Update: Rep. Kildee waffling on abortion
An AmP reader who took action and called Rep. Kildee’s office because of our CatholicVoteAction alert yesterday, tells us what Kildee’s office is saying today:
I just called Rep. Kildee’s DC office and spoke with a … young woman who said, “At this time, I understand that Rep. Kildee plans to vote for this health reform bill [as it stands], but he is carefully reviewing the language to make sure there are adequate protections [against abortion].”
As the US Bishops and many others have argued time and time again, the abortion “protections” in the current language are simply inadequate!
This is the radio ad we will have going up on the air in six radio stations servicing Flint and Saginaw, Michigan, starting at 6 am tomorrow morning:
Knowing the combined might of the CatholicVoteAction family, I know we can make sure this video gets tens of thousands of views!
Please do whatever you can to spread the word: for instance, embed the video on your Facebook page and blog – especially if you hail from this area of Michigan! And of course, continue calling Kildee’s office at (810) 239-1437.
And please, donate $15 dollars so we can continue keeping this ad on the air as long as we need to!
For more information on this situation, see my post today on the APP blog which shows how the Democrat leadership intends to push through Obamacare through the house – without even taking a real vote! Also: see this post by APP-contributor James Bell which introduces us to some of the faces behind the Stupak coalition.
Tags: abortion, action item, barack obama, bart stupak, catholic vote action, dale kildee, health care, nancy pelosi
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Vice President u have ashes on your forhead u say that your a Catholic shame on you passing this bill
kildee and levin have been in to long kildee forgot where he went church and school oust the democrats in this state and hire new democrat or republicans
What is scary now is that they have given up on a compromise. Hopefully pelosi hasn’t found a way to corrupt any holdouts.
This is precisely the time when some American bishop or bishops should act to help Catholic congressmen who are waivering. They should state very plainly in words that Bishop Trautman thinks simple Catholics would understand (congressmen certainly qualify) that any Catholic congressmen who votes for healthcare legislation which includes public funding of abortions, whether directly or indirectly, will be publicly excommunicated by bell, book, and candle, and may not present themselves for Holy Communion. I don’t want to hear some bishop say (after the bishops failed to act) well, we tried. Darn
This all seems terribly complicated, and it is. I see that as a problem. I have a good idea of how the process is supposed to work, and I suspect that the Administration and House Dems are trying to make this process extremely complicated in order to 1. make the citizenry unlikely to even know what to ask their Representatives to do, and 2. create legal slight of hand to avoid a direct discussion and decision on this issue.
I am not sure of the numbers, but I’d bet if they had just proposed a plan that had optional exchanges, subsidies, and Stupak’s language, they could have seduced enough Republicans to pass the thing in the Senate. Even now, if they added Stupak’s plan, there is an outside chance that even liberal senators would bite the bullet and uphold the ban on abortion funding, and they would perhaps not need to use legislative tricks and legal loopholes. Yet, for some reason, this is the hill the Democrats want to die on; or at least be mortally wounded on, since even if they get their bill, they seem to have more or less doomed themselves come November.
It just astounds me that 535 people can’t figure out a solution that is moral, just, and at least fiscally reasonable (if not responsible).
okay. Done ranting.
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