Obama to Sign Promised Executive Order on Abortion

Source: A.P.

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama plans to sign an executive order Wednesday reaffirming long-standing restrictions on federal funding of the procedure.

The order is part of an agreement with Democratic abortion opponents in the House that brought them over to Obama's side and pushed the health care bill over the top.

Obama has invited members of the Democrats' anti-abortion bloc, including its leader, Rep. Bart Stupak of Michigan, to the private afternoon signing at the White House.

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Geez, I wonder what these alpha males would do if only women were legislating and signing off on restrictions affecting their healthcare?

She's one of the harder core pro-life Dems and one of the Stupak finalists.

Can you say Bart Stupak?

Cause it's going to need to be erased.

it's traditional Democratic constituencies that need to be watching their backs....

http://politicalwire.com/aggregator/ However, the fact is that this is being reported. To some, no matter where it is coming from, it is not good news....

...in the name of ´bipartisanship´.

Sigh..

...that those who want government OUT of our health care are the same ones who want government CONTROLLING OUR UTERUS'S?!!!

Guess next time I need a pap smear I'll make an appointment with my district representative or state's senator.

Not just government either, call in to radio and tv (like cspan).

PS, great username.

I doubt these women haters would ban federal funding for prostate procedures.

...but in B.C., PSA tests aren't covered by medical yet mammograms and abortions are. Prostate cancer kills nearly the same number of men in B.C. as Breast cancer and yet this diagnostic tool is not provided free of charge.

is essentially useless in asymptomatic men for screening purposes.

Come on now.

and a nice lil boner he tossed to those who supported his plan and are anti-choice.

Nothing has changed whatsoever.

This is basically saying that there is nothing in the Healthcare Bill that changes what was passed about a decade ago.

And to be honest, I would rather not have anything related to abortion in the healthcare bill. We all knew this was a difficult juggernaut to pass, I would rather we fight these battles either as their own bill or better yet - thru our court systems.

I hope Obama absolutely had to do it for the bill to pass, because it has the force of law and may make things harder to undo.

This doesn't meant I'm somehow anti-choice. This just wasn't the place to fight the battle - we'll have better opportunities for success elsewhere.

Though I'm not a big fan of the bill (now law) to begin with.

I have said here how despite my reservations, I thought the bill had to pass. If there was anything I could have done to avoid more anti-choice language, I wouldn't have put it in. But I have no idea how the votes and circumstances were. Now, for the rest of the year, the President will likely focus on the economy and jobs - but more health reform can now come sooner than it would have if nothing passed IMO.

and keep bad ones off the bench.

Because at this point the matter of choice is beyond legislation and will only be solved thru litigation.

But honestly, we need to find better alternatives to abortion and focus on making those much more accessible. Whatever happened to RU-486. Could you imagine if all the doctor has to do is prescribe something and be done. And personally I wish it was something to doctor could give directly, because the abortion foes are trying to get pharmacists in on the battle.

That's simply a fact. It will be harder for women to access abortion.

It's not true that this doesn't change anything. And it's not true that this won't have consequences to abortion access. At least, let's be real about what we're doing.

that can happen....

just no body is going to get it for free if they are going to have an abortion by choice

because as another DUer pointed out, there is now a whole new class of funding. More hoops and now Hyde re-enforced by this EO.

Yes, it's a step backward for abortion access.

Ugly.

bombing the crap out of innocent people, pissing it away on larcenous "private contracters", throwing it by the handful at the Wall Street Masters, working to overthrow duly elected leftist officials in our hemisphere, but god fucking forbid we spend a single DIME helping a poor woman get a legal medical procedure. :crazy: :puke: :mad:

Thanks, O, for helping keep women under the bus for a lousy photo op to help keep anti-choicers baby fetish cred all shiney.

Can we get some men interested here in switching Father's Day to an

anti-war day? That was the basis of Mother's Day, as well, and we need

to get back to it!

Why no breast implants or sex changes? Why no hair transplants?

Gosh, those words used to be a contradiction.

What has happened to my party?

By Dems like Rahm Emmanuel. Never forget that.

That choice is one of the reasons why *I* call myself a Democrat. It is not a right that *I* feel could/should be negotiated away. It is an issue of major importance with me.

Why are they hiding this from the public?


This Executive Order, after all, is the eleventh-hour reason this health insurance reform legislation passed.







Wonder how many women will be attending this little private gathering...



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It's so hard to tell from down here under the bus.

:mad:

By signing an Executive Order maintaining the status quo on abortion, the President just FUCKED every single Republican who was absolutely, 100 percent CERTAIN the healthcare reform law was going to force them to pay for abortions through their tax dollars. Now the whole country can see just how unbelievably stupid those people were, and remain.

helpful to me! It's easy to get caught up in freaking out.

And he did it BY NOT CHANGING A THING ABOUT THE CURRENT LAW.

No federal funding for abortions = poor women get screwed.

Let's throw another scenario out there: we put federal funding for abortions into the HCR bill. Obviously it SHOULD be in there because, as you say, without it poor women are screwed. The results would be:

1. There would be no way the bill would pass with it in there. Way too many people, even people who think abortion should be legal, think the government should not fund abortion on demand. (Medicaid currently mandates abortion funding in cases of rape, incest, and the endangerment of the woman's life. Add "endanger's the woman's health" and it would be perfect. So, in reality, there is SOME federal abortion funding for poor women and nothing in the HCR bill alters that.) One of two things would have happened if it would have been put in there: it would have been stripped out at the first reading of the bill, or the whole bill would have been tabled.

2. The Religious Right would have used the one-time presence of abortion funding in the bill as a tool to help remove Democrats from Congress in November. Given a new majority, the Republicans would have generated even more restrictions on abortion. President Obama would have signed those bills in the spirit of bipartisanship.

3. The Religious Right would then have used the one-time presence of abortion funding in the bill as a tool to remove President Obama from office in 2012. They'll run a serious anti-abortion person who runs on a platform containing two planks: tax cuts and the need to insert an anti-abortion amendment to the Constitution.

4. With the support of the anti-abortion minority in America, this "sanctity of life" amendment would ban abortion for any reason whatsoever.

Given the choice of a Status Quo-maintaining executive order that makes the Republicans look like damn fools, or ultimately an environment where abortion even to protect the life of the mother is banned (and some anti-abortion people are so extreme they have come out and said there's no such thing as a medical condition that warrants abortion, which is a huge lie but they're sticking with it) I'll stand with the status quo.