U.S. Rep. Dan Lipinski of Illinois, one of only three House Democrats to turn against the health care bill based on its abortion funding, said that it was “extremely difficult” to contradict the party bosses, and that many of his own party now want him gone because of the strength of his pro-life conviction. “It was very difficult for me, what I went through with the health care bill. But there was never any question for me what I was going to do. I was not going to support a bill that provided taxpayer funding of abortion.”
In March of last year, Lipinski joined Marion Berry of Arkansas and Stephen Lynch of Massachusetts as the only Democrats to change their vote from “yes” to “no” over the lack of Hyde-like restrictions barring taxpayer funding of abortion. Berry and Lipinski also supported a motion to recommit the bill back to the Senate with the Stupak ban included.
Some pro-life Democrats, who had resisted supporting the bill until the eleventh hour, claimed that President Obama’s Executive Order placing Hyde-amendment restrictions on the bill provided adequate protection. However, like Lipinski, top pro-life groups disagreed and continued to vehemently oppose the bill. LifeSiteNews
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