Abortion: A Harry Issue...Here's a curious story from Politico.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid found his health reform efforts seriously complicated Monday by the explosive issue of abortion, as key centrist senators said they wanted to see airtight language in the bill blocking federal funding for the procedure.
Abortion threatened to derail a House health reform bill Saturday, and now it’s standing in the way of Reid’s attempts to get 60 votes as well, with Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) saying he wants to see language as restrictive as the House’s in the Senate bill.
If the language isn’t clear in prohibiting federal funds for abortion, “you could be sure I would vote against it,” said Nelson, who met with Reid on Monday.
The Gordian knot for the Democratic caucus, as they attempt to ramrod this health care bill through Congress and down our throats, is the question of abortion. It's a bit of an irony that, despite their robust majorities in Congress, the Democratic leadership, historically always gung-ho for abortion "rights", is being tripped up over what to do on this issue. Watch them though; for they will try every kind of trickery to poke holes in the House amendment, thus rendering it impotent. But then, they will lose the moderates in their own Party. A sticky situation for the left, indeed: What do they value more, abortion on demand, or socialized medicine? Hopefully, they will get neither. The bottom line is that this family quarrel between emboldened pro-life Democrats and the traditionally pro-abortion members of the Party reveals changing public attitudes on the question. More Americans identify themselves as "pro-life" than ever before.
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