Is Pelosi Betting The House On Abortion?

Pelosi Meets With Female Members; Abortion Not Discussed
Abortion provisions in the Health Care bill were not discussed during a hastily called Wednesday morning meeting between Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and female Democratic Members. Instead, Pelosi ran through talking points on how Health Care reform benefits women, according to lawmakers who attended the meeting. Pelosi called the female-Members-only meeting Tuesday evening but didn’t tell lawmakers what the session would be about until they arrived — a move that fueled speculation...

ObamaCare is Tyranny, Not Legislation
Obama, Reid and Pelosi have learned nothing from history; they are as blind to their own tyranny as were King George and the British Parliament. They show no comprehension of the moral outrage that will ignite in this country if they ram through ObamaCare, a bill that requires taxpayer funding for Abortion, usurps individual rights to choose their own personal Health Care options, and saddles the nation with a growing flood of Debt which will drown our children and grandchildren. Last Friday...

Did Pelosi Exclude Pro-Life Congresswomen From Meeting?
According to Thomas Peters , Nancy Pelosi's emergency meeting this morning with the female Democratic House members was called after she met with Bart Stupak yesterday, and Stupak "didn't cave to her demands." I haven't been able to confirm whether Stupak met with Pelosi, but it's pretty clear that the speaker is trying to come up with a deal on Abortion. There's been chatter on Capitol Hill today that Pelosi excluded Pro-Life women from a meeting this morning, and a staffer for Pro-Life...

Women's Meeting
Roll Call has just reported that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has asked all female Democratic members of Congress “to attend a hastily called meeting Wednesday morning.” She hasn’t said what the meeting is about, but presumably it concerns passage of the Health-care bill. At a guess, it may be the meeting where she admits that she doesn’t have the votes for the bill without an Abortion ban to lure in Bart Stupak’s coalition. At least I hope that’s what...

What else is in Pelosi’s recession rescue toolbag?
As you’ve all heard, Nancy Pelosi defended contraception funding in the Democrats’ Stimulus bill over the weekend. Abortion cuts costs : Stephanopoulos: Hundreds of millions of dollars to expand family planning services. How is that Stimulus? Pelosi: Well, the family planning services reduce cost. They reduce cost. The states are in terrible fiscal Budget crises now and part of what we do for children’s health, education and some of those elements are to help the states meet...

The abortion debate is just a mix-up?
Well, this is a relief. According to my colleague Ruth Marcus , the whole Pelosi-doesn't-have-the-votes-for-health-care-reform-thing is just a big misunderstanding. If only Pro-Life Democrats such as Bart Stupak and the Catholic Bishops actually read the House and Senate Health-care reform bills, they would find them practically identical on Abortion. Professor Timothy Jost of Washington and Lee University says so. In fact, passage of the Senate bill would be a Pro-Life victory, likely to...