President Obama’s executive order preventing federal money from paying for abortions in the new national health care system may not be much of a safeguard. But it’s surely significant that pro-lifers had the political clout to get one, while the pro-abortionists, despite a huge majority in the Democratic party, couldn’t stop it.
POLITICO columnist Ben Smith says that this demonstrates how politically weak the pro-abortion activists have become: “The battle exposed the profound weakness of the abortion rights movement, which — though often assumed to be identical with the Democratic Party — still simply doesn’t have the votes.”
Meanwhile, the pro-life movement is turning against Rep. Bart Stupak for seemingly caving on the issue, but the pro-abortionists are frantic and furious.
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