CNN reports that Congressman Bart Stupak (D-MI), the author of the Stupak pro-life amendment that passed the House, has called President Obama’s enhanced pro-abortion version of Obamacare “unacceptable.”
 
The Senate version of Obamacare, which provides for federal funding of abortion on demand, has been denounced by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. 
 
In a December 22, 2009 letter, the bishops wrote that “the bill should be opposed.”
 
On January 20, 2010, the Bishops’ Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities produced an analysis, Issues of Life and Conscience in Health Care Reform in the House and Senate Bills, which stated “that on a number of basic issues--federal funding of abortion, preventing government abortion coverage mandates, and conscience protection on abortion--the Senate health care reform bill is very deficient compared to the House version.”
 
Douglas Johnson, Legislative Director of the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), warned that the Senate’s Obamacare Bill is “the most expansively pro-abortion bill ever brought to the floor of either house of Congress since Roe v. Wade.” 
 
The new Obama proposal is even worse.
 
It would add direct funding of all abortions through Community Health Centers, which Johnson says “would institute federal subsidies for private health plans that cover abortion on demand and would authorize federal mandates that would require even non-subsidized private plans to cover elective abortions.”
 
In addition, this measure also would also force rationing of life saving medical treatment.
 
Dave Andrusko, Editor of the National Right to Life News, said the Obama proposal was equivalent to “the pro-abortion Senate bill on steroids.”
 
As explained in the January 28 and February 5 issue of the What’s Happening with Seniors Benefits newsletters, liberals are determined to pass Obamacare, no matter what the American people think.
 
Their plan is to have the House pass the Senate bill and then for the House and Senate to pass another bill to make changes in the Senate bill.  Using a parliamentary trick called “reconciliation,” this bill could not be filibustered in the Senate and therefore could be passed with only 50 votes and Vice President Biden’s vote to break a tie.
 
Dick Morris indicates in his February 19 and February 23 reports that this cannot be stopped in the Senate.  Only with the support of pro-life Democrats in the House can Obamacare be stopped.
 
The January 8 issue of What’s Happening with Seniors Benefits listed the 42 Congressmen who voted for the pro-life Stupak Amendment, which passed 240-194, and the House version of Obamacare, which passed 220-215.
 
If most of these House members vote against the pro-abortion Senate version of Obamacare, then the bill cannot be passed.
 
The outcome of this issue rests entirely in the hands of these 42 Representatives, 41 Democrats and 1 Republican.