Common Ground
by digby
I just want to give another shout out to the helpful Democratic strategists who think it’s just a terrific idea to encourage forced pregnancy advocates to run for office as Democrats:
House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) announced this weekend that Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) will soon introduce legislation that would bar Congress from using taxpayer money to support abortions or abortion coverage.
The legislation would extend the so-called “Hyde amendment,” which in its current form only applies to Health and Human Services (mainly Medicaid) funds allocated in the department’s annual appropriations bill; the issue came up again during the healthcare reform debate when an amendment by Reps. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) and Joseph Pitts (R-Penn.) to apply the Hyde language to the bill passed the House but not the Senate.
“I believe this must be the next objective for pro-life America,” Boehner said, speaking Saturday at the 40th annual National Right to Life Convention in Pittsburgh, Penn. “It’s clear from the health care debate that the American people don’t want their tax dollars paying for abortion, and a bipartisan majority in the House of Representatives agrees.”
No, it’s clear from the health care debate that the Catholic Bishops are an adjunct of the Republican party and that anti-choice Democrats are idiots.
This is a huge problem and it’s not going away. The Religion Industrial Complex has made huge strides in infiltrating the Democratic party, with the help of a bunch of “pragmatists” who insisted that if only they could neutralize these “icky” women’s issues we could pass our economic and foreign policy agenda easily. How’s that working out for us?
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