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Watching pro-life Democrat Rep. Bart Stupak these past few months, I can't help wishing that the late Pennsylvania governor Robert Casey could shake his hand.
Stupak is a pivotal hero or villain of the health-care-reform debate in Washington, depending on your position on abortion and religious liberty. In round one of the battle, the Michigan congressman inserted valuable prohibitions and protections into the House of Representatives health bill. In round two, though, the White House and House Democratic leadership decided to ignore him, assuming either that he was bluffing about how many members he had on his side or that they...
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It is plain that Mr. Stupak would sell out the concepts of limited government and the free market, that he would go along with the unAmerican accretion of power in the hands of an unelected bureaucracy, so long as he got his precious "language" saying that federal money would not be directly used to pay for abortions. Abortions would still be legal, babies would still die and America would be radically transformed - but this myopic moral imbecile would be OK with all that as long as he got the right wording in a 2,000 page bill.
And if Mr. Stupak is re-elected in 2010, and the Democrats manage somehow to...