Pelosi Continues to Deny Vote on Taxpayer-Funded Abortion

Randy Pate / July 28, 2009

Bart Stupak, Democratic representative from Michigan, stated in an interview last week that Democratic leadership in the House has blocked all amendments to spending bills that would ban federal funding for abortion. “We are not even allowed to offer the amendment on the floor. And there are members who are not pro-life, who are pro-choice, but who think it is wrong of leadership to deny me and others the opportunity to express our judgment on this issue,” Stupak said in the CBS News interview.

Stupak, a member of the Blue Dog Coalition claimed that a “minimum of 39” Democrats would vote against any health reform bill that did not contain specific language excluding abortion from public funding. Earlier, Stupak and eighteen other pro-life Democrats sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) saying that “plans to mandate coverage for abortion either directly or indirectly is [sic] unacceptable.” (more…)