Abortion foes ‘stunned' (by Nelson D-Ne vote on health care)

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Omaha World Herald

By Joseph Morton

WASHINGTON — By declaring he will vote for the Senate health care bill, Ben Nelson touched off a firestorm of criticism Saturday on abortion.

Nebraska Right to Life said it had been “betrayed'' by the Nebraska Democrat, long an abortion opponent, who agreed to support compromise language on abortion.

His home-state colleague, Republican Mike Johanns, said he was “stunned and incredibly disappointed'' by Nelson's decision. And the chairman of the Nebraska Republican Party, Mark Fahleson, vowed that it was the “death knell'' for Nelson's political career.

Nelson said the outcry was over what amounted to a distinction without a difference on abortion.

Read more: http://www.omaha.com/article/20091220/NEWS01/712209910

[Posteritatis]

1. "Abortion Foes Stunned" - Ahhh, headlines with multiple possible interpretations.. (nt)

[BrklynLiberal]

3. LOL. I hope it was done with tasers.

[johnfunk]

6. I'm with Brooklyn Liberal, would rather be stunning them with tasers...

... as they stand in a puddle of salt water outside a women's health center in freezing rain.

:evilgrin:

[fl_dem]

19. I like the way you think n/t

[LiberalFighter]

21. Better to wrap them with electric fence and then turn the power on.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

24. Ooooo, me too. Especially the craziest ones, those who think one-celled beings have souls.

These are truly toxic.

[WriteDown]

31. The trick is figuring out how many cells make a soul....

:)

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

32. Well, first they have to form a functioning neocortex. -nt

[WriteDown]

34. That does help.

:)

[roguevalley]

26. they needed to give him cash. no credit cards for Our Ben, poor dears.

[girl gone mad]

2. lol..

Nice to see that blue dogs who vote for this POS are going to pay a steep political price, too.

[Downwinder]

4. Just taking care of business. n/t

[Loudmxr]

5. They won't be happy until abortion is criminalized.

[johnfunk]

7. Their biggest supporters are the Future Backalley Abortionists of America

[DuckyCase]

18. Don't forget about coat-hanger makers.

[KakistocracyHater]

15. they won' be happy until ALL birth control is outlawed

*

[LiberalFighter]

22. I bet their mothers, wives and daughters had at least one abortion.

Oh, I forgot their current girl friends that were forced to have an abortion.

[Odin2005]

29. They won't be happy until using birth control is criminalized

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

33. They won't be happy until SEX is criminalized.

[debbierlus]

8. Nice Main Stream Media spin....Karl Rove would be beaming with pride

Nelson, the fucker who inserted language into the senate bill to stop insurance companies from offering abortion services, if they participated in the exchange and reduced the ability of women to gain insurance for abortion procedures and coverage....

He is now the guy who took on opposition.

Whatever.

[McCamy Taylor]

9. Insurers LOVE abortion. It saves them so much money. Their man, Nelson, was never

seriously gonna restrict insurance companies ability to encourage women to terminate their pregnancies.

As more young women contemplating pregnancy get private insurance (as opposed to the Medicaid they now use) look for insurers to have no- copay abortions...vs. $2500-5000 deductible obstetric care.

Right to Life never even had a chance.

[silverweb]

27. Then why don't insurers love birth control?

Why aren't they rushing to offer coverage for all contraceptives, rather than fighting to not cover them?

Wouldn't that save them even more money vs obstetric care? :shrug:

[lib_wit_it]

10. Well, I'm stunned that the so-called Right to Lifers don't give a fuck if thousands die due to lack

of or lousy health care. Fuck those pea-brained zygote worshipers.

[lapfog_1]

11. Giddy maybe, but stunned?

His language virtually guarantees that no insurance money, much less federal money, will ever go to pay for abortions.

I should think that they are jumping up an down for joy.

[Turbineguy]

12. I have to wonder.

If nobody got an abortion, for a variety of personal reasons, but abortions were still legal, would not that amount to the same thing as what these people want?

Like make birth control methods readily available along with education in the use there of.

[saigon68]

17. Those Church Bishop Child Sodomizers don't like birth control either

according to them, women are tramps who deserve the punishment of pregnancy.

[SoxFan]

20. Gratuitous anti-Catholic flame-bait

Tone it down.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

25. Anti-Catholic flame-bait? Maybe. Gratuitous? Hardly.

There's, you know, precedent.

[booley]

40. Nope

Because to too many "pro-lifers", contraception is the same as abortion.

and telling kids about sex will mean they will all go out and have sex with anything that moves. (because clearly teen age hormones don't' activate until they go to sex ed class)

:crazy:

Yes there are people against abortion but ok with contraception. But they seem to be a shrinking minority.

[kiranon]

13. I'll believe it when I see his vote and not a moment before.

[wtmusic]

14. You have to hand it to Ben this time.

This could cost him his Senate seat, but he done the right thing.

[sabrina 1]

16. How did he do the right thing? He stopped millions of Americans

from getting coverage they badly needed. And as far as I know, he worked hard and succeeded to make sure women cannot be covered by public money when they get an abortion. He got what he wanted. He was serving two masters, neither of them the American people. His Insurance Industry buddies were thrilled with him and they are his real masters. The right-to-lifers aren't as happy, but when it's a choice between those groups, Ben is with the Private Insurance Ind. Once he scored for them, the game was over for him.

[still_one]

23. stunned. The republican party of lies and hate is stunned. GOOD /nt

[Dogmudgeon]

28. Stunned ... still pinin' for the Vatican fjords

:evilgrin:

--d!

[Odin2005]

30. Why the hell are we trying to "compromise" with these fuckers?

[yellowcanine]

35. I an stunned that they are stunned. Elections matter comrades.

Ben Nelson is a Democratic Senator even if he doesn't always act the part. Live with it or elect a Republican if you can.

[damntexdem]

36. Don't they know that Sen. Noisome has to be bribed big time?

As to their being 'stunned': ;-) OL

[Arkana]

37. I'm laughing like Ricky Ricardo over here.

[yurbud]

38. yep--he maneuvered the bill into what the insurance companies wanted

[JerseygirlCT]

39. Good. I hope he gets hit coming and going on this one. nt

[NJCher]

41. what it's like out there

I know a bit about this state, having fled it in my early years because it is so back-asswards I couldn't tolerate living there another second.

Out in the hinterlands, you will drive and drive and drive and drive and drive forever without seeing much of anything BUT anti-abortion billboards. Yes, home-constructed ones, too, with awkwardly drawn pictures of vaginas with fetuses in them. Usually they use red paint for these and the message is always some imagined cry from the fetus about letting him/her live.

There's a brain drain out of that state and the midwest in general that has left the remaining population about 10 IQ points below the coasts.


Cher

[No Elephants]

42. Call them what they are: anti-choice. No one is pro-abortion, so "anti-abortion" is

not the correct term for these control freaks.

[marshall]

43. Stunned? They ain't seen nothin' yet!

It's a new world, baby!