they’d feed and clothe the homeless, provide aid to the terminally ill, and do something about climate change. For starters.

dlk

(11,575 posts)
7. Pence is Showing the World Who He Really Is
Tue Jan 9, 2018, 12:21 PM
Jan 2018

This is why, in many ways, he would be worse than Trump.

calimary

(81,453 posts)
9. But, unfortunately, only for those with the eyes to see.
Tue Jan 9, 2018, 12:41 PM
Jan 2018

He’s a sneaky little shit. Likes to pull these tricks in secret. Behind closed doors. That was his devious behavior in Indiana, too, with that “my-religion-trumps-your-rights” bill that he signed behind closed doors wit only religious folks clustered around him in a nice sneaky little group shot.

If these folks REALLY were “pro-life”, they wouldn’t be so hellbent on destroying life after it’s born. Whether it’s a new baby or a species or maybe even an entire ecosystem.

But, hey, shoot the moon, why not? Besides, it’s little more than the next marketplace just ripe for exploitation.

Greybnk48

(10,176 posts)
8. Instiutionalized racism under the guise of religion.
Tue Jan 9, 2018, 12:29 PM
Jan 2018

"Pro-life." I don't allow anyone to say that label in conversations with me, ever, without a challenge. The right wing "Christian" movement is an arm of the KKK.

iluvtennis

(19,871 posts)
10. Force ppl to have children they are not ready for and then eliminate the social programs
Tue Jan 9, 2018, 12:47 PM
Jan 2018

for those babies/children to grow up health and thrive. Now that's family values.

Have never understood this GOP policy of protect fetus and allow birth but once the child is born, they wash their hands of it.

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