"There Is No Guarantees" : Moral Outcry

"There Is No Guarantees"

By Ian Kelly • March 11, 2010 03:03 PM

The Daily Caller reports:

Two pro-life House Democrats did not sound optimistic Thursday about the prospects for reaching a compromise on abortion language in the health care bill.

Rep. Bart Stupak, mobbed by reporters on his way into a meeting of House Democrats to examine parts of the bill, was asked if he will require a guarantee that the Senate fix the language if the House passes it.

“There is no guarantees in this town,” Stupak said.

Rep. Daniel Lipinski, the Illinois Democrat who is part of Stupak’s dozen pro-lifers, sounded even less optimistic.

Lipinski said he did not think abortion could be fixed in a reconciliation piece of legislation, which is restricted to budgetary matters. And he said that if there is not a guarantee that the Senate will fix it in a separate bill, he is a firm no.

Months ago Pelosi did not have the votes to pass health care because of the exact same situation she is in now. Thus, in the last possible moment she conceded to pro-life democrats demands.

Acting like she has the votes to pass this legislation now, without the pro-life votes, is a rapidly fading smokescreen.

Bottom line: Ms. Pelosi must hammer out a deal with Bart Stupak and his pro-life coalition or this bill is DOA.

I like how CFP says it:

It didn’t exactly take Nostradamus to predict that some sort of accommodation between Stupak and his pro-life supporters and the Senate would be needed. However, Democrats being Democrats disregarded the necessity of compromise and assumed that they could just steamroll the House on this issue.

It is now becoming clear that the Senate reached too far. If only they had agreed to ban the use of federal funds for abortions, health care reform would be a reality.

Will Pelosi give in to demands? Sound off in the comment

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Ian Kelly is the "arm chair pundit" at Moral Outcry. He has worked full time for Bound4LIFE since 2007. His other responsibilities include local chapter development and new media communications. Besides being a political junkie, he enjoys history, sci-fi, super heroes and grilling.

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Christina Martin is the director of Bound4Life Atlanta and an intercessory missionary at the International House of Prayer Atlanta. For the past 4 years Christina has given herself to the occupation of intercession. It’s her full time job to stand before heaven and earth, God and man, asking for mercy and crying out for truth. She prays, God hears, He moves, She is happy.

Christina is committed to fighting for the unborn. She feels for them because she herself had an appointment to die. Literally. 28 years ago her mother was sitting in a hospital room, waiting for the abortion doctor to call her into his office. An elderly black janitor saw her mom crying and asked her one question “Do you want to have this baby”? Her mom said yes, and the rest was history. She walked out of that clinic with hope in her heart and Christina still safely in her womb.

While in D.C God gave Christina a burden for the African-American community. She was shocked to find out how her race has been targeted by Planned Parenthood from the start of their organization. Christina is convinced she will see Roe v. Wade overturned and abortion end in her lifetime.
Ian Kelly is the "arm chair pundit" at Moral Outcry. He has worked full time for Bound4LIFE since 2007. His other responsibilities include local chapter development and new media communications. Besides being a political junkie, he enjoys history, sci-fi, super heroes and grilling.
Jess Clark divides her time between writing, breaking up fights over Buzz Lightyear, and traveling with a missionary rock and roll band. She and her husband Richy are the parents of 3 small-ish children and are in the process of adopting a 4th.
Kaitlin comes from a family with a long history of pro-life activism having had to bail her father out of jail more than 50 times for efforts to protect the unborn and free speech. She's only been arrested herself on two occasions, but that's enough for street cred. Kaitlin captures the voice of a young generation desperately trying to reconcile Biblical truths with practical application in culture. In fact, she IS the voice of Bound4LIFE videos like "The Numbers Don't Lie" and "Houston, Now Is The Time."
Matt is a husband and proud father of four children. He's a full-time missionary serving as the Director of Bound4LIFE and the Justice House of Prayer DC. Formerly he had a career in advertising and marketing. Periodically he really wishes he had paid more attention in Government class.
Susan Tyrrell leads Bound4LIFE in Gadsden, AL and works with prayer ministries in the state. She completed her doctorate this year in educational psychology from Texas A&M University, and she teaches college English to support her prayer habit.
Tiffani Edwards works with a pregnancy resource center in Arizona and is in leadership over the Phoenix House of Prayer. Before living in AZ she was on staff with the Justice House of Prayer in Washington, D.C. for almost 4 years. It was while being in D.C. that her passion for governmental intercession and the ending of abortion was birthed.

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