Posts Tagged With Health Care Summit

  • Now You See It - Now You Don't

    By Matt Lockett

    In yesterday's Health Care Summit, pretty much everyone avoided the 800 pound gorilla in the room–ABORTION. Towards the end House Minority Leader John Boehner did bring up the issue of abortion which President Obama quickly dismissed as talking points and untrue. In her closing statements, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi also took the opportunity to go after Boehner's abortion statement claiming that the White House's health care bill does not fund abortion.

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  • A Few Thoughts From Today's Silent Siege

    By Ian Kelly

    I wanted to give you just a few thoughts from today's Siege of the Health Care Summit. We saw between 60 - 70 people show up for the Silent Siege and because of the limitations of the location the police allowed us to stand in we looked like a much bigger number. We were around 200 feet away from the Blair House which is where the Summit was going on.

    We were asked to move several times because of the need for security but were always allowed to come back to our "spot". The moving was a bit distracting but we took it in stride as we simply stood on the adjacent street corner and continued to pray. But enough about logistics -- let's get down to the nitty-gritty...

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  • Rep. Bart Stupak: Current Abortion Language Is Unacceptable

    By Ian Kelly

    Rep. Bart Stupak has released a statement concerning the President's Health Care plan:

    ”I was pleased to see that President Obama’s health care proposal did not include several of the sweetheart deals provided to select states in the Senate bill.  Unfortunately, the President's proposal encompasses the Senate language allowing public funding of abortion...

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  • White Houses Releases New Healthcare Plan

    By Ian Kelly

    As was rumored, President Obama has released his own Heath Care plan ahead of the Health Care Summit this Thursday. The plan went live on the White House website at 10 am and can read here.

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