Excutive Order is called symbolic by Planned Parenthood: Stupak wanted cover

 This pretty much tells it all. When Jill Stanek ends with Thanks Bart Stupak, you foolish man she sums up my sentiments. I wanted to believe he was a man of principle. As it turns out he was a politician. He surely knew that his executive order was not binding and that any challenge by PP would send it toppling....BHO is clever and knew just how to word it with a wink and a nod to PP who with their friends at ACLU would challenge it and  throw it out. Then BHO and Stupak could say oh well we tried.

The end result.....our tax money for abortions. I wonder where the Manhattan Declaration will come in here. Hard to see anything good coming out of today. Stupak even said that they did not need his vote to pass but he gave it to them anyway.

 

March 22, 2010

Jillstanek.com

Planned Parenthood: Healthcare passage will "significantly increase access to reproductive health care"; exec order "a symbolic gesture"

Now it all comes out. It didn't take long for Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards to revel in PP's financial gain from passage of healthcare in a Planned Parenthood statement just released. Note also Richards' dismissal of Obama's executive order....

For more than a year, PP has worked tirelessly for a health care reform bill that would fix our broken health care system, strengthen women's health, and achieve quality, affordable health care for all Americans.

Today, monumental progress was made toward achieving these goals with the passage of historic health care reform legislation by the U.S. House of Representatives, despite a symbolic gesture, in the form of an Executive Order, to anti-choice Congressman Bart Stupak (D-MI), which has diverted attention from the central goal of health care reform - controlling costs and extending coverage.
As a trusted health care provider to millions of women and families across the country, Planned Parenthood applauds the fact that this legislation would extend health care coverage, including family planning, to tens of millions of women and families, guarantee access to affordable life-saving screenings for cervical and breast cancer and other serious health problems, protect women against gender discrimination by private insurers, end the practice of dropping coverage because of pre-existing conditions, and significantly increase access to reproductive health care.
The proposal also includes a commonsense provision to expand family planning under Medicaid, which would significantly increase access to essential preventive health care for millions of women....
Nonetheless, we regret that a pro-choice president of a pro-choice nation was forced to sign an Executive Order that further codifies the proposed anti-choice language in the health care reform bill, originally proposed by Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska.
What the president's executive order did not do is include the complete and total ban on private health insurance coverage for abortion that Congressman Bart Stupak (D-MI) had insisted upon. So while we regret that this proposed Executive Order has given the imprimatur of the president to Senator Nelson's language, it is critically important to note that it does not include the Stupak abortion ban.

Thanks, Bart Stupak, you foolish man.