|
Published: January 18, 2010
“Only an accounting procedure”
Boxer admits Senate’s ‘abortion compromise’ nothing more than legislative sleight of hand
 Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-California, has admitted to a national news agency that the so-called abortion compromise in the U.S. Senate’s proposed healthcare bill will actually do nothing to stop federal funding of abortions and amounts to nothing more than a clever accounting trick.
Boxer, who played a prominent role in brokering the ‘compromise’ in behind-closed-doors meetings with Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nevada, and Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Nebraska (who insisted on the abortion provision to obtain his yes vote), came under withering attacks from her longtime pro-abortion supporters following the inclusion of the Nelson provision.
Boxer, who has received a 100% approval rating from groups like NARAL and Planned Parenthood year after year since her election to the Senate in 1992, had been a featured speaker at an abortion-rights rally in Washington, D.C., just weeks before she became involved in the ‘abortion compromise.” Following her decision to agree to the Nelson language, groups like the National Organization for Women, the Congressional Pro-Choice Caucus and the National Institute for Reproductive Health issued blistering criticism of the senator. National Institute for Reproductive Health president Kelli Conlin said the Senate bill “has sold out women” and described its as “"unconscionable."
But not to worry, Boxer told McClatchy News Service. Boxer, reported McClatchy, “said it's only an ‘accounting procedure’ that will do nothing to restrict [abortion] coverage.”
A committee made up of House and Senate members is scheduled to begin meetings soon to try to iron out differences in the two bills. The bill passed by the House contains the Stupak Amendment, which imposes ironclad restrictions on federal funding of abortions. Political observers have predicted the House abortion provisions will be stripped from the final bill because it otherwise would not pass the Senate.
In the meantime, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops has urged all Catholics to contact their federal legislators urging them to adopt a bill with strong prohibitions on government-funded abortions. All parishes in the US have been asked by the bishops to include an insert in their parish bulletins regarding the issue.
“As Congress negotiates a final health care bill, the insert encourages Catholics to contact their Senators and Representatives, urging them to keep longstanding restrictions against federal funding of abortion and full conscience protection in the legislation. If these criteria are not met, Catholics are asked to urge Congress to oppose the final bill,” said a Jan. 11 USCCB press release.
Posted Monday, January 18, 2010 8:26 AM By Eric
I commend the bishops for standing up to the pro-aborts but again they are not seeing the whole picture; euthanasia, rationing aid, even denying aid, to the sick, and yes abortion. They must push for the defeat of this socialist health care bill in its entirety and stop promoting the notion that this bill, minus abortion funding, is some great advance in social justice. And whatever happened to the fact that stealing from one to give to another is wrong; Thou Shalt Not Steal!
|
Posted Monday, January 18, 2010 8:28 AM By John
Boxer, the geriatric stooge for Henry Waxman and PP.
|
Posted Monday, January 18, 2010 10:14 AM By Camille
The Obama Administration mantra seems to be Make 'em an offer they can't refuse. He has bought the auto industry, the banking and commerce industry, he is in the process of buying the education establishment and, now, his biggest purchase will be the Catholic Church and all the faithful. Support for any part of universal health care will place individuals directly under the control of a Communitarian Government. Where's Moses and the Red Sea when we need them?
|
Posted Monday, January 18, 2010 11:08 AM By Central Valley
California could have a pro-life senator. Maybe in November Boxer will go the way of Camelot. Chuck DeVore is a pro-life christian candidate for U.S. Senate.
|
Posted Monday, January 18, 2010 2:12 PM By Peggy
To see what Obama is really trying to do, watch You Tube and the Obama "Catholic Plan". It might be educational for the USCCB to watch this, also. Darn that Catholic Church -- it is getting in the way of the Socialist Agenda...
|
Posted Monday, January 18, 2010 2:18 PM By NOBOXERFAN
It would be great if Chuck Devore had a fighting chance to KO Boxer but let's be real here. Boxer and the Dems have a whole state full of their fanatical lackeys, ACORN flunkies and countless unauthorized voters who will be hitting the polls in November. Not to mention the California Dem sleeze machine that has historically slimed every opponent with integrity and good moral standing, for many decades now. If you want to show Boxer the door you're going to have to pull some pages out of the Dem playbook and fight fire with fire as much as you can - within the constraints of Catholic moral values. I wish you all success as I will be voting in my new home state to dump Harry Reid! With Our Lord's guidance and blessing we will fire both of them soon!
|
Posted Monday, January 18, 2010 3:29 PM By Lisa
A plea to those who live California alongside me:
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE...VOTE THIS WOMAN OUT OF OFFICE!!!!
I don't understand how she was ever elected in the first place or how she has managed to stay as long as she has. She's like a toe fungus! Women(and men) like Boxer, Pelosi, and their ilk make it really hard to accept that everyone is created in the image of God...Evil is real, the devil does exist. Boxer is heading towards a real and eternal Hell.
|
Posted Monday, January 18, 2010 5:36 PM By Kenneth M. Fisher
I served in the California Young Democrats at the same time Waxman did, he is not that hard to defeat when you have your facts, but he cannot be trusted at all, especially when it comes to morals!
I also served on the Orange County Republican Central Committee with Chuch Devore, and I can absolutely confirm that he is a devout christian and a strong pro-lifer. He is true to his beliefs, something that is sadly missing in most politicians.
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
|
Posted Monday, January 18, 2010 5:47 PM By JLS
Central Valley, the people who win senate races do so by means of manipulating the voting public through the media. No way a prolife candidate is going to beat that system. Unless the voting public comes to its senses (likely by the grace of God), we're not going to see a change in govt. The dems do evil stuff and the republicans pave the road for them.
|
Posted Monday, January 18, 2010 6:25 PM By JLS
The problem as I see it in electing a good man such as Chuck Devore is the republican party, which yanked the electioneering campaign out from under Bob Dornan, a radically potent voice for saving unborn babies from abortion. So, it is not the democrats that Devore will have to battle but the republicans. I kind of see this between the lines in Kenneth's post where he tells of an easy to beat Waxman and a solidly moral man Devore. It is not morals that wins elections too often but money and manipulation of hypnosis addicted voters.
|
Posted Monday, January 18, 2010 11:28 PM By BeauZeau
So the USCCB has urged all the Catholic parishes to put an insert into parish bulletins to write their Congresspeople to keep abortion funding out of healthcare. Don't make me laugh, how many of the dumbed down people in the pews are going to follow up on that, assuming the inserts even get into the bulletins? And if by some miracle they did, you think the Diane Watsons, the Xavier Becerras, Boxer and Feinstein are going to listen to them? No, vote against the healthcare bill as it stands should be the message, and every Ordinary in the country should personally proclaim it in an editorial on the front page of their diocesan weeklies. And pray to the holy Blessed Virgin Mary to intercede with her Beloved Son to slapdown this hideous scheme to mainline abortion.
|
Posted Tuesday, January 19, 2010 12:53 AM By 1abqdad
I thank GOD every day that I left CA and moved to New Mexico... Wait, our situation is NOT much better! LOL! Enjoy the ride everyone!
|
Posted Tuesday, January 19, 2010 12:03 PM By ssoldie
The USCCB are reaping what they have been sowing for 37 years, thier silence has been deafening.
|
Posted Friday, January 22, 2010 11:47 PM By Kenneth M. Fisher
Catholics should never vote by Party but by what the candidate stands for and against! But when one Party is known as the death Party, it's candidates are almost always of that persuasion.
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
|
Posted Saturday, January 23, 2010 10:10 AM By JLS
Lot of silence images going around: The Sounds of Silence, a poetic song by Simon and Garfunkel about the time the bishops became silent, and then the recent movie Silence of the Lambs with Kevin Costner about what I don't know probably homosexuality, and the continued silence of so many bishops ... so silent in fact that the noise of their morals errors is deafening. I wonder if the world awaits a "complete" bishop, one who is body, soul, mind and heart a vicar of Christ. What about the rise of the Church from Her dungeon of fear and confusion into the light of day? Isn't there some movie or something called Silent No More? I'd say that the silence of Heaven is only silence because of the noise of Hell.
|
© California Catholic Daily 2010. All Rights Reserved.
|